Christian Friedrich von Jäger
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Christian Friedrich Jäger , from 1806 by Jäger , (born October 13, 1739 in Stuttgart ; † September 7, 1808 ibid) was a German medic.
Life
Christian Friedrich Jäger grew up in Nürtingen . His father, the doctor Georg Friedrich Jäger (1714–1787), worked as a city and senior office physician in Nürtingen and Neuffen and as a monastery physician in Denkendorf (Württemberg) .
Christian Friedrich Jäger was originally supposed to become a theologian and was therefore a pupil of the monastery schools in Denkendorf and Maulbronn . He then came to the Tübingen Abbey and in 1760 acquired the title of “Magister”. Then he decided to become a medic. He studied in Tübingen , Leyden , Berlin and Vienna and graduated in 1767 with a doctorate. In the same year he was appointed associate professor of medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. After the death of his father-in-law Philipp Friedrich Gmelin , he received his full professorship in Tübingen for botany and chemistry in 1768. From 1772 he was also professor of pathology and medical practice. Jäger quickly made a name for himself with numerous groundbreaking publications.
In 1780, Duke Carl Eugen appointed Christian Friedrich Jäger to be his personal medicine . For hunters this was on the one hand an honor, but on the other hand it was also a burden, since the Duke was very far from him in character and medical advice was often ignored. It was only reluctantly that he was transferred to the High Charles School by the Duke in 1784 as Professor of Forensic Medicine and Medical Practice . There he found close contact with the circle of the Charles student and later natural scientist Georges Cuvier . Both gave each other essential impulses.
The reorganization of the inefficient Württemberg medical system was a Herculean task for Jäger. Following the example of the Austrian health politician Johann Peter Frank , who was active under Emperor Joseph II , he achieved great successes in particular in the pharmaceutical regulations, diagnostics, the fight against infectious diseases and the fight against the high infant mortality rate.
Even after the death of Carl Eugen in 1793, Jäger remained the body medicine of King Friedrich I. Shortly before his 69th birthday, he died in Stuttgart. His extensive written estate is considered lost.
family
Christian Friedrich Jäger was the son of the doctor Georg Friedrich Jäger (1714–1787) and Christiane Friderike Jäger born. Rheinwald (1716–1747). He married Christiane Elisabeth Gmelin in Lustnau in 1768 . In 1774 he married Luise Friederike Sonntag for the second time in Nürtingen.
A daughter and son come from the first marriage
- Carl Christian Friedrich von Jäger (1773–1828), chief medical officer and personal physician.
From his second marriage he had 5 children, including
- Georg Friedrich von Jäger (1785–1866), Senior Medical Officer, paleontologist,
- Gottlieb Friedrich Jäger (1783–1843), professor of philosophy and Ephorus of the Tübingen monastery.
Christian Friedrich Jäger was a step-cousin of Friedrich Hölderlin's mother, Johanna Christiana Gok, widowed Hölderlin, b. Heyn, his father a great uncle by marriage of Hölderlin and his doctor in Nürtingen and monastery doctor in Denkendorf (Württemberg) . His sons were Holderlin's second step-fathers. Karl Christoph Friedrich Jäger referred to him as a “compatriot and cousin”, ie as distant relatives. Remarkably, for a time Hölderlin lived near his "cousin" Gottlieb Friedrich Jäger, who worked as Ephorus of the Evangelical Monastery of Tübingen , for rent from master carpenter Ernst Friedrich Zimmer (1772–1838).
Freemasons
Christian Friedrich Jäger belonged to the Masonic lodge "To the Three Cedars" in Stuttgart, which existed from 1774 to 1784. Its members were often important for the literary and intellectual history of Württemberg.
Honors
Christian Friedrich Jäger was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Royal Order of Civil Merit in 1806, with which the elevation to the personal nobility was connected. On July 25, 1806 he was elected member ( matriculation no. 1034 ) Leopoldina with the nickname Theon II. In the same year he received the Cothenius Medal of the Leopoldina.
literature
- Gerhard Fichtner: Christian Friedrich von Jäger. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 267 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Reinhard Breymayer : Freemasons at the gates of the Tübingen monastery: Masonic influence on Hölderlin? In: Sönke Lorenz and Volker [Karl] Schäfer in connection with the Institute for Historical Regional Studies and Historical Auxiliary Sciences at the University of Tübingen (ed.): Tubingensia: Impulse for City and University History . Festschrift for Wilfried Setzler on his 65th birthday (= Tübingen modules for regional history , 10). Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7995-5510-4 , pp. 355-395, here pp. 365 and 378.
- 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. 243 ( digitized version ).
- Frank Raberg : Died 200 years ago: Christian Friedrich von Jäger . In: Moments - Contributions to regional studies of Baden-Württemberg , No. 3/2008, p. 24.
Web links
- Member entry of Christian Friedrich von Jäger (senior) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 21, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hölderlin: Complete Works , Stuttgart Edition , Vol. 6, 1, pp. 103, 43–45; Vol. 6, 2, pp. 654, 19-27.
- ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual 1808, page 31
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jäger, Christian Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Theon II .; Hunter, Christian Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1739 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1808 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |