Christoph Nicolaus Leppentin

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Doctoral thesis by Christoph Nicolaus Leppentin, Halle 1771

Christoph Nicolaus Leppentin (* 1736 in Hamburg ; † October 5, 1809 in Ludwigslust ) was a German doctor and writer in Hamburg

Life

Christoph Nicolaus Leppentin was born as the son of a Hamburg official surgeon. He studied human medicine at the Universities of Göttingen , Uppsala (with Carl von Linné ) and Halle . In Halle he was awarded Dr. med. PhD. Then he was a general practitioner in Hamburg for many years; he specialized in gynecology and obstetrics. From 1779 to 1781 he was a doctor at the Hamburg Poor Institute.

Instigated by Gottfried Joachim Pacher, he was initially a member of an anti-Semitic civic group to expel the merchant Lorenz Levin Salomon Fürst from Hamburg Neustadt, but soon changed his attitude and, citing the Enlightenment ideals of freedom and equality, became an important supporter of the merchant Prince in a lawsuit that lasted for years before the Reich Chamber of Commerce .

In the spring of 1803 he gave up his practice. He moved to Stockelsdorf near Lübeck, from there to Ludwigslust in 1806 . He wrote some gynecological, surgical and medical but also philosophical writings, including in 1788 in the archive for Schwärmerey . A list of his works can be found in the " Lexicon of Hamburg writers ".

From 1771 to 1778 Leppentin was a member of the Hamburg Johannisloge Zur golden Kugel .

Works (selection)

  • Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica De Irritabilitate Ultimo Termino Cognitionis Motus Animalis . University of Halle (Saale), 1771. ( Online )
  • Collection of philosophical knowledge of nature for women . Verlag JG Virchaux, Hamburg 1781. ( online )

literature

  • Axel Wilhelmi: The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin: Herberger 1901, p. 57
  • Scientific journal: Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, Volume 15 (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 1966), p. 308 ( Limited preview at books.google.de )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Heinrich Stöver: Life of the knight Carl von Linné. Hoffman, Hamburg 1792, p. 347
  2. ↑ Gernet: Mittheilungen from the older medicinal history of Hamburg. Hamburg: Mauke 1869, p. 345 f
  3. ↑ Hans Schröder (1866): Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present: Kli – Lyser , Volume 4, p. 442
  4. ^ Wilhelm Graupenstein : History of the St. Johannis Lodge to the golden ball in Hamburg: Handwriting for brothers. Hamburg 1870, p. 165 no.35
personal data
SURNAME Leppentin, Christoph Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leppentin, Christoph Nicolaus; Leppentin, Christoph Nikolaus; Löpentin, Christoph Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1809
Place of death Ludwigslust