Alexander Bernhard Kölpin

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Alexander Bernhard Kölpin (born August 31, 1739 in Garz / Rügen ; † November 18, 1801 in Stettin ) was a German doctor and botanist .

Life

Born on Rügen, Kölpin moved to Greifswald with his parents in 1742 . There he attended the council school and from 1755 studied theology at the University of Greifswald . He moved to the University of Göttingen , but had to return home soon after because of the occupation by French troops in the Seven Years' War . He preached a few times in Greifswald churches, but because of his poor health ("chest weakness" and "coughing up blood"), which made it impossible for him to work as a theologian, he switched to studying medicine. He studied in Berlin and Greifswald and was awarded a Dr. med. doctorate, was director of the Greifswald botanical garden from 1765 and from 1767 also adjunct of the Greifswald medical faculty. In 1771 he went to Stettin as a district physician and professor at the academic high school .

Kölpin corresponded with Carl von Linné and published a German translation of Pehr Löfling's botanical travelogue in 1766 .

He was the lodge master of the Szczecin Masonic lodge "To the three golden anchors".

Fonts

  • Specimen Meditationum philosophicarum . Struck, Greifswald 1756
  • De Principiis cognoscendi omnium primis eorumque vera subordinatione . Struck, Greifswald 1757
  • Commentatio botanico-physica de Stylo ejusque differentiis externis . Röse, Greifswald 1764
  • Dissertatio Inauguralis Anatomica De Structura Mammarum Sexus Sequioris Nuperrimis Observationibus Et Experimentis Superstructura . Röse, Greifswald 1764
  • De fetus et adulti differentia . Röse, Greifswald 1764
  • Schediasma Anatomicum De Structura Mammarum Sexus Sequioris Nuperrimis Observationibus Et Experimentis Superstructa . Lange, Berlin 1765
  • Oratio avspicalis De historiae natvralis et speciatim botanices praestantia ac dignitate . Röse, Greifswald 1766
  • Treatise of the internal structure of the female breast, described from new experiments and perceptions . Lange, Berlin and Stralsund 1767 ( digitized version )
  • Florae gryphicae supplementum herbationibus accommodatum . Röse, Greifswald 1769
  • De cultura historiae naturalis in Pomerania disserit , Stettin 1773
  • About the natural history of Pomerania , no place 1779
  • Practical remarks on the use of the Siberian snow rose in gout diseases . Friedrich Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1779 ( digitized version )
  • Lessons for the farmer about the lung disease that rages among cattle . Leich, Stettin 1800 (2nd edition 1801)

Translations:

  • Pehr Löfling : Journey to the Spanish countries in Europe and America in the years 1751 to 1756, along with observations and comments on the strange plants . Edited by Carl von Linné. GA Lange, Berlin and Stralsund 1766 ( digitized version ), 2nd edition 1776
  • William Baylies : Brief Sentences on Smallpox to Explore the True Nature of the Disease . Translated from English and edited by Alexander Bernhard Kölpin. HG Effenbart, Stettin 1775

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin Neue Schriften , 4th volume. 1803, p. VII ( Google Books ; Biederstedt names December 1780 as the date of death, which seems unlikely since Kölpin published a book in 1800)
  2. ↑ Biederstedt, p. 97, see literature
  3. ^ Roderich Schmidt, Karl-Heinz Spiess (ed.), Reinhard Pohl (edit.): The register of the University of Greifswald and the deanery books of the theological, legal and philosophical faculties 1700-1821 , volume 2. Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08044-9 , p. 273
  4. ↑ Biederstedt, p. 97, see literature
personal data
SURNAME Kölpin, Alexander Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Garz / Rügen
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1801
Place of death Szczecin