Adolf Brückner

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Adolf Friedrich Theodor Brückner (born November 29, 1744 in Neetzka , † April 21, 1823 in Neubrandenburg ) was a German physician , botanist and Low German writer .

Life

Adolf Brückner (No. 18 in the gender census ) was born as the son of the Protestant theologian and pastor Christoph (Adam) Brückner (1713–1786) and his wife, the pastor's daughter Sophia, née. Trendelenburg (1725-1759). He is one of the direct descendants of the important southeast Mecklenburg theologian and superintendent Theodor Trendelenburg (1696–1765). The Neubrandenburg theologian and man of letters Ernst (Theodor Johann) Brückner (1746-1805) was his brother. A half-brother was Hofrat (Ernst) Friedrich (Christoph) Brückner (1766–1837), lawyer and procurator at the Neustrelitz law firm .

Adolf Brückner and his brother Ernst attended the Latin school in Neubrandenburg from 1760 to 1762 and then the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin. From 1763 he studied medicine at the universities in Berlin, and in 1766 in Göttingen with August Gottlieb Richter and Halle. On the Friedrichs University Halle he became in December 1767 the magazine De proxima febrium et in specie inflammatoriarum causa Dr. med. PhD. He initially worked briefly as a doctor in Woldegk. From 1767 he practiced in Neubrandenburg. In addition, he held the function of city ​​and district physicist . Among his high-ranking patients were Duke Adolf Friedrich IV , the regent of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz region, and his sister Princess Christiane (called Christel) . In 1786 Brückner was appointed court counselor.

In addition to his medical knowledge, Brückner distinguished himself with botanical studies. He compiled a herbarium with several thousand species and was a member of scientific associations. His son Adolf published his and his father's botanical discoveries in a dissertation in 1803.

Adolf Brückner was a friend of the Low German language and was in contact with Johann Heinrich Voss . Via Voss and his brother Ernst he came into contact with the Göttingen Hainbund . With the prose sketch “De Pirdjungs” he made the only Low German contribution to the “Stammbuch des Hainbund”.

Adolf Brückner died in 1823 after more than 50 years of activity at the age of 79 and found his final resting place in the old cemetery in Neubrandenburg.

family

Adolf Brückner married Ernestine (Clara Marie Sophie Hedwig), born on April 23, 1779 in Grauenhagen. Lemcke (1758–1827), daughter of Daniel Lemcke, later landowner on Grauenhagen near Woldegk . The marriage had eight children:

  • Friederike (Ernestine) Brückner (1780–1839), married to the Neubrandenburg pastor Franz Christian Boll (1776–1818), mother of the historians Franz Boll (1805–1875) and Ernst Boll (1817–1868).
  • Adolf (Friedrich) Brückner (1781–1818), Dr. med., doctor in Neubrandenburg.
  • Ernst (Gustav) Brückner (1783–1789)
  • Heinrike (Wilhelmine) Brückner (1786–1852), married from 1805 to Carl (Hermann) Runge (1779–1841), a brother of Philipp Otto Runge .
  • Adolfine (Hedwig) Brückner (1788–1838), married to the theologian August Milarch (1786–1862).
  • Gustav (Adam) Brückner (1789–1860), Dr. med., doctor in Ludwigslust.
  • Ernst (Friedrich) Brückner (1794–1835), farmer in Jatzke
  • (Heinrich) Wilhelm Brückner (1796–1874), pastor and prepositive in Groß Gievitz .

The well-known Neubrandenburgers, the mayor Friedrich Brückner and the physician Ludwig (I.) Brückner , were his nephews, sons of his half-brother Friedrich.

Fonts (selection)

  • De proxima febrium et in specie inflammatoriarum causa. Dissertation, Halle 1767
    ( On the next cause of fever and in particular some inflammatory fevers )
  • De Pirdjungs. (The horse boys). In: Stammbuch des Hainbund. Goettingen 1775

literature

  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1929, p. 159
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1423 f .
  • Paul Kahl: The correspondence between Johann Heinrich Voss and Adolf Friedrich Brückner. Preserved fragments. On the 200th anniversary of the death of Ernst Theodor Johann Brückner on May 29, 2005. In: Vossische Nachrichten. Announcements of the Johann Heinrich Voß Society eV No. 8, November 2005, pp. 25–40 ( digitized PDF ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Paul Kahl: The exchange of letters ... In: Vossische Nachrichten. 8/2005, p. 27 (see literature)
    "He enrolled in Göttingen on May 2, 1766 (matriculation for 1766, Göttingen University Archives )".
  2. ^ A b Adolf (Friedrich) Brückner: Prodromus Florae Neobrandenburgensis. Dissertation 1803. Information in:
    Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1425 .
  3. ^ Paul Kahl: Adolf Friedrich Theodor Brückner: De Pirdjungs (1775). A Low German dialogue idyll on the serf question in a "federal book" of the Göttingen grove. In: Yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research. Vol. 128 (2005), pp. 115-133.
  4. ^ Paul Kahl: The exchange of letters ... In: Vossische Nachrichten. 8/2005, p. 33 (see literature).
personal data
SURNAME Brückner, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brückner, Adolph; Brückner, Adolf Friedrich Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, botanist and Low German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Neetzka
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1823
Place of death Neubrandenburg