[Anniversary 1980 of the history of the Faculty of Medicine Wittenberg (II): education and research during Christian Vater's (1651-1732) and Abraham Vater's (1684-1751) duration of office].

Fixed jubilees from the history of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Wittenberg gave rise to remember the work of some representative persons. We remind of the investigations of the hypophysis carried out by the professor in ordinary Konrad Viktor Schneider (1614-1680) who died 300 years age and of the clinical and theoretically significant achievements of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637). Christian Vater (1651-1732) and Abraham Vater (1684-1751) once more coin a profile of the medical science in the 18th century, whose details in teaching and research were to be illustrated in the present treatise.