Christian Friedrich Stromeyer

Christian Friedrich Stromeyer (born March 26, 1761 in Hanover ; † October 26, 1824 there ) was a German court and personal surgeon and father of Louis Stromeyer .

Life

He received his first training at the age of 17 at the surgical school in Braunschweig, and at the age of 20 he became a company surgeon. In 1786 he was given the opportunity to study medicine in Göttingen. A scholarship opened him up to England on July 6, 1792 to supplement his studies. As part of the First Coalition War , he was recalled on January 1, 1793 and came to the Netherlands as a regimental surgeon for the Electorate of Hanover . At the end of 1795 he returned to Hanover where he became hospital director and court surgeon. His health was so bad that he could not open his practice until the end of 1796. From England he took over the vaccination against cowpox as early as 1799 , so that on August 30, 1800, he and Ballhorn were able to report on 700 vaccinated patients.

In 1802 he became a personal surgeon, later the first surgeon at the military hospital .

After his retirement from the practice, Stromeyer reorganized the Hanoverian military medical service.

family

He married on October 29, 1800 Louise Louis (born January 12, 1781; † August 30, 1832), who came from a Huguenot family and whose father was the lottery operator Georg Friedrich Louis († November 4, 1805). The couple had four sons and five daughters (two died young):

• Sophie (November 2, 1802 - July 8, 1872) ⚭ Philipp Paulus Theodor Duerr (October 2, 1793 - December 23, 1874)
• Georg Friedrich Louis (March 6, 1804; † June 15, 1876) ⚭ 1831 Luise Bartels (1807–1890)
• August Friedrich Hillmar (* July 7, 1807; † November 21, 1887) ⚭ Wilhelmina Friederika Bock (* April 17, 1821; † after 1889)
• Karl Ernst Stephan (* September 11, 1810; † May 19, 1892) ⚭ Cacilie Luise Banks (* June 13, 1828; † February 27, 1899)
• Karoline Ernestine (October 2, 1811 - November 17, 1876) ⚭ Gustav Ludewig Werner Hantelmann (February 2, 1799 - September 29, 1878)
• Marie Elisabeth (October 6, 1812; † 1873) ⚭ NN Schmidt (January 2, 1802; † before 1873)
• Ernst Georg Friedrich Louis (January 30, 1815 - March 21, 1886) ⚭ Sophie Friedrike Detmer (September 3, 1830 - August 19, 1897)

Trivia

Stromeyer was also a theater doctor. Three of his former assistants changed branches. His student Johann Christian Gerber , who was also to become a surgeon, preferred to become a theater actor after three years of training - so did the later baritone Wilhelm Vespermann (1784–1834), who was married to the singer Clara Vespermann , and the then well-known comedian Wüstenberg, who were assistants with him.

After unsuccessful attempts at treatment by three dentists, the Pyrmont and Göttingen dentist Jakob Calmann Linderer (actually Callmann Jacob) was able to successfully extract an upper wisdom tooth from him in 1809.

literature

• Walter Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsgg.): German Biographical Encyclopedia ; Munich etc. 1995ff; Vol. 9, p. 593
• Wilhelm Rothert (ed.) And (for vol. 3) A. Rothert and M. Peters (ed.): Hannoversche Biographie . Vol. 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 ; Vol. 2: In the old Kingdom of Hanover, 1814-1866 ; Vol. 3: Hanover under the Kurhut, 1646-1815 ; Hanover; 1912, 1914 and 1916; here: vol. 2, p. 585
• Dirk Böttcher in: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 609.
• Louis Stromeyer . Memories of a German Doctor, Volume 1, p.9f

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joseph Kürschner:  Gerber, Johann Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 722.
2. ↑ Ullrich Rainer Otte: Jakob Calmann Linderer (1771-1840). A pioneer in scientific dentistry. Medical dissertation, Würzburg 2002, p. 27.
3. ↑ Jakob Calmann Linderer: Doctrine of the entire dental operations according to the best sources and our own forty years of experience. Berlin 1834; New print Bremen 1981, p. 145 f.