Nationality German Role Physician | Name Werner Rolfinck Institutions University of Jena | |
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Born 15 November 1599
Hamburg ( 1599-11-15 ) Alma mater University of Wittenberg
University of Padua Doctoral students Augustin Heinrich Fasch
Georg Wolfgang Wedel
Balthasar Widmarcter Known for Study of chemical reactions and the biochemistry of metals Died May 6, 1673, Jena, Germany Education Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, University of Padua, University of Oxford Fields Medicine, Botany, Chemistry, Philosophy Doctoral advisor Daniel Sennert, Adriaan van den Spiegel | ||
Notable students Georg Wolfgang Wedel | ||
Werner Rolfink (15 November 1599 – 6 May 1673) was a German physician, scientist and botanist. He was a medical student in Leiden, Oxford, Paris, and Padua.
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Rolfink earned his master's degree at the University of Wittenberg under Daniel Sennert, and his MD in 1625 at the University of Padua under the guidance of Adriaan van den Spiegel.
In 1629, he became a professor at the University of Jena, where he rearranged and expanded the university's botanical garden (the Botanischer Garten Jena). His experimental research involved chemical reactions and the biochemistry of metals acquiring him the title of "director of chemical exercises". He rejected the view that other metals could be transformed into gold.
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