Adam Nietzki

Adam Nietzki (born August 10, 1714 in the Rhine in the Lötzen district in East Prussia ; † September 26, 1780 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German physician .

Life

Adam Nietzki was born as the second son of Landschöffen Bartholomäus Niecki and his wife Anna Maria Klotz-Niecki. From March 1733 he studied theology in Königsberg , but soon switched to medicine and completed his studies in Halle an der Saale in 1753 under the famous physician and temporary personal physician of the Prussian King Friedrich I , Friedrich Hoffmann , with a doctorate . In 1768 he became an associate professor of medicine in Altdorf and a full professor in Halle the following year. In the years 1779/80 Nietzki was prorector of the University of Halle .

Services

With his extensive work Elementa Patologiae Universae, Nietzki contributed significantly to the dissemination of the "physico-mathematical" theories of his teacher Friedrich Hoffmann. Through these theories, medicine was ground-breaking for the time on a physical-mechanical foundation. Furthermore, Nietzki rediscovered the ancient Egyptian art of embalming corpses.

Works

Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica Exponens Febris Malignae Casum Aliquem Perquam Notabilem Qvam Praeside Adamo Nietzki Pro Gradv Doctoris ; The XII. Ivlii AOR MDCCLXXVI Pvblice, Defendet Avctor Gottlieb Emanvel Heydrich, published: Halae Ad Salam Litteris Cvrtianis, 1776; Thesis: Medical dissertation, University of Halle, 1776
Elementa pathologiae universae , Curtius Verlag, Halle, 1766

Individual evidence

↑ August Hirsch (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of All Times and Nations, Vol. 4: Maack – Salzmann . 3rd edition Urban & Schwarzenberg Verlag, Munich 1962 (unchanged reprint of the Berlin edition 1884/88, 2nd edition 1929/35 reviewed and supplemented by Wilhelm Haberling , Franz Hübotter and Hermann Vierordt).

literature

August Hirsch: Nietzki, Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 692 f.

Web links

Works by and about Adam Nietzki in the German Digital Library

personal data
SURNAME	Nietzki, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic
DATE OF BIRTH	August 10, 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rhine , Lötzen district , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	September 26, 1780
Place of death	Halle (Saale)

[1] August Hirsch (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of All Times and Nations, Vol. 4: Maack – Salzmann . 3rd edition Urban & Schwarzenberg Verlag, Munich 1962 (unchanged reprint of the Berlin edition 1884/88, 2nd edition 1929/35 reviewed and supplemented by Wilhelm Haberling , Franz Hübotter and Hermann Vierordt).