Philipp Adolph Böhmer

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Philipp Adolph Böhmer

Philipp Adolph Böhmer (born August 26, 1711 in Halle , † October 30, 1789 in Berlin ) was a German professor of medicine , anatomist and obstetrician and personal physician to King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia .

origin

Philipp Adolph Böhmer belonged to the Böhmer / von Boehmer family of lawyers , which in the 18th and 19th centuries belonged to the so-called Pretty Families in Kurhannover and in the early Kingdom of Hanover . He was the son of Justus Henning Böhmer and Eleonore Rosine Stützing (1679–1739) and the brother of the legal scholars Georg Ludwig Böhmer , Johann Samuel Friedrich von Böhmer and Karl August von Böhmer .

Live and act

From 1732 Philipp Adolph Böhmer studied medicine with Friedrich Hoffmann and Johann Heinrich Schulze at the University of Halle , which was founded in 1694 and is now the Martin Luther University of Halle. After his doctorate, which he had completed at the same time as his older brother Georg Ludwig's doctorate in both rights, on January 29, 1738, he studied in Paris with Gregoire the Younger and then in Strasbourg . After his return to Germany in 1739, he initially took over both the office of city ​​physician in Eisleben and the appointment of personal physician at the court of Saxony-Weimar. Finally, in 1741, Böhmer was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the University of Halle as the successor to Johann Friedrich Cassebohm , and in 1769 was promoted to First Professor, Rector of the Medical Academy of this university and was twice Vice-Rector of the Alma Mater in 1756/57 and 1765/66 .

Due to his excellent performance, but perhaps also benefited by the good relations of his second wife, the divorced chamberlain Countess von Wartensleben, Phillip Adolph Böhmer was appointed his personal physician by King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia from 1787. Böhmer was only able to hold this position for less than two years, as he died in 1789. In addition to his anatomical studies and work, Philipp Adolph Böhmer was also practically and scientifically active in many areas of medicine, particularly in the field of gynecology . For example, he had written a remarkable treatise in the compendium of the English gynecologist Richard Manningham from 1746, in which he explained the use of the "Gregoire forceps " for the first time in Germany .

In 1744 Böhmer was elected to the Leopoldina ; in 1752 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. From 1755 he was an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

His grave is on Halle's Stadtgottesacker (arch 78).

family

House of the Böhmer family - Große Märkerstraße No. 5 in Halle an der Saale

Philipp Adolph Böhmer was first married to Johanna Dorothea Naumann (1718–1761), daughter of the judge Johann Christoph Naumann, with whom he had four children. In 1786 and 25 years after the death of his wife, Böhmer married Maria Sophie Caroline von Brandenstein (1739–1789), who divorced her husband, Chamberlain Friedrich Wilhelm von Wartensleben (1728–1798), in 1783. Philipp Adolph Böhmer and his family lived in the stately building inherited from his father at Grosse Märkerstrasse number 5 in Halle.

Works (selection)

  • Observationum anatomicarum rariorum fasciculus alter notabilia circa uterum humanum continens cum figuris ad vivum expressis . Halae Magdeburgicae: Apud Joannem Justinum Gebaverum, 1756.
  • De usu et praestantia forcipes Anglicanae in partu disticili , discussion of artistic abstetricariae compendium of Richard Manningham1746; First detailed description of the Gregoire forceps

Literature and Sources

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Pretty families. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 310.
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Philipp Adolph Böhmer. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed July 30, 2015 (in Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Böhmer, Philipp Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boehmer, Philipp Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German human medicine, professor of medicine and anatomy, personal physician
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1711
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1789
Place of death Berlin