Christian Heinrich Erndel

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Christian Heinrich Erndel (* 1676 in Dresden ; † March 17, 1734 ibid) was a royal Polish and Electoral Saxon personal physician to August the Strong . He was also a botanist and meteorologist in Dresden and Warsaw .

Life

family

Erndel coat of arms

Christian Heinrich Erndel (also Erndl, Erndtel) was born in Dresden in 1676 as the seventh of twelve children. His parents were Dr. med. Henry III. Erndel (born June 17, 1638 in Dresden , † September 13, 1693 in Dresden), on Berreuth near Dippoldiswalde and Mulda near Freiberg , royal Polish & Electoral Saxon personal physician , married since September 4, 1665 in Dresden to Sophia Elisabeth Erndel, nee. Ratke (born July 8, 1642 Dresden, † June 10, 1685 to Berreuth), a daughter of Martin Ratke, Elector Johann Georg I . and II . to Saxony secret valet. Erndel's mourning poem for his deceased father reads as follows: “I have not yet seen anyone die in this world, And oh must it! First of all, look at my father! ”He and his brother, who later became Major General Christian Friedrich Erndel , received as guardian Johannes Seebisch (* December 12, 1634 in Zwickau ; † 1700 in Dresden), archdeacon at the Kreuzkirche in 1670 and city ​​preacher in 1697 as an orphan in Dresden.

Erndel's paternal grandfather was the personal physician Heinrich II. Erndel , the great-grandfather Heinrich I. Erndel (baptized on July 15, 1569 in Regensburg ; buried on July 15, 1623 in the church in Wolfenbüttel ), was imperial. Personal and court pharmacist in Prague of Rudolf II. Emperor of the HRR († 1612) and Matthias, Emperor of the HRR († 1619) from whom he received a nobility diploma in 1617 . He was a brother-in-law of Andreas Raselius Ambergensis , husband of Maria Erndl. Heinrich's father Matthis "Mattäus" Erndl was the owner of the pharmacy on the (coal) market - later known as the "Mohrenapotheke" in Regensburg.

Kohlmarkt 6 in Regensburg, until 1860 Mohrenapotheke

As a brother-in-law, Erndel had:

  1. Johann George Seidel (born February 18, 1658 in Zschopau ; † April 13, 1739 in Meißen ), buried in the church of St. Afra , where he worked as a deacon, married to Maria Sophia geb. Erndel;
  2. the lawyer Caspar Christian Kober, who owned a vineyard near Kötzschenbroda , today called Minckwitzscher Weinberg , (born July 9, 1663 in Naumburg , † September 11, 1738 in Dresden, buried in the church of Kötzschenbroda ), married in first marriage to Johanna Sophia born Erndel;
  3. Christian August Fischer († September 1739), royal. Polish & Saxon. Landrentmeister, chamber assistant and mountain ridge, married to Christina Sophia geb. Erndel; and
  4. the royal. Polish & Saxon. appointed coin guard of the Upper Saxon district, Johann Georg Schomburg (* approx. 1672; † October 1745 in Dresden, buried on October 9, 1745 in the Sophienkirche ibid) married to Magdalena Sophia geb. Erndel.

Erndel was married to Dorothee Salome NN, she died in the Schloßgasse in Dresden and was buried in the catacombs of the Frauenkirche there on September 7, 1755. She was 48 years old and widowed for over 21 years. The marriage was childless.

Career

Education

Relation of a Journey (1706-7) Mr. Hilcken & personal physician Hiarne

One year and two months after his father's death, Christian Heinrich Erndelius Dresdensis enrolled in Wittenberg on November 16, 1694 . He then studied at the University of Altdorf , where he matriculated in 1699. On February 10, 1700, his dissertation in Latin was published at the University of Leipzig : Dissertationem De Usu Historiae Naturalis Exotico-Geographicae In Medicina, Consensu Inclytissimae Facultatis Philosophicae Lipsiensis, Ad d. February 10th ARSMDCC. Publicae Eruditorum Censurae subiicit, Christianus Henricus Erndl / Dresdensis… Respondente Daniele Kießling / Budissa-Lus. On September 23, 1701 he held his lecture pro loco in Leipzig for admission to the medical faculty: Disp. med. ex veneno salutem sistens. Then the matriculation took place.

Personal physician

Erndel was the personal physician of the Polish King and the Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong . He worked in Dresden and Warsaw.

