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George Louis Teissier to Hans Sloane – April 8, 1720
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Date: April 8, 1720
Author: George Louis Teissier
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 318
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[fol. 318]
Sr.
There being an order of the College of Physician for my admission as fellow on monday next i thought it my duty to come and pay you my respects I remain Sr. Your most humble and obedient servant GL Teissier
April 8 1720
George Louis Teissier (d. 1742) was a German-born physician. He was physician to George I and George II as well as Westminster Hospital from 1728 to 1733. He also worked at St George’s Hospital and to Chelsea Hospital. Teissier was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1725 (https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27teissier%27%29).
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Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – January 16, 1710
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Date: January 16, 1710
Author: Richard Middleton Massey
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 229-230
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Curiosity Reports, Library, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Crowland Abbey, History, Manuscripts, Museums, Poetry, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford
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Date (as written)
January 16, 1710
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Wisbech
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Others mentioned
Mr Cooper Jacob Bobart
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Patients mentioned
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Massey sends his ‘old woman’. If this does not please Sloane he can send her to the ‘Museum at Oxford’. Massey purchased a ‘Quarto vellum MS’ about ‘the British Kings’ and a manuscript collection of ‘old Monkish Poetry’. He came across a collection of ’20 MS of a famous Physitian’ named ‘Francius a German he was president of Peterhouse in Cambridge’.
Richard Middleton Massey (1678-1743) attended Brasenose College, Oxford but left before obtaining a degree. In 1706 he was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and settled in Wisbech where he practiced medicine. Massey was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. He compiled the catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Physicians in 1727 (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2969).
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Johannes Phillipus Breynius to Hans Sloane – November 24 1734
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Date: November 24 1734
Author: Johannes Phillipus Breynius
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 321
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Breynius writes to Sloane thanking him for the comforting letter he received during such a turbulent time. He also thanks him for Catesby’s 6th part of Natural History and some transactions. He mentions the death of Mr. Hampton and his History of Plants and other Natural History things. And also the death of Mr. Linik. He would like a copy of Dr. Martin’s Historia Plantarum, garden trees of London, and Dr. Blair’s Pharmaco botanologie, Petivers Pterigraptia Americana.
He asks Sloane to send anything he has to Mr. Gibson in London and promises to send him some seeds from his garden soon.
Johann Philipp Breyne (1680-1764) German botanist, palaeontologist, zoologist, entomologist, and Fellow of the Royal Society (1703).
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – July 29, 1727
Item info
Date: July 29, 1727
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 12-13
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Government, Library, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Social, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Books, History, Japan, Royal Family
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Date (as written)
July 29, 1727
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Hannover
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Others mentioned
George I Baron de Goert Monsieur Bapteme [?] Monsieur de Mausberg George II Johann Jakob Scheuchzer Mr Hattorf Philip Henry Zollman Engelbert Kaempfer
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Patients mentioned
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Steigertahl was consoled by Sloane’s letter, which lamented the death of George I. He writes that Sloane must be pleased to be so close to the new King, George II. Steigertahl believes his health will prevent him from returning to England, making it impossible to serve George II. For this reason he has withdrawn his service to the Crown. Steigertahl sends his regards to Sloane and thanks him for sending the Philosophical Transactions. Messieurs De Gort and De Mausberg send their compliments. A gentleman by the name of ‘Bapteme[?]’ is to be put on the Royal Society’s list. Sloane is to send regards to Dr Scheuchzer and Mr Matheson of Hamburg, the latter being responsible for the German edition of the late Engelbert Kaempfer’s ‘Histoire du Japan’. Mr Zollman mentioned the book to Steigertahl in his letter. Mr Schlüter is to deliver books to Sloane from Hattorf’s library in Steigertahl’s absence.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).
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Christian Friedrich Weichmann to Hans Sloane – June 1, 1728
Item info
Date: June 1, 1728
Author: Christian Friedrich Weichmann
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: f. 178
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[fol. 178] Sir, As Mr. derham has done me the honour to write to you in my Behalf I take the liberty to inquire by this about what an Hour I may have leave to wait upon you, and at the same Time to make a small Present to the Royal Society’s Library of the first Volume of a Book of mine, being an Imitation of your famous Spectator and Guardian and of a Medal coin’d in honour of the same Book, whose Title Page shows the draft of it. I shall not fail, to send the others two Volumes belonging to it as soon as the [sic] come from the Press, and take leave to assure you, that I am and ever shall be with all Respect imaginable Sir, Your most humble and most obedient servant, CF Weichmann London, June 1 1728.
