Question: Facts: - death place: prague - px|caption: '' iessenius a iessen olim vitenberg , nunc carolinae prag -lrb- d ae -rrb- acad -lrb- emiae -rrb- rector purpuratus '' . -lrb- a contemporary copperplate by matthaus merian , 1617 ominus -rrb- iohan -lrb- nes -rrb- - death date: june 21 , 1621 -lrb- aged 54 -rrb- - birth date: december 27 , 1566 - name: jan jesenius - image: jan jesenius.jpg - birth place: breslau - occupation: physician politician philosopher Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of jan jesenius .
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jan jesenius -lrb- also written as jessenius or '' jan jesensky '' in slovak or '' jeszenszky janos '' in hungarian ; december 27 , 1566 , breslau -- june 21 , 1621 , prague -rrb- was a slovak , polish , bohemian or german physician , politician and philosopher .he was from an old hungarian -lrb- magyar -rrb- noble family , house of jeszenszky .he presented himself in his own works as '' eques ungarus '' -lrb- '' '' hungarian knight '' '' -rrb- .he is renowned rather for his tragic fate than for his work in the field of anatomy and surgery .jesenius was born in breslau -lrb- wrocaw -rrb- , where he studied at the elisabeth gymnasium .from 1583 he studied at the university of wittenberg , from 1585 at the university of leipzig , and from 1588 at the university of padua .