Carl Gottlieb Wagler

Carl Gottlieb Wagler (born June 17, 1731 in Annaberg ; † July 20, 1778 in Braunschweig ) was a German doctor and philanthropist . He was a professor at the Collegium Carolinum and ducal personal physician in Braunschweig.

Life

The son of a miller moved to Wismar with his mother and sister after the early death of his father . There he attended school and did an apprenticeship with a surgeon .

Studied in Göttingen

At Easter 1757 he began to study medicine at the University of Göttingen with Johann Georg Roederer , co-founder of the first university maternity hospital in the German-speaking area. Wagler, valued by Roederer, became a prosector at the anatomical theater and gained experience in the field of obstetrics. His most important work in Göttingen was his dissertation De morbo mucoso from 1762 , which for the first time summarized the clinical and pathological findings of abdominal typhus , the pathogen of which was only discovered in 1880 by Karl Joseph Eberth .

Activity in Braunschweig

In 1763 Wagler received a call to Braunschweig, where from November he gave lectures in obstetrics and theoretical surgery at the Institute of Anatomy and Surgery of the Collegium Carolinum . In 1766 he became the personal physician of the Brunswick Duchess Philippine Charlotte . For health reasons, he was gradually released from his teaching duties until 1767 and was only available as an examiner in the following years. At Wagler's instigation, the Accouchierhaus , which had been planned since 1759 , was opened in 1767 . This maternity hospital was located on the corner of Wendenstrasse and Wilhelmstrasse and enabled unmarried women in particular to have a better delivery. In 1772 he translated the basic work of the Italian Angelo Gatti (1724–1798) on smallpox vaccination into German and used his method for his own vaccination experiments. In 1775 Wagler married the eldest daughter of the Braunschweig merchant Krause, with whom he had two sons. Abbot Jerusalem , Johann Georg Zimmermann , August Ludwig von Schlözer , Johann Bernhard Basedow and Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow belonged to his circle of friends and acquaintances . He was a fatherly friend to the young Johann Peter Hundiker . Wagler strived for an improvement in social conditions and was one of the protagonists of educationally inspired health measures for the common people. He died in 1778 at the age of 47.

Wagler belonged to several scientific societies. He was a corresponding member of the Göttingen Society of Sciences . He was accepted into the Scientific Society in Haarlem in 1772 and was since January 30, 1774 with the surname Carpitanus member (registration number 792) of the Leopoldina . From 1776 he belonged to the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin .

Fonts

• together with Johann Georg Roederer: Tractatus de morbo mucoso , 1762.

literature

• Dörte Helling: Wagler, Carl Gottlieb . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 725 .
• Karl-Rudolf Döhnel: The Anatomical-Surgical Institute in Braunschweig , Braunschweiger Werkstücke, Volume 19, Braunschweig 1957.
• Johann Heinrich Martin Ernesti (ed.): Historical-literary handbook of famous and memorable people who lived in the eighteenth century , Fifteenth Volume, Leipzig 1812, p. 204ff.
• Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 232 (archive.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann Heinrich Martin Ernesti (ed.): Historical-literary manual of famous and memorable people who lived in the eighteenth century , Volume Fifteenth, Leipzig 1812, p. 206
2. ^ Member entry by Karl Gottlieb Wagler at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 29, 2017.