Christoph Helwig junior
Christoph Helwig jun. (* December 21, 1679 in Greifswald ; † July 16, 1714 ibid) was a German professor of medicine.
Life
He was the son of Professor of Medicine Christoph Helwig (1642–1690) and his wife Anna Regina, the daughter of Professor Johann Heune from Greifswald . The later Greifswald lawyer Joachim Andreas Helwig (1677–1736) was his brother.
After initial private lessons, he attended the city school in Greifswald. In 1697 he was enrolled at the University of Greifswald and first studied theology; however, medicine after the early death of his older brother. After visiting Wittenberg, Leipzig and Halle , he moved to Jena , where he studied with Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645–1721), an old friend of his father's. He also attended lectures by Johann Philipp Slevogt a . a. He returned to Greifswald on an educational trip to various royal courts.
In 1703 Helwig disputed under Caspar March and received the medical doctorate. Three years later he married Barbara Emerentia Gerdes (1682–1711), the daughter of the lawyer Friedrich Gerdes . 1707 Helwig received a medical professorship. A year after the death of his first wife, he married Regina Emerentia Engelbrecht. He died two years later at the age of 34. He is still known today through the annals of the medical faculty he wrote from 1456–1714 .
See also
literature
- Dirk Alvermann , Birgit Dahlenburg : Greifswald heads. Scholar portraits and life pictures from the 16th to 18th centuries Century from the Pomeranian State University. Hinstorff, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-356-01139-1 , p. 96 f.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Henning Christoph Gerdes | Rector of the University of Greifswald 1711 |
Jeremias Papke |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Helwig, Christoph junior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Helwigius, Christophorus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1679 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greifswald |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1714 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |