August Johann von Hugo
August Johann von Hugo (born September 11, 1686 in Stolzenau , † April 8, 1760 in Hanover ) was Royal British and Electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg personal physician in Hanover.
Life
The relevant sources of the medical biography are largely silent about Hugo. He was born as the son of the bailiff, later senior bailiff of Stolzenau Conrad von Hugo (1636–1710) and Margarethe Emerentia Conerding (1661–1737). On April 22, 1706 he enrolled at the University of Helmstedt and settled as a doctor in Hanover before he became court medic there in 1715. On December 5, 1715 he married Marie Elisabeth Conerding (1700–1763), the daughter of the doctor Brandan August Conerding , in Hanover , and acquired citizenship in this city on June 16, 1725. In 1737 he was appointed Royal British and Electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg personal physician, and in 1740 he was appointed Councilor.
Daniel Eberhard Baring mentions him as one “who links the beautiful sciences with medicine” and says that his collection contained the fossil record that the Stuttgart court preacher Eberhard Friedrich Hiemer (1682–1727) first named in 1724 as “Swabian Medusa head “Described. Today it is known that the fossils are sea lilies . The plate ended up in the collection of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) in the collection of the University of Göttingen , where it is exhibited today in the permanent exhibition of the Geoscientific Center . His extensive herbarium is also preserved in the university collections.
In 1717 Hugo was elected a member of the Royal Society .
August Johann von Hugo must not be confused with August Ludwig von Hugo , who in Göttingen in 1746 received "de glandulis in genere, et in specie de thymo" for Dr. med. PhD, described by Albrecht von Haller as a pupil and friend ("noster olim nobilis discipuli & amici"), but was still mistaken for that.
Hugo had been married since 1715 to Marie Elisabeth Conerding (1700–1763), a niece of his mother.
literature
- Herbert Mundhenke , Die Matrikel der Universität Helmstedt 1685–1810 , Hildesheim 1979, p. 77.
- Thomas Schnalke, Medicine in a Letter , Stuttgart 1997, p. 111, note 242.
- Daniel Eberhard Baring , Descriptio Salae principatus Calenbergici locorumque adiacentium Or description of the hall in the office of Lauenstein of Braunschweig-Lüneb. Fürstenthums Calenberg , Lemgo 1744, pp. 209-210.
- Joachim Reiter, Mike Reich, Gabriele Schmidt (Eds.), Geobiology. 74th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Society, Göttingen, 2. – 8. October 2004, pp. 190-191.
- Albrecht von Haller , Bibliotheca Anatomica , Vol. 2, Zurich 1777, p. 408.
Web links
- Family tree of Hugos on a private genealogy page
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/august+johann+von+hugo+herbarium/578924.html
- ^ Entry on Hugo, Johann August (1686 - 1753) in the archive of the Royal Society , London
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hugo, August Johann von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1686 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stolzenau |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1760 |
| Place of death | Hanover |