Christian Julius Frederik de Meza

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Christian Julius Frederik de Meza (born September 4, 1727 in Amsterdam as Salomon Theophilus de Meza , † June 24, 1800 in Copenhagen ) was a Dutch doctor based in Copenhagen.

Life

De Meza was the son of the rabbi Abraham de Meza and his wife Regina, nee. Cahanet Belinfante. Later he added the self-chosen name Theophilus to his first name Salomon, after his baptism he called himself Christian Julius Frederik. He completed his medical studies at the University of Utrecht , where he received his doctorate on June 10, 1749 with the thesis De menstruis . After practicing in Harderwijk , Hamburg and London , he came to Copenhagen in 1753 , where he quickly established a practice and earned a prestigious position among his colleagues. In 1753 he was one of the founding members of the Medicinsk selskab and wrote a few essays, although not all of them were well received. After the death of his wife, he had himself and two of his children baptized by C. Bastholm on October 26, 1783 in Fredensborg. His son Christian Jacob Theophilus de Meza (1756–1844) became a city physician and councilor. His son Christian Julius de Meza was chief general of the Danish troops in the Schleswig-Holstein uprising and in the German-Danish war .

Fonts (selection)

  • De menstruis (1749)
  • Armamentarium medicum (1761)
  • De l'education des enfants (1769)
  • Diatribæ medicæ tres (1775)
  • Opuscula pathologico-practica (1776)
  • Observationes physico-medicæ circa frigus (1776)
  • Compendium medicum practicum per falsciulos distributum (three volumes, 1780–1783)
  • Testamen historiæ medicæ (two volumes, 1791)

literature

Endnotes

  1. ^ Gordon Norrie: Christian Julius Frederik de Meza . In: Svend Cedergreen Bech , Svend Dahl (eds.): Dansk biografisk leksikon . Founded by Carl Frederik Bricka , continued by Povl Engelstoft. 3. Edition. tape 9 : Levi – Moltesen . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1981, ISBN 87-01-77452-2 (Danish, biografiskleksikon.lex.dk ).
  2. ^ Dansk og Norsk Litteraturlexicon. Andes Halvdel: M – Ø. Copenhagen 1819, p. 387.
personal data
SURNAME Meza, Christian Julius Frederik de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meza, Salomon Theophilus de (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch doctor in Copenhagen
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1800
Place of death Copenhagen