Carl Christian Schiemann

Johann Karl Ulrich Bähr : Portrait Carl Christian Schiemann (1833)

Carl Christian Schiemann (born September 16, 1763 in Mitau ; † March 17, 1835 there ) was a Baltic German doctor.

family

The father was Alexander Friedrich Schiemann, court attorney. The mother was Catharina Schiemann, b. Andrae. On December 18, 1792, in Mitau, he married Charlotte Christiane von Raison, a daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm von Raison , who died in 1795. Then he married in Siuxt (Kurland) on April 20, 1798 Elisabeth Wilpert who died in 1799. He married Agnesa Benigna Wilpert in 1801.

Life

Carl Christian Schiemann attended the city school and from 1779 to 1782 the Academia Petrina in Mitau. From 1782 to 1786 he studied medicine in Göttingen and became Dr. med. He went on a study trip through Holland and England to Edinburgh (to William Cullen ). From 1787 he was in Courland, and as a general practitioner in Mitau. Schiemann investigated the Courland sulfur springs in Baldohn and Barbern (Bārbele) on the orders of the government .

From 1798 he was a member of the examination committee at the Courland Medical Authority. He went on a study trip to Göttingen, Vienna and Dresden. In 1804, together with Hofrat Christian Ulrich Wünsch, he founded an institute in Mitau for free protection leaf vaccination. In 1823 Schiemann stayed in Bad Ems for a cure .

Memberships

• 1801 honorary member of the Physical Society in Göttingen
• 1806 honorary member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists
• 1823 honorary member of the society for the entire mineralogy in Jena
• full member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
• full member of the Kurland Society for Literature and Art

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Carl Christian Schiemann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Carl Christian Schiemann at the IPNI
• Works by and about Carl Christian Schiemann  in the German Digital Library
• Schiemann (Karl Christian) in: General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , Volume 4, p. 62 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
• 391. Schiemann, Carl Christian in: Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists, and naturalists of all educated peoples. Seventeenth volume. Copenhagen, 1833. p. 135 ( limited preview in Google Book search)