Europe trip

De flora Japanica (1716)

Erndel described his experiences on his trip to England and Holland in Latin, Relatio de itinere suo Anglico et Batavo 1706–7 (Dresden 1710), translated into English as The Relation of a Journey Into England and Holland, in the Years, 1706 and 1707 By a Saxon Physician . He told with enthusiasm and a. through his relative Christoph Wilhad Hilcken (* 1664 in Hamburg; † December 16, 1717 in Hamburg), judge at the Hamburg lower court, senior secretary of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, and member of the Fruit-Bringing Society , which he visited in Hamburg. In 1699 Hilcken was elected executor of the will of the professor at the Academic Gymnasium Vincent Placcius (born February 7, 1642 in Hamburg; † April 6, 1699 in Hamburg; lawyer, librarian, educator, philosopher and writer) and in 1704 handed over his book collection of 4,000 volumes the Hamburg city library . Hilcken's wife, Christina Maria Hilcken b. Daurer (born October 4, 1686 in Stockholm, † July 9, 1715 in Hamburg), was a second cousin of Erndel. At Hilcken's trip he also met the royal Swedish personal physician Urbanus Hiarne.

Naturalist

Warsavia Physice Illustrata (1730)

De flora Japonica, Codice bibliothecae Regiae Berolinensis rarissi was published by Erndel in Dresden in 1716. Afterwards Erndel moved to Warsaw. In addition to caring for the royal health, Erndel ran a private practice in Warsaw and explored nature. In addition to the general description of the city, he was particularly interested in the flora in the Warsaw area, especially on the banks of the Vistula. He collected his long-term observations and descriptions of nature in a work published in Dresden in 1730, Warsavia Physice Illustrata, Sive De Aere, Aquis, Locis Et Incolis Warsaviae, Eorundemque Moribus Et Morbis Tractatus; Cui Annexum Est Viridarium, Vel Catalogus Plantarum Circa Warsaviam Nascentium

Warsavia Physice Illustrata was only the second treatise on the subject in history. The list of plants that Erndel produced includes over 900 species. One of the passages concerns the first documented palaeontological research that he carried out on the bank of the Vistula . The fossils of prehistoric animals that were discovered at that time were brought to Dresden, where they formed the core of one of the collections presented in the Zwinger. He also described his experiences in Warsaw with August the Strong.

In 1733 published Erndel De plantis about thermos Teplicenes crescentibus , the Academy of curiosity of nature, a catalog of plants near the third volume of the process Töplitz (Teplitz / Teplice in Bohemia grow). His grandfather Heinrich II. Erndel was the personal physician of Wilhelm Graf Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau , owner of Teplitz until 1634 .

First meteorologist in Warsaw

Meteorological data, Warsaw (January 1725)

Erndel was also the first to make systematic weather observations in Warsaw. The air pressure, temperature, wind and cloud readings recorded daily by him for four years - from 1725 to 1728 - were the first statistics of this kind in the history of the city.

Demise

In 1730 Erndel left Warsaw and returned to his hometown Dresden. He died of hemorrhage on March 17, 1734 and was buried on March 21, 1734 in the Fischer'schen Schwibbogen in front of the Wilsdruffer Tor on the Alte Annenfriedhof .

Honors

On December 17, 1716 he was elected member ( matriculation no. 323 ) of the Leopoldina with the surname Arantius .

Works

  • Dissertationem De Usu Historiae Naturalis Exotico-Geographicae In Medicina, Consensu Inclytissimae Facultatis Philosophicae Lipsiensis, Ad d. February 10th ARSMDCC. Publicae Eruditorum Censurae… - Scholvinius: Lipsiae. 1700.
  • Disputatio Medica [!] Ex Veneno Salutem sistens, Quam Indultu Gratiosissimæ Facultatis Medicæ, Pro Loco In eadem suo tempore otinendo, defendcet D. XXIII. Septembr. M. DCCI. … Christianus Henricus Erndl, Dresdensis, Philos. & Medic. Doctor, Respondente Tobia Taut, Gedanensi., Christian Heinrich Erndtel; Wilhelm Ludwig Daser; Tobias Taut, Lipsiae Scholvien. 1701.
  • CHED De Itinere Suo Anglicano Et Batavo Annis MDCCVI et MDCCVII Facto Relatio Ad Amicum DGKAC Erndtel, Christian Heinrich. [Sl]: 1710 ( The relation of a journey into England and Holland, in 1706, and 1707. 1711 By Ch. Ed. Physician in ordinary to the King of Poland ). 1710.
  • De flora Japonica, Codice bibliothecae Regiae Berolinensis rarissi. 1716.
  • Warsavia Physice Illustrata, Sive De Aere, Aquis, Locis Et Incolis Warsaviae, Eorundemque Moribus Et Morbis Tractatus; Cui Annexum Est Viridarium, Vel Catalogus Plantarum Circa Warsaviam Nascentium. 1730.
  • De plantis circa thermos Teplicenes crescentibus. (Historical-biographical concise dictionary of the most memorable, famous and notorious people of all classes, times and nations. By Karl Florentin Leidenfrost, second volume, Can – Gz. Ilmenau 1824, printed and published by Bernhard Friedrich Voigt. Page 362) and ( Biographie médicale, Volume 2 by Antoine Laurent Jessé Bayle, Paris, 1841; page 377: Erndtel a publié en 1733, dans le troisieme volume des actes de l'Academie des Curieux de la nature, un catalog des plantes qui croissent pres de Toeplitz. ) 1733.

