Carl August of Madai

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Carl August Madai , since 1766 von Madai , also Karl August Madai , (born August 6, 1739 in Glaucha ; † October 31, 1816 ) was a German physician, entrepreneur and numismatist . He was Anhalt-Koethenscher Hofrat and director of the drug expedition of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) , which his father had developed into a large company, as well as court and liege lord of Benkendorf , Delitz am Berge and Zscherben and heir to Güsten .

Life

He was the only son of the Hungarian medicine and numismatist David Samuel von Madai and his wife Maria Margarete, née. Richter († 1741), a daughter of Christian Sigismund Richter (1672 or 1673–1739). In 1750 he went to the Pädagogium Halle as a student . From 1756 he studied medicine at the University of Halle . There he completed his doctorate on January 4, 1763 with Philipp Adolph Böhmer together with Nikolaus Theume (1729–1809) from Leer with a double dissertation on Dr. med. Like his father, he became a physician as well as a royal Anhalt-Koethenscher Hofrat. After completing his doctorate, he and his father were knighted by Emperor Joseph II on January 14, 1766 for his services as a doctor.

He was initially his father's assistant and in 1780 took over the management of the pharmaceutical mail order business, the drug expedition of the orphanage of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) , the main source of income for the orphanage there. He continued the expansion of the laboratory begun by his father and was also able to expand the dispatch of medicines and help to gain international reputation. During the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Wars of Liberation , he was able to lead the company he headed with the active support of Johann Friedrich Christian Düffer out of the depression and save it from the impending dissolution.

His son Carl Wilhelm Samuel von Madai (1777-1851) successfully led the pharmaceutical expedition of the Francke Foundations in the third generation.

At the grave of the theologian and director of the Francke Foundations Gottlieb Anastasius Freylinghausen , he held the funeral speech in 1785, which also appeared in print.

Madai inherited the paternal manors Benkendorf and Delitz, which he sold to Heinrich August von Holleuffer in 1799 . In addition, he acquired the Zscherben manor and inheritance claims to his sister's manor in Güsten, Anhalt . His son and successor Carl was born there in 1777.

He initially continued his father's internationally notable coin collection, but then left the so-called Groschenkabinett with around 9,000 coins to the coin cabinet of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden , where it is still located today. On the other hand, he had the extremely extensive and significant collection of coins auctioned publicly in Hamburg in 1788 .

In 1766 he married Henriette Charlotte, b. von Schlegell, a daughter of the Anhalt-Koethen court marshal WF von Schlegell. The marriage resulted in four sons and five daughters, including Carl Wilhelm von Madai (* 1777), Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb August (* 1781), and Joseph Heinrich Wilhelm August Friedrich Ludwig (* 1784). The eldest son David Friedrich Sigismund von Madai (* 1770), who was supposed to be his successor, died in 1796.

The later police chief Guido von Madai and the legal scholar Karl Otto von Madai are his grandsons. The Hessian statesman August Carl Alexander von Zanthier was his brother-in-law.

literature

  • Johann Hermann Baas: The historical development of the medical status and the medical sciences. 1896, p. 378
  • Wolfram Kaiser, Werner Piechocki : The Madai doctors dynasty in Halle. In: Comm. Hist. Art. Med. 60/61 (1971), pp. 49–96 ( digitized version )
  • Holger Fischer, Ferenc Szabadváry: Technology transfer and science exchange between Hungary and Germany. Aspects of historical relationships in science and technology , 1995, pp. 103f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Poeckern: The Hallische Waisenhaus-Arzeneyen: Commentary, Glossary and Transcription , Bibliotheca historico-naturalis antiqua, Vol. 3, Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1984, p. 38
  2. ↑ See Renate Wilson: Pious Traders in Medicine: A German Pharmaceutical Network in Eighteenth-Century North America , Max Kade German-American Research Institute Series, Penn State Press 2008, ISBN 9780271039121
  3. ↑ Bey the grave of the revered and highly learned gentleman, Mr. Gottlieb Anastasius Freylinghausen [...] , Halle / S. 1785
  4. ↑ Auction of the Madaischen Thaler-Kabinets , Journal des Luxus und der Moden , 3rd year, August 1788, p. LXIV-LXV
personal data
SURNAME Madai, Carl August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madai, Carl August; Madai, from; Madai, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, entrepreneur and numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Glaucha
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1816