Rudolph Goclenius the Younger

Rudolph Goclenius the Younger, born Rudolph Göckel in Wittenberg on 22 August 1572 and dead in Marburg on 3 March 1621, was a German physician and professor at Philipps University of Marburg. The eldest son of the Marburg professor Rudolph Goclenius, he enrolled at fifteen, took his master's degree in 1591 and his medical degree in 1601. He then became the first rector of the new gymnasium in Büdingen and personal physician to Count Wolfgang Ernst I of Isenburg-Büdingen. From 1608 he held the Marburg chair of physics, astronomy and arithmetic, followed by the chairs of medicine in 1611 and mathematics in 1612. He worked on cures for the plague and became famous for the weapon salve, or powder of sympathy, a Paracelsian proposal of 1608 that applying a salve to the weapon would heal the wound it caused. A lunar crater bears his name.