Christoph Martin Burchard

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Christoph Martin Burchard

Christoph Martin Burchard , also ( Latinized ) Christophorus Martinus Burchardus (born April 1, 1680 in Kiel , † February 14, 1742 in Rostock ) was a German doctor and university professor .

Life

Christoph Martin Burchard was the 14th child of the theologian and pastor at the Nikolaikirche Kiel Matthias Burchard († 1679) and his wife Anna Katharine March († 1684), the granddaughter of the Kiel professor of medicine Caspar March .

Burchard received lessons from private teachers and attended the Kiel city school. At the age of 12 he came to the educational institution of his uncle Georg Heinrich Burchard, who was provost of the consistory in Segeberg and the first preacher in Heiligenhafen . This was followed by medical studies at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , especially with Günther Christoph Schelhammer . Further studies took him to Saxon universities and to Holland, where he stayed with the anatomist Frederik Ruysch in Amsterdam. There was an educational trip to Denmark and Sweden before moving to Kiel to new trials in 1704 for Schelhammer licentiate doctorate of medicine.

In 1708 he was appointed extraordinary professor of medicine in Kiel. In July 1716 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In September 1716 he was appointed councilor professor of medicine at the University of Rostock as successor to the late Wilhelm David Habermann and at the same time appointed Rostock city ​​physician . In 1720 he moved to Tönning as a city physician , but in 1721 he returned to his previous positions in Rostock. He was also the librarian of the Rostock Academic Library from 1740 to 1742. Burchard held the position of rector of the university in 1720, 1726, 1732 and 1738 .

From the end of 1715, Burchard was married to Henrike Maria Schelhammer (1684-1720), the daughter of the above Kiel professor and his wife Maria Sophia Conring . After the early death of his wife, Burchard married in February 1721 in Tönning Katharina Burgund (1692–1740), widow of the Tönning pharmacist Michael Wassenberg (1679–1719) and daughter of the Tönning mayor Friedrich Gerbrand Burgund and his wife Katharina Oven. The daughter Justine Margarethe Sophie came from the first marriage. Children of the second marriage were the sons Julius Ludwig (1723–1771), Dr. and Senator in Rostock; Ernst Friedrich (1724–1749), Dr. med. in Rostock; Johann Gottlieb (1732–1785), Dr. jur. in Rostock; August Christian (* around 1737).

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1626 .
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1929, p. 241.
  • Paul Falkenberg : The professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900. Manuscript, around 1900
  • Johann Bernhard Krey : In memory of the Rostock scholars from the last three centuries. Volume 6. Adler, Rostock 1815, pp. 61–64. ( Google Books ).
  • August Hirsch (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume 1. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1884, p. 621 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
  • Something of learned Rostock things. Volume 6 (1742). Warningck, Rostock 1742, pp. 420-426. ( Online resource at RosDok)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See literature: JB Krey: In memory of the Rostock scholars… p. 62. and Something from learned Rostock things… p. 422 f.
personal data
SURNAME Burchard, Christoph Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burchardi, Christoph Martin; Burchardus, Christophorus Martinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1742
Place of death Rostock