Johann Bernhard von Fischer
Johann Bernhard von Fischer , ( pseudonym : Montan von Hinterbergen ; * July 28, 1685 in Lübeck ; † July 8, 1772 on the Hinterbergen estate near Riga ) was a German doctor and writer .
Life
Johann Bernhard von Fischer, born on July 28, 1685 in Lübeck, moved to Riga with his parents when he was two. He studied medicine at the Universities of Halle , Jena , Leiden and Amsterdam . He then went on trips to England and France .
As a result, Johann Bernhard von Fischer headed a doctor's practice in Riga from 1710 . In 1733 he was appointed second city physician . For this purpose, Tsarina Anna Johann Bernhard von Fischer called her personal physician , archiatrist and director of the Russian medical system. Johann Bernhard von Fischer, from Emperor Karl VI. Elevated to the rank of nobility, after Empress Elisabeth's accession to the throne, he refused the archiatric position offered to him and retired to his small country estate in Hinterbergen near Riga. On July 10, 1736, Johann Bernhard von Fischer , nicknamed Olympus II. , Was accepted as a member ( matriculation number 462 ) of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .
From this time on, Fischer wrote several medical and natural history writings, for example "On the causes of white hair in animals" . He also published a "Livonian Economic Book" as well as several treatises on rinderpest . In Saint Petersburg in 1739 he began work on the first anatomical atlas printed in Russia and published in 1744. In addition, Fischer described under the pseudonym Montan von Hinterbergen in his Alexandrian poem "General and own winter and summer pleasure with mixed physical and moral considerations" , published in 1745, based on the model of Barthold Heinrich Brocke's "Earthly Pleasure in God", the joys of his self-made Tusculum . His treatise on the advanced age of man, its stages, its illnesses and the means to get there, was published by Theodor Thomas Weichardt in 1777 after his death .
Johann Bernhard von Fischer died on July 8, 1772, three weeks before he was 87 years old on his Hinterbergen estate.
literature
- Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel: Historical-critical news from deceased scholars and their writings, p. 641 , 2nd part, 1755
- Maximilian von Heine . The Archiatrists of Russia . In: Medicinische Zeitung Russlands , Petersburg , 4th year (1847), pp. 229–230 (digitized version )
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 214 digitized
- GW Schrader: Biographical-literary lexicon of veterinarians of all times and countries, p. 132 , 1863
- Gero von Wilpert : German Baltic Literature History, p. 115 , C. Beck, 2005
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 425 .
Web links
- Member entry of Johann Bernhard von Fischer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Johann Bernhard von Fischer. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ^ Aloys Henning: Medical knowledge creation in Russia before 1800: The proportion of German-speaking doctors. In: Würzburger medical history reports 23, 2004, pp. 428–435; here: p. 430.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Johann Bernhard von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hinterbergen, Montan from; Olympus II |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1685 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1772 |
| Place of death | Hinterbergen estate near Riga |