Michael Ettmüller

Michael Ettmüller was a German physician, born in Leipzig in 1644, who died there in 1683. He studied at Leipzig and Wittenberg, travelled in Italy, France and England, and was called back to Leipzig in 1668. He joined the faculty of medicine in 1676 and was given the chair of botany, together with an extraordinary professorship of surgery and anatomy. He was a celebrated lecturer and wrote many tracts on medical and chemical subjects. His son Michael Ernst Ettmüller (1673 to 1732) edited his collected works, which appeared in 1708, and later held chairs of medicine, anatomy and surgery, physiology and pathology at Leipzig.