literature

  • 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. 207 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Funeral sermon for Heinrich Erndel from file no. 4067 of inventory 20532 Rittergut Rötha with Trachenau, Saxon State Archives, Leipzig
  2. ^ Funeral sermon by Sophia Elisabeth Erndel geb. Rathke, author: Lucius, Christian, 1627–1690. Baumann, Dresden 1685 http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/lpr-stolb-8761/start.htm
  3. ↑ Funeral sermon for Heinrich Erndel from file no. 4067 of inventory 20532 Rittergut Rötha with Trachenau, Saxon State Archives, Leipzig
  4. ↑ http://www.archion.de/p/86bff0f9db/
  5. ^ Funeral sermon Heinrich Erndel; Author: Widesburgius, Henricus. Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, call number I 273a. 4 ° Helmst. (16)
  6. ^ Austrian State Archives, Vienna, signature: AT-OeStA / HHStA RHR Judicialia APA 50-35
  7. ^ Austrian State Archives, Vienna, signature: AT-OeStA / HHStA RHR Grat et Feud Doctors and Medicinal Privileges 3-12
  8. ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner (Ed.): Studbook of the blossoming and dead nobility in Germany ..., Volume 1.
  9. ↑ Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. With the participation of the K. Saxon Antiquities Association. Published by the K. Saxon Ministry of the Interior. Thirty-ninth issue: Meißen (city, suburbs, Afra Freiheit and Wasserburg). Edited by Cornelius Gurlitt. Commissioned by CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1917.
  10. ↑ Dresden weekly timesheet signature 2.1.3.C.XXI.20-28
  11. ↑ https://www.frauenkirche.de/geschichte.html , Erndels, Dorothea Salome; Kgl. Personal doctor widow; † September 7th, 1755. Register of the 244 people buried in the catacombs of the Dresden Frauenkirche
  12. ^ Album Academiae Vitebergensis: Younger Series, Part 2 (1660–1710), (Erndl) Erndelius, Christian Henricus, Dresd. Misnicus 11/16/1694
  13. ↑ http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/content/pageview/3545453 , 1698 X. 26 - 1699 V. 30, page 461, register of the University of Altdorf, V. 30. Christianus Henricus Erndl, Dresden .
  14. ↑ DNB 1063398940 Title: Dissertationem De Usu Historiae Naturalis Exotico-Geographicae In Medicina, Consensu Inclytissimae Facultatis Philosophicae Lipsiensis, Ad d. February 10th ARSMDCC. Publicae Eruditorum Censurae subiicit, Christianus Henricus Erndl / Dresdensis… Respondente Daniele Kießling / Budissa-Lus., Erndtel, Christian Heinrich, Kießling, Daniel, Rivinus, Augustus Quirinus (Dedicatee). Scholvinius, Leipzig 1700.
  15. ↑ Erndtel, Christian Heinrich. Scholvinus, Leipzig (1701).
  16. ↑ Christian Heinrich Erndtel. In: Konrad Krause: Alma mater Lipsiensis: History of the University of Leipzig from 1409 to ... page 82.
  17. ↑ Catalogo del fondo Haller della Biblioteca nazionale braidense di Milano, part 4. Biblioteca nazionale braidense, Maria Teresa Monti F. Angeli, 1994.
  18. ↑ Christina Maria Hilcken b. Daurer * October 4, 1686 Stockholm † July 9, 1715 in Hamburg. V: Jacob Daurer * February 17, 1649 Stockholm † June 16, 1713 Stockholm, diplomat, ennobled. GV: Georg Christian Daurer * December 6th, 1618 Prague † March 16, 1664 Stockholm, pharmacist. UrGV Georg Daurer, pharmacist in Prague, Magdeburg, most recently married at Speersort in Hamburg. with UrGM: Jacobina Daurer geb. Erndel christened September 3, 1596 Regensburg † November 28, 1668 Hamburg, To. by Heinrich Erndel (1569–1623) & Jacobina Erndel born. Haller (1570-1603) To. of the Fuggerian factor, Kaiserl. & Bavarian Council, member of the Augsburg Kaufleutestube Nikolas Haller. Source: Family table by Roderick Hinkel
  19. ↑ Warsavia physice illustrata: sive, De aere, aquis, locis et incolis Warsaviae, eorundemque moribus tractatus. Cui annexum est viridarium, vel catalogus plantarum circa Warsaviam nascentium… Christian Heinrich Erndl, Apud Joh. Christoph. Zimmermanni haered. & Joh. Nicol. Gerlachium, 1730.
  20. ↑ http://www.sb-verlag.de/programm/070/PDFs/Warschau-104-107.pdf
  21. ^ Member entry by Christian Heinrich Erndel at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Erndel, Christian Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erndl, Christian Heinrich; Erndtel, Christian Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon personal physician, botanist and meteorologist in Dresden and Warsaw
DATE OF BIRTH 1676
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1734
Place of death Dresden