Christian Hölmann

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Christian Hölmann (born December 28, 1677 in Breslau ; † January 28, 1744 there ) was a physician and poet .

The poet

A scholarship made it possible for Christian Hölmann to attend the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau. His teachers there included Christian Gryphius and Kaspar Neumann . And one of his classmates was Christian Wolff . From 1699 he studied medicine at the University of Wittenberg . Like his fellow students Michael Richey , Barthold Feind and Ephraim Gerhard, Hölmann also wrote lyrical poems. He was friends with Christoph Gottehr Burkhart , who, like him, came from Silesia . Hölmann published the extensive collection of these gallant poems in 1704 and 1705 in volumes IV and V of the Neukirch collection. This was by Benjamin Neukirch first with first editions of Hofmann of Hofmannswaldau been launched and is the most important collection of late Baroque poetry. Volume VI of this collection also contains numerous poems by Hölmann, whose literary reputation goes back almost exclusively to his work in these early years.

The doctor

In 1706 Christian Hölmann enrolled at the University of Padua and in 1707 he received his doctorate there. After settling down as a doctor in Breslau, he went to Rosenberg in Upper Silesia in 1708 and fought against the epidemic as a plague doctor in the Lower Silesian-Polish border area in Fraustadt and the surrounding area from 1709 . He himself survived two infections . His precise medical records of the plague epidemics were widely used. Through Johann Georg Kulmus , a Polish personal physician and father of Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched , he came to Danzig during the plague period from 1709 to 1711 . And another wave of plague in Vienna prompted Emperor Karl VI. to call the specialist to the Danube in 1714 . As a successful and respected doctor, he then lived primarily in Lissa . Before he turned 66, he decided to return to his hometown of Wroclaw. Christian Hölmann died a few weeks later. His tomb is in the Church of St. Maria Magdalena.

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SURNAME Hölmann, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and medic
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1677
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1744
Place of death Wroclaw