Adolf Mühry

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Adolf Mühry

Adolf Mühry (born September 4, 1810 in Hanover , † June 13, 1888 in Göttingen ) was a German private scholar and bioclimatologist .

Life

Mühry was one of four sons of the Hanoverian Senior Medical Council and Court Medical Officer Georg Friedrich Mühry . From 1829 he studied medicine at the Georg August University in Göttingen , later also at the University of Heidelberg . In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . In 1841 he published the posthumous Medical Fragments of his brother Carl Mühry , who died the previous year , and worked as a private scholar and surgeon for the Hanover Army . In 1844, for example, he published on the historical immutability of nature and the forms of disease and dedicated this contribution to the naturalists' meeting in Bremen. In 1848 he was appointed to the medical council. He refused an appointment as professor at the University of Jena and from 1854 withdrew to a self-chosen isolation in Göttingen. Here, influenced by the thoughts of Alexander von Humboldt , he began his work on climatic therapy and investigated the relationship between geography and climate on the one hand and the spread of diseases on the other. He gained knowledge about the causes, prevention and cure of diseases. Over time he turned away from medicine and dealt with scientific questions of climatology and oceanography. In this way he came to purely philosophical questions, which he summarized in his main work On Exact Natural Philosophy .

Mühry had been the bearer of the Cross of Merit of the Ernestine House Order since 1865 . In Svalbard , Cape Mühry on Heleysund was named after him.

Works

  • The geographical conditions of the diseases, or the main features of nosogeography. Leipzig, 1856, 2 parts ( digitized )
  • Climatological studies, or basics of climatology, relating to the health conditions of the populations. Leipzig 1858
  • General geographic meteorology. Leipzig 1860
  • Climatographic overview of the earth. Leipzig 1862 with addition in 1865
  • Contributions to geophysics and climatography. Leipzig 1863
  • The climate of the Alps below the snow line. Goettingen 1865
  • Investigations into the theory and general geographical system of the winds. Goettingen 1869
  • About the doctrine of ocean currents. Goettingen 1869
  • About the exact natural philosophy. A contribution to the new constitution of philosophy, which is now being carried out on a scientific basis. 5 parts, Göttingen 1877–1882.

literature

  • Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809–1899 Göttingen 2002, p. 134, No. 383
  • Gustav Hofmann:  Mühry, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 295 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • N. Theus: Adolf Adalbert Mühry (1810–1888) - life and work of the Göttingen doctor with special consideration of medical geography , dissertation, Göttingen 1998.
  • NA Rupke: Adolf Mühry (1810–1888): Göttingen's Humboldtian medical geographer. In: Medical History Supplement 20, 2000, pp. 86-97.

Online sources

  1. ↑ Kapp Mühry . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
  2. ↑ ABOUT THE EXACT NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. Online output in text form
personal data
SURNAME Mühry, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German private scholar and bioclimatologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1888
Place of death Goettingen