Christian Friedrich Weichmann (1698-1770) was a German jurist, poet, and journalist. He received his BCL at Oxford and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society during a visit to England in 1728. Weichmann was a Privy Councillor to the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneberg (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Friedrich_Weichmann).
Posted on August 24, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Jacob Theodor Klein, 1685 – 1759, was a German jurist, historian, botanist, zoologist, mathematician and diplomat in service of Polish King August II. He was also a member of the Royal Society and the Danzig Research Society.
Reference:
Jacob Theodor Klein to Hans Sloane, 1734-11-10, Sloane MS 4053, f. 310, British Library, London
Jacob Theodor Klein, Wikipedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Theodor_Klein, accessed 24/08/17]
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – October 6, 1730
Item info
Date: October 6, 1730
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 118-119
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Social
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Subjects
Deaths, Fellowship, History, Japan, Publishing, Translations
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Date (as written)
October 6, 1730
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Hannover
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Others mentioned
Philip Henry Zollman J.H. Kaempfer Engelbert Kaempfer
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Patients mentioned
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The paper accompanying the letter was written by Dr Weidler of Wittenburg. Steigertahl thanks Sloane for ‘la belle figure de l’Aloë’ that came with the Philosophical Transactions. Schlüter sends his compliments and thanks Sloane for the list of old books. Steigertahl received a letter from Dr Kämpfer informing him of the death of Dr Scheuchzer and the absence of Zollman. There is a printer at Lemgo who printed ‘les amoenitates’ of the late Dr Kämpfer and wants to publish the ‘Histoire de Japan’. The German manuscripts need to be procured. Dr Weidler hopes to be admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).
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Johannes Phillipus Breynius to Hans Sloane – November 24 1734
Item info
Date: November 24 1734
Author: Johannes Phillipus Breynius
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 321
Original Page
Transcription
Breynius writes to Sloane thanking him for the comforting letter he received during such a turbulent time. He also thanks him for Catesby’s 6th part of Natural History and some transactions. He mentions the death of Mr. Hampton and his History of Plants and other Natural History things. And also the death of Mr. Linik. He would like a copy of Dr. Martin’s Historia Plantarum, garden trees of London, and Dr. Blair’s Pharmaco botanologie, Petivers Pterigraptia Americana.
He asks Sloane to send anything he has to Mr. Gibson in London and promises to send him some seeds from his garden soon.
Johann Philipp Breyne (1680-1764) German botanist, palaeontologist, zoologist, entomologist, and Fellow of the Royal Society (1703).
Posted on August 24, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Johann Christian Lehmann (1675 – 1739) was a German scientist and university teacher.
Lehmann studied medicine and natural sciences at the University of Leipzig and was promoted there. He was also professor of physics and medicine as well as several rectors of the university in Leipzig. He earned merit for the improvement of the Saxon salt works. In 1713, he became a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Reference:
Johann Christian Lehmann to Hans Sloane,Unknown Date, Sloane MS 4053, f. 312, British Library, London
Johann Christian Lehmann, Wikipedia, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Lehmann_(Naturwissenschaftler), accessed 24/08/17]
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Posted on August 18, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
August Sigmund Frobenius wrote letter 4205 to Sloane to thank him for several favours Sloane had given to him previously, and requests Sloane’s help in raising money to travel. He was a German-born scientist who worked in the laboratory of Ambrose Godfrey Hanckewitz, and produced ether.
He had an article published in 1729 on the subject of ether. It was titled “An Account of a Spiritus Vini Æthereus, Together with Several Experiments Tried” and was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the Royal Society’s scientific journal. He joined the Royal Society in 1730 but apart from these details not much is known about his life, including the date of his death which has been put at 1741, 42, and 43 in different sources.
Reference:
August Sigmund Frobenius to Hans Sloane, 1734-09-Monday, Sloane MS 4053, f. 266, British Library, London.
August Sigmund Frobenius, Wikipedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Sigmund_Frobenius, accessed 17/08/2017]
August Sigmund Frobenius, Fellow Details, The Royal Society, [https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27Frobenius%27%29, accessed 17/08/2017]
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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