Georg Balthasar Wohlfahrt

Georg Balthasar Wohlfahrt, also written Wohlfarth, was a German physician, born in Schweinfurt on 11 June 1607 and died there on 31 January 1674. His father Georg was a Protestant refugee from Styria and a surgeon who later sat on the Schweinfurt council. He trained in medicine under his father, served an apothecary apprenticeship in Kitzingen, studied from 1629 at Altdorf, Strasbourg and Basel, travelled in Switzerland and Italy and took his doctorate at Altdorf in 1634. He then practised in Schweinfurt. On 1 January 1652 he and the physicians Johann Michael Fehr, Georg Balthasar Metzger and Johann Lorenz Bausch founded the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, later the Leopoldina. The facts come from the German Wikipedia article.