Philipp Jakob Sachs

Philipp Jakob Sachs as depicted in Miscellanea Curiosa Medico-Physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum (1676)

Philipp Jakob Sachs^[1] (26 August 1627, Breslau- 7 January 1672, Breslau) was a German physician, naturalist, and editor of Ephemerides Academiae naturae curiosorum, the first ever learned journal in the field of medicine and natural history. He was a state physician in Breslau, and one of the founders of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum (Leopoldina).

His works include the 1665 Gammarologia, on crabs.

Notes

1. von Löwenheim, or Lewenhaimb, Lewenheimb

External links

• The Correspondence of Philipp Jakob Sachs von Löwenheim in EMLO
• J. Child Orthop. 2010 Apr;4(2):105-6. doi: 10.1007/s11832-009-0235-0. Epub 2010 January 12.
• Historical note: an analysis of a 17th-century illustration of a child with split hand/split foot malformation.
• Ohry A, Frydman M. In one of Philipp Jakob Sachs von Lewenhaimb's (1627-1672) books, one may find perhaps the first illustration of a child with the split hand/split foot malformation. A short historical note and some clinical genetic data are given.
• (German) Tagungsberichte (PDF), ahf-muenchen.de
• (German) univie.ac.at