Christian August Pescheck

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Christian August Pescheck (born December 29, 1760 in Eibau near Zittau , † September 29, 1833 in Dresden ) was a German doctor and writer .

Life

Christian August Pescheck was the younger son of pastor Christian Friedrich Pescheck (1724–1789), who worked in Eibau. This soon followed a call to Zittau, and here the son received his education partly through private lessons given by his older brother Christian Adolph Pescheck and by candidates, partly in the municipal high school. Richter, Frühauf and Müller were among his main teachers. He recommended himself through his diligence. His poetic talent also made him friends. The text he wrote for the cantata that was performed in Zittau on the occasion of the celebration of the Peace of Teschen (1779) met with a lot of applause .

Pescheck studied medicine in Leipzig and later in Berlin . He received mainly lessons from Platner , Ludwig, Eschenbach and Gehler . Without neglecting his professional subject, he also dealt with scholarly works and wrote several novels , which were soon forgotten. He also published a new monthly for the fair sex in 1786. Most of the attention had attracted his poetic war paintings (Leipzig 1782), for which the Bavarian Succession War at the time provided him with the material. He owed the honor of being presented to King Frederick the Great in Berlin to these poetic attempts .

With the dissertation De gravidarum affectionibus earumque cura (Leipzig 1784), which he defended under Gehler's chairmanship, Pescheck had acquired the degree of doctor of medicine in 1784 . Since then he has lived as a general practitioner in his hometown, from 1786 in Görlitz and then in Zittau. There he lost his beloved wife Karoline Elisabeth born in 1792. Heffter (1760–1792), a daughter of the city physician Johann Carl Heffter in Zittau, whom he married on December 6, 1786. In his six-year marriage, his wife had given birth to him two children, the later Zittau city physician Friedrich August Pescheck (1787–1841) and the daughter Karoline Henriette, who died in 1814 after a long suffering. Also from his second marriage to Christiane Caroline, b. Kleyck, the daughter of citizenship deputies in Zittau, emerged nine children, including Henry Edward Pescheck, author of the work , the whole of lithography , viewed from the artistic and technical and mechanical side (Ilmenau 1829), Augusta Charlotte, the wife of the doctor Ernst Heinrich Kneschke and Karl Julius Ludwig Pescheck, who worked as a painter and engraver in Dresden.

Pescheck presented himself with a welcome opportunity to travel to the Rhine and Main when he accompanied the Saxon army to those areas as a field doctor in 1795 . In 1796, too, his job took him far away, while his family stayed back in Dresden. During these campaigns he suffered a lot and survived a life-threatening hospital fever . From 1798 he lived again as a general practitioner in Zittau. From 1802 to 1825 he worked there as a city ​​physician and proved himself to be a man of excellent insight and experience. When he retired in 1825, he bought a small estate in Meusslitz near Dohna , which he hoped would find a pleasant occupation by managing it. But he was soon dissatisfied with running the farm , so he gave up his estate again and moved to Dresden in 1828. He lived there as a private scholar. He was increasingly plagued by age-related complaints. He went to the mineral baths in Zittau unsuccessfully against a stale heart disease. On September 28, 1833 he returned to Dresden, where he died of a blood stroke the following day at the age of 72. He found his final resting place in the Sankt Annen churchyard.

Fonts

Pescheck was a versatile writer. As immature youthful works, his novels soon fell into oblivion. These include:

  • The unknown nun , Leipzig 1781
  • The hunter girl, for the sensitive and mockers , Leipzig 1782
  • Philipp and Jacobine , 1782
  • Fritz and Pappelwald , Vienna 1783
  • Theodor, or the revenge of fate , Vienna 1784
  • Love and marriage in a fool's cap and a philosophical cloak , Breslau 1786

On the other hand, his poetic war paintings (Leipzig 1782) attracted much attention because the poetic literature was not rich in poems of this genre. His monograph des Oybins ( Der Oybin bei Zittau, Raubschloss, Kloster und Naturwunder , Zittau 1793; 2nd edition Zittau 1804; Legends and adventures from the robbery and monastery Oybin , Zittau 1801) has contributed a lot to the fame of this place:

For his medical subject, Pescheck worked as a translator of several French works, including:

  • The diseases of the skin , Breslau 1787
  • New remedy (the volatile alkali) against venereal evil , Breslau 1787
  • Experiment on the degeneration of the sexual instinct among humans , Breslau, Brieg and Leipzig 1790

In Johann Christian Stark's Archive for Obstetrics (1793, 4th volume), Pescheck had the Zittauian midwifery regulations printed, and in the Lausitz monthly magazine from 1794 he published an article on the epidemic dysentery in the area around Zittau. In the Lausitz monthly, of which he published three volumes (1791–93), he made some interesting contributions to the topography, economy and history of Lausitz . 1821-24 he published the monthly Der Arzt , after having had a dictionary of family medicine for doctors and non-doctors printed in two volumes in Zittau from 1800 to 1802 . With the small font Zittau and its surroundings (Zittau 1821) he set a monument to his hometown. Among his mixed writings, his Monthly Conversations on Religion, Nature, Art and Human Studies (Zittau 1798) deserve a mention.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ A b c d Franz Brümmer :  Pescheck, Christian August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 414 f.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Heinrich Döring: Pescheck, Christian August , in: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , 3rd section, 18th part (1843), p. 287.
  3. ^ Pescheck, Karoline Elisabeth , in the catalog of the German National Library .
  4. ^ Heinrich Döring: Pescheck, Christian August , in: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , 3rd section, 18th part (1843), pp. 287–288.

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personal data
SURNAME Pescheck, Christian August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Eibau near Zittau
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1833
Place of death Dresden