Christian Michael Adolphi

Christian Michael Adolphi (born August 14, 1676 in Hirschberg , Silesia , † October 13, 1753 in Leipzig ) was a German doctor .

Life

Christian Michael Adolphi was a son of the rich businessman Balthasar Adolphi zu Hirschberg in Niederlausitz . He attended high school in Breslau , which he graduated from when he was 16 years old. In 1693 he went to Leipzig, where he first studied philosophy , then medicine . In 1701 he heard the lectures of Georg Ernst Stahl and Friedrich Hoffmann in Halle . After a long grand tour through Germany , Switzerland , Holland , France - where he stayed in Paris for eight months - and England, he went to Utrecht , where he received his doctorate in 1702. After a short stay in his hometown, he went to Leipzig in 1703, where he spent the rest of his life. He worked here as a general practitioner and university lecturer, became a member of the women's college in 1706 and was admitted to the Leopoldina in 1713 with the academic surname Aetius II , and entered the medical faculty in 1722. In 1753, at the age of 77, he succumbed to prolonged illness.

In addition to numerous contributions to the 1st, 2nd and 10th volume of the files of the Imperial Academy of Natural Scientists and the Wroclaw Collections, Adolphi wrote 28 small academic writings, preferably dealing with medical geography, balneology and hygiene , which are arranged according to the material in eight fascicles (Leipzig 1725–47). Adolphi was one of the first German doctors to pay attention to medical topography; he wrote about the diseases in Silesia and the health of the mountain air .

Fonts (selection)

• Trias dissertationum physico-medicarum ad chronographiam medicum spectantium. Leipzig 1725.
• Trias dissertationum medicarum ad diaeteticam potissimum spectantium. Leipzig 1726.
• Trias dissertationum medicarum pathologico-therapeuticarum, nimirum de morbis frequentioribus et gravioribus pro sexus differentia. Leipzig 1727.
• De equitationis usu medico. Leipzig 1729.
• Tractatus de fontibus quibusdam soteriis. Leipzig 1733.
• Dissertationes physico-medicae selectae varii argumenti, in universitate Lipsiensi diversis temporibus conscriptae. Leipzig 1747.

literature

• Adolphi (Christian-Michel) In: Nouvelle biographie générale . Volume 1, 1852, Col. 293 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• August Hirsch :  Adolphi, Christian Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 121.
• 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. 205 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• W. Stricker: Adolphi, Christian Michael. In: August Hirsch (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume 1, 1884, p. 61 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 154 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Member entry by Christian Michael Adolphi at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on March 19, 2018.
• Works by and about Christian Michael Adolphi  in the German Digital Library