Christoph Friedrich Elsner

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Christoph Friedrich Elsner (born January 14, 1749 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † April 19, 1820 there ) was a German physician.

Life

The son of the master baker Friedrich Elsner studied at the University of Königsberg from 1766 . After studying medicine, he received his doctorate in medicine in 1774 and then became a doctor in the Bartenstein district in Bartenstein (East Prussia). In 1785 he received a call as a full professor at the medical faculty in Königsberg, where he became the first full professor in 1805.

In connection with this he was appointed medical councilor and in 1809 a government councilor. Elsnert he was Rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semesters 1791/92, 1795/96, 1799/1800, 1803/04 and 1807/08 and vice-rector in 1811/12.

His son Christoph Johann Heinrich Elsner (1777–1834) also gained importance.

Works

  • Diss. De magnesia Edinburgensi. Koenigsberg 1773
  • Diss. Inaug. Analecta de methodis determinandi medicamentorum virtutes. Koenigsberg 1774
  • Diss. Disquifitionem exhibens: num sulfur internal adhibitum jure medicamentorum habeatur. Koenigsberg 1774
  • Treatise on the chest tan . I attempt at Königsberg 1778
  • Contributions to fever theory. Königsberg 1782 ( online ), 1789
  • Medical and judicial library. 8 St. In 2nd volume Königsberg 1784–1786
  • Diss. De dysenteriae differentiis commentarius primus. Koenigsberg 1786
  • Progr. Spicilegium ad anginam maxillarem. Koenigsberg 1786
  • A couple of words, occasionally written down, about smallpox and its inoculation. Königsberg 1787 ( online )
  • Progr. Colli curvi atque inclinati historia, quae sit testulae meae suffragium de magnetismo animali. Königsberg 1787 ( online )
  • Progr. I & II de lichene Islandico. Koenigsberg 1791
  • Diss. De pneumonia putrida. Koenigsberg 1791
  • Progr. Animadversionum de morbis exanthematicis, Particula I & II. Königsberg 1793
  • About the relations between the doctor, the patient and his relatives. 1. St. Koenigsberg 1794
  • Opuscula academica. Koenigsberg 1800
  • Report on the state of health of the royal province of East Prussia and Litthauen in 1801. Königsberg 1802
  • Oratio de novae pestis Americanae ortu; quam habuit etc. Königsberg 1804

literature

  • Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Verlag Meyerische Buchhandlung, Lemgo, 1796, vol. 2, p. 195 ( online in the Google book search); 1801, vol. 9, p. 290 ( online in the Google book search); 1808, vol. 13, p. 325 ( online in the Google book search); 1820, vol. 17, p. 497 ( online in the Google book search); 1831, Vol. 22, 2nd volume, p. 44 ( online in the Google book search)
  • August Hirsch : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg Publishing House, Vienna / Leipzig 1885, Volume 2, p. 280
  • Jean Eugène Dezeimeris, Ollivier (d'Angers.), Raige-Delorme: Dictionnaire historique de la médecine ancienne et modern. Paris 1834 ( online in Google Book Search, French)
  • August Hirsch:  Elsner, Christoph Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 67.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Old Prussian Biography, Volume 5, Part 1, p. 163
personal data
SURNAME Elsner, Christoph Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1820
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)