Benedict Christian Vogel

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Benedict Christian Vogel, 1789 (etching by Christoph Wilhelm Bock )

Benedict Christian Vogel (born April 24, 1745 in Feuchtwangen ; † June 8, 1825 in Nuremberg ) was a German physician and botanist ; his official botanical author abbreviation is B.Vogel .

Life

Benedict Christian Vogel was the son of chaplain Georg Ludwig Vogel and his wife Anna Maria Barbara (née Frieß) (* 1718, † 1792). The names of his siblings are known:

After the early death of his father, he went to the Feuchtwangen Latin School and received further lessons from his uncle, who later became the pastor in Pegnitz . In 1761 at the age of 16 he went to the grammar school in Ansbach (today: grammar school Carolinum ); He stayed there until 1763 and had until 1760, in particular, lessons in Latin and Greek with the rector Johann Zacharias Leonhard Junkheim , as well as physics and mathematics with Professor Johann Georg Rabe (1719-1802).

After finishing school , he enrolled at the University of Helmstedt at Easter 1763 , where his older brother Georg Wilhelm Vogel was already studying, studying internal and external medicine , natural history and botany. Among other things, he heard lectures on anatomy , physiology and surgery from Johann Traugott Adolph (1728–1771) and lectures on physics , chemistry , pharmacy and pathology from Hofrat Gottfried Christoph Beireis .

On May 13, 1766 he received his doctorate with his dissertation de regimine secretionum et excretiomum and traveled back to Feuchtwangen via Göttingen , Halle , Leipzig , Jena and Erlangen . On November 15, 1766 he was accepted into the medical college in Ansbach; there he represented Kasimir Christoph Schmidel in his absence . On May 5, 1767 he received his appointment as extraordinary professor of pharmacy at the University of Altdorf , which he followed in August of the same year; on April 24, 1768 he was appointed full professor.

In 1771 he received the second and in 1784 the first professorship at the medical faculty , he was also dean several times and rector of the university in 1771, 1781 and 1791. He dealt intensively with botany and gave public, i.e. free, lectures.

In April 1810 he moved from Altdorf to Nuremberg.

Benedict Christian Vogel married Christiane Johanne († October 22, 1817) on November 22, 1784, daughter of the privy councilor Gustav Georg König von Königsthal (1717–1771), who died in Wetzlar . Together they had two daughters and a son:

  • Eberhard Wilhelm Ludwig Vogel, died at the age of two;
  • Maria Eleonora Sophia Vogel, married to lawyer and collegiate counselor Wilhelm Georg Eberhard von Königsthal, son of councilor Eberhard Jodocus von Königsthal (1745–1808);
  • Regine Charlotte Juliane.

When he died, his old friend Johann Karl Osterhausen (1765–1839) treated him.

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  1. ^ International Plant Names Index. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  2. ^ The Latin School until its abolition. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ General lexicon of scholars: Therein the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present time, and made themselves known to the learned world, after their birth, life, remarkable stories, deaths and writings the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Continuation and additions; Vol. 6. Gleditsch, 1819 ( google.de [accessed on February 14, 2020]).
  4. ^ University of Helmstedt - professor catalog. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Georg Andreas Wills: Georg Andreas Wills history and description of the Nuremberg Universitæt Altdorf . by the second publisher, 1801 ( google.de [accessed on February 14, 2020]).
  6. ↑ GEDBAS: Gustav Georg KING OF KING THAL. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Benedict Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogel, Benedikt Christian; Vogel, Benedictus Christianus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Wet cheeks
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1825
Place of death Nuremberg