Andreas Johannes Orlovius

Andreas Johannes Orlovius (born December 31, 1735 in Wilna ; † February 28, 1788 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German physician.

Life

No reliable information is available about Orlovius' social background and first educational pathways. Presumably he was the son of the general practitioner in Wilna Dr. Georg Andreas Orlovius from Eckersberg, who received his doctorate in medicine in Königsberg in 1718. Presumably he had also attended high school in his hometown. He completed his studies at the Albertus University in Königsberg , where he had enrolled on March 5, 1753. Initially, he will have completed a basic course in philosophical sciences and then turned to medical sciences. As a student of medical sciences, he was a respondent to the dissertation Observationes quaedam, circa nonnulla remedia antepileptica usitatiora held by the extraordinary associate professor of medicine Johann Wilhelm Werner († February 28, 1762) . prove.

After his inaugural dissertation on March 10, 1761, Quaestionem pathologicam: suntne haemorrhoides morbus? had disputed, he received his doctorate in medicine on March 12 of the same year. No information is available for the following years either. What is certain is that he was appointed to the University of Königsberg on November 4, 1765, where he took over a chair at the medical faculty on March 19, 1766 . Possibly it was a newly established fifth medical professorship. He taught physiology according to Albrecht von Haller , surgery according to Joseph Jakob Plenck and chemistry.

The university professor, popular with the students, was not undisputed in Königsberg. He was denied an academic advancement after his colleague Johann Daniel Metzger publicly accused him of incompetence. Nevertheless, he kept a cool head even in critical times. In the winter semester 1779/80 he was elected rector of the Alma Mater. It was precisely at that time that the epidemics of measles and rubella occurred in Königsberg. In the summer semester of 1780, Karl Andreas Christiani managed to get it off , so that he had to take over his duties as Vice-Rector in the same semester .

When the actual rectors and vice rectors died in the winter semester 1781/82, he also had to hold this office again. In that capacity he had established himself in such a way that he was again elected rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semesters of 1783/84 and 1787/88 . However, in his last term of office, he himself died. Orlovius left the Königsberg University a scholarship of 1000 guilders to support the sick students in the Collegium Albertinum (Königsberg) and 1300 guilders for scholarships.

Works

Diss. Inaug. de Quaestionem pathologicam: suntne haemorrhoides morbus? Koenigsberg 1761
Diss. De plica Polonica. Koenigsberg 1766.
Dissertatio chemico practica agens de incturis alcalinis. Koenigsberg 1766.
Dissertatio chemico-medica agens: De magnesia Edinburgensi quae vulgo terra absorbens mineralis audit. Koenigsberg 1773.
Progr. De utilitate sectionum anatomicarum. Koenigsberg 1781.
Diss. De haemorrhagia oris. Koenigsberg 1781.
Diss. De balneis frigidis, ad mercurii efficaciam adiuvandam, in curanda lue venerea adhibendis. Koenigsberg 1782.
Diss. De plethora. Koenigsberg 1783.
Diss. Praemissa de cortice peruviano rubro diatribe, lectiones cursorias ... Caroli Christophori Hoffmann ... have the indicat. Koenigsberg 1783.
Progr. De rubeolarum et morbillorum discrimine. Koenigsberg 1785.
Progr. De haemorrhagia spontanea ex apice pollicis manus sinistrae. Koenigsberg 1786.
Progr. Lectiones cursorias a ... habendas, praemissa observatione, de insigni calculo felleo per alvum excreto, indicit. Koenigsberg 1787.

literature

Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1810, vol. 10, p. 230 ( online )
Dictionaire des sciences médicales: biography médicale. CLF Panckoucke, Paris, 1824, vol. 6, p. 341, ( online , French)
August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg Verlag, Vienna and Leipzig, 1886, Vol. 4, p. 434

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Georg Erler (Ed.): The register of the Albertus University in Königsberg i. Pr. - The matriculations from 1657–1829. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1911/12 vol. 2, p. 447 Entry: Orlovius Joh. Andr., Vilva-Lithuan
↑ Georg Erler (Ed.): The register of the Albertus University in Königsberg i. Pr. - The matriculations from 1657–1829. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1911/12 vol. 2, p. 499 Entry: Winter semester 1765: 4th Novembris Orlovius Joh. Andr., Vir praestantissimus, Vilna-Lithvan., Ex Polonia redux, Dr. med. in Academia nostra rite promotus Ius Academicum repetiit, quod anno huius saeculi LIII. (presumably error should actually be called LXVI and not LIII) the XIX. Martii obtinuit
^ Friedrich Ekkard: literary manual of all previously known higher teaching institutions in and outside of Germany, in a statistical-chronological order. Verlag Johann Jakob Palm, Erlangen, 1782, 2nd part, p. 10, ( online ) and Kazimir Kleofasovich Lavrinovich, Dietrich Rauschning: Albertina: on the history of the Albertus University in Königsberg in Prussia. Duncker & Humblot Verlag, 1999, ISBN 9783428100163 , p. 167
^ New literary news for doctors, surgeons and naturalists, for the years 1785 and 1786. Verlag Johann Christian Hendel, Halle (Saale), 1786, p. 444 ( online )
^ Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch: The Prussian universities. A collection of ordinances that concern the constitution and administration of these institutions. Verlag Ernst Friedrich Mittler, Berlin-Posen-Bromberg, 1839, p. 556, ( online ) and OWL Richter: Archive for patriotic interests or Prussian provincial sheets. Verlag Albert Baumann, Marienwerder, 1845, p. 799, ( online )

personal data
SURNAME	Orlovius, Andreas Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Orlowski, Andrzej Jan; Orlovius, André Jean; Orlovius, Johann Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vilna
DATE OF DEATH	February 28, 1788
Place of death	Königsberg (Prussia)

[1] Georg Erler (Ed.): The register of the Albertus University in Königsberg i. Pr. - The matriculations from 1657–1829. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1911/12 vol. 2, p. 447 Entry: Orlovius Joh. Andr., Vilva-Lithuan

[2] Georg Erler (Ed.): The register of the Albertus University in Königsberg i. Pr. - The matriculations from 1657–1829. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1911/12 vol. 2, p. 499 Entry: Winter semester 1765: 4th Novembris Orlovius Joh. Andr., Vir praestantissimus, Vilna-Lithvan., Ex Polonia redux, Dr. med. in Academia nostra rite promotus Ius Academicum repetiit, quod anno huius saeculi LIII. (presumably error should actually be called LXVI and not LIII) the XIX. Martii obtinuit

[3] Friedrich Ekkard: literary manual of all previously known higher teaching institutions in and outside of Germany, in a statistical-chronological order. Verlag Johann Jakob Palm, Erlangen, 1782, 2nd part, p. 10, ( online ) and Kazimir Kleofasovich Lavrinovich, Dietrich Rauschning: Albertina: on the history of the Albertus University in Königsberg in Prussia. Duncker & Humblot Verlag, 1999, ISBN 9783428100163 , p. 167

[4] New literary news for doctors, surgeons and naturalists, for the years 1785 and 1786. Verlag Johann Christian Hendel, Halle (Saale), 1786, p. 444 ( online )

[5] Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch: The Prussian universities. A collection of ordinances that concern the constitution and administration of these institutions. Verlag Ernst Friedrich Mittler, Berlin-Posen-Bromberg, 1839, p. 556, ( online ) and OWL Richter: Archive for patriotic interests or Prussian provincial sheets. Verlag Albert Baumann, Marienwerder, 1845, p. 799, ( online )