Christoph Casimir Lerche
Christoph Casimir Lerche (* October 13 ; other date: October 24, 1749 in Moscow ; † April 13 ; other dates April 15 or April 25, 1825 in St. Petersburg ) was the personal physician of the Russian Emperor Alexander I.
Life
Christoph Casimir Lerche was the son of Johann Jakob Lerche (1708–1780), military doctor and city physician in Moscow and St. Petersburg and his wife Olympe ( * 1714), daughter of Pierre Vincent Possiet de Roussier (1677–1756), director of the imperial Vineyards in Astrakhan .
He attended the Petri School in St. Petersburg and in 1764 came to the Princely School in Neustadt an der Aisch , whose superintendent was his uncle Johann Christian Lerche (1691–1768), whom he attended for seven years. From 1771 he received his medical training in Berlin and began his medical studies at the University of Göttingen the following year , which he continued in 1774 at the University of Strasbourg .
In 1777 he completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen as Dr. med. and received his license to practice medicine in Russia the following year . He began as a military doctor in the St. Petersburg Division and became a general surgeon in the Finnish army and general staff doctor in the Saltykov Corps on the Dvina , and from 1795 also in St. Petersburg and Finland.
In 1797 he was appointed to the court of the future Tsar Alexander I and was his court doctor from 1799 to 1802 and his personal surgeon from 1809.
Christoph Casimir von Lerche was married to Sophia Ulrika, daughter of the staff surgeon Johann Friedrich Hosenfelder. Their daughter was:
- Sophia Helena Lerche (born March 3, 1789 in Wiborg ).
His grave was in the Lutheran Cemetery Volkovo Cemetery in St. Petersburg, but his grave has not been preserved.
Honors
Christoph Casimir Lerche was appointed court counselor , in 1797 a councilor and in 1799 a councilor of state.
Fonts (selection)
- Observationes de cancro mammarum . Dissertation. Goettingen 1777.
literature
- Marta Fischer: Russian Careers: Personal Physicians in the 19th Century . Shaker Verlag, 2010. P. 134 f.
Web links
- Lerche, Christoph Casimir . In: Index entry: German biography .
- Lerche, Christoph Casimir . In: Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig .
Individual evidence
- ^ Baltic family history reports . No. 3 . W. Baron Maydell, 1939, p. 58 ( gda.pl [accessed on May 16, 2019]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lerche, Christoph Casimir |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lerch, Christoph Casimir; Lerch, Kazimir-Christofor; Lerche, Christoph Casimir von; Lerche, Christofor Ivanovič fon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Personal physician to the Russian Emperor Alexander I. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1749 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1825 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |