Johannes Andreas Schmitz
Johannes Andreas Schmitz was a Dutch physician and the third rector of the University of Harderwijk.Life
Schmitz studied medicine in Groningen, Leiden, and Angers. He served as personal physician to Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg, and as City Physician in Harderwijk. He became Professor of Medicine and rector of the University of Harderwijk. He married Gertrud Kumpsthoff and had a son Johann Dietrich Schmitz, who became mayor of Cleves, and a daughter Sophia.Works
Schmitz is known for his posthumous work Medicinae practicae compendium. Georgius Hornius' preface to this work mentions the deceased author's never-realized plan to publish a botanical work, Plantarum Velavicarum Historia.
