Rudolph Goclenius the Younger

[1] As a student, Goclenius was a respondent to his father in a physical disputation and received his master's degree in 1591.

[2] After obtaining his medical degree in 1601, Goclenius became the first rector of the newly founded gymnasium in Büdingen[3] and a personal physician (archiatrus) to Wolfgang Ernst I, Count of Isenburg-Büdingen.

In 1608, he was appointed to the professorship of physics, astronomy and arithmetic at Marburg University.

His father wrote a poem for his funeral on 4 March 1621[4] As a physician he worked on cures against the plague.

Based on the hermetic concepts of Paracelsus he published 1608 the proposition of a "magnetic" cure to heal wounds: the application of the salve on the weapon should heal the wounds afflicted by the weapon.