Christoph Horch

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Christoph Horch (* 1667 in Berlin ; † April 20, 1754 ibid) was a German physician and personal physician to the King of Prussia.

Life

Christoph Horch was the son of a Prussian military surgeon. He studied medicine and then worked at the end of the 17th century and in the first half of the 18th century as a privy councilor and personal physician to the King of Prussia and as senior physician of the Medical College in Berlin.

On May 15, 1692, Christoph Horch with the academic surname Absyrtus I was accepted as a member ( matriculation number 191 ) in the Leopoldina . On June 10, 1719 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

The physician Martin Weise was his great-grandfather. Horch was married to Salome Catharina, b. by Mehn, used Otto. The Prussian civil servant Friedrich Wilhelm Horch (1701–1744) was his son, the doctor Johann Carl Wilhelm Moehsen was his grandson.

Fonts

  • Necessary report explaining the use of some special medicines which were not only used by Sr. Königl. Majesty and the Ober-Collegio-Medico have long been approved, but have also been found proven in 60 years of practice: Described on the establishment of a small travel and home pharmacy. Henning, Berlin 1754 digitized

literature

  • Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 479 digitized
  • 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. 199 digitized
  • Julius Pagel : The development of medicine in Berlin, from the oldest times to the present. A historical sketch .. Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1897 Digitized
  • 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. 151 ( archive.org ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Horch. Members of the predecessor academies. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed April 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Horch, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horch, Christoff; Absyrtus I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and personal physician to the King of Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH 1667
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1754
Place of death Berlin