Background
Beireis was born in Mühlhausen.
Beireis was born in Mühlhausen.
University of Helmstedt.
He was also a collector of curiosities who rescued some of Jacques de Vaucanson"s automata. He taught anatomy, medicine, surgery, chemistry, botany, natural history, pharmacy, mineralogy, metallurgy, agriculture, forestry, music, painting, and numismatics. Beireis was a student of Georg Erhardt Hamberger"s in Jena in 1753.
Beireis became a professor in 1759 without having obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree.
The degree was awarded subsequently for work done at Helmstadt under Lorenz Heister between 1756 and 1759. He died in Helmstedt.