Christoph von Hellwig

Christoph von Hellwig , before 1716 also Christoph Hellwig (* July 15, 1663 in Kölleda ; † May 27, 1721 in Erfurt ) was a German doctor , city ​​physician to Tennstedt and Erfurt, publicist and creator of a " centenary calendar ". His pseudonyms are Valentin Kräutermann , Caspar Schröder and Constans Alitophilus Hertzberger .

Live and act

The toothbrush monument in honor of Hellwig on the market in Bad Tennstedt

Christoph Hellwig studied medicine in Jena and Erfurt from 1681 to 1688, interrupted by a study trip. He worked as a doctor in Weissensee from 1689 and (as a licentiate) in Frankenhausen from 1693. In 1696 he became a physician in Tennstedt , where he invented a toothbrush around 1700 and put it into circulation.

Works

In 1712 he moved to Erfurt to be able to devote himself better to his publication activities. He wrote his 50 or so works, mostly on popular medicine and mostly compilation, in German.

Hellwig had studied astrological and medical writings.

In 1700 Hellwig shortened the planetary table drawn up and calculated by the abbot for 312 years to one hundred years, namely from 1701 to 1800, and had the calendar printed in 1704. In 1720, the Erfurt publisher Weinmann gave the work the name "Hundred Years Calendar".

Fonts

• Thesaurus Pharmaceuticus, or Apothecker-Schatz: in which, according to the Latin-German and German-Latin alphabet, those items can be found in which Officinis Pharmaceuticis, or pharmacies, are in use; no less also what one has in front of Praeparata, together with the powers, virtues and dosibus added; Why was the tax of each piece set up according to the Leipzig footing added? Everybody useful, special. but necessary for those who devote themselves to the art of noble medicine, pharmacists and surgeons . Groschuff, Leipzig 1711. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Always ready house administrator, representing a perfect flower and kitchen garden book, in addition to regulation of a tree school, in what is to be observed every month through the whole year with the housekeeping and administration. Presented to all curious lovers to great use with strange figures and necessary registers . Ritschel, Frankfurt (Main); Leipzig; Erfurt 1712. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
• L. Christoph Hellwig: Exquisite Teutsch-Medicinisches Recept-Buch [...]. Artzeny remedies against most diseases of male persons [...]. Arnstadt 1715; Reprint Lindau 1979.
• The regnum animale or animal kingdom most commonly used in medicine. Frankfurt / Leipzig 1716. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Well-experienced English and now translated into German Hauß-Dozt: keeping within himself The rarest and most useful cures of the people, in different parts ... Franckfurt 1719. Digitized edition of the University and State Library of Düsseldorf
• Newly discovered secrets of the woman's room ... Frankfurt a. a. 1714 and so on (until 1779).
  • Newly discovered secrecy of the woman's room: consisting of 3 parts, the first of which is a complete description of the creation of human beings, sap of nature, beauty, quality, infirmity and chance. 2. Selected curieuse discussed medical and physical questions, sambt the latest observation bus. 3. Of the diet, the right use of food and drink . 4th edition. Franckfurth: Niedt, 1725. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Valentini Kräutermanns ... A special part of the secrecy of the woman discovered: in which the most healing and proven Artzney remedies for all, the female. To find gender diseases and maladias; treated according to the method of the world-famous Mr. D. Wedelii and other well-known Medicorum; in addition to a double register . Arnstadt 1721. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf .
  • Newly discovered secrets of the woman's room: consisting of 3 parts, the first of which is a complete description of the creation of human beings, including nature, beauty, quality, infirmity and chance. 2. Selected curieuse discussed medical and physical questions, including the latest Observationibus. 3. From the Diaet, right use of food and Tranck as of garden fruit ... . - 6th edition. Arnstadt: Beumelburg, 1746. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf .
• Valentini Kräutermann's faithful, careful and swift children's doctor: who gives the most exquisite, safest and most proven medical and Hauss remedies, in front of all and every diseases of young and adult children, from proven Medicorum writings, partly also from his own experience , but primarily according to the method of the soul. Mr. D. Wedelii, and the necessary registers brought to light . Franckfurth [u. a.]: Niedt, 1722. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Valentini Kräutermann's Curieuser and sensible urine doctor: who one part teaches and shows how one not only thoroughly recognizes most and most distinguished diseases of the human body from the urine according to certain medical rules, but also how to judge them as sensible fall down. On the other hand: How one should also see from the pulse the condition of the blood, the strength and weakness of the spirits of life, the decrease and increase in disease . Franckfurt: Niedt, 1724 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf ); 3. Edition. Arnstadt and Leipzig 1738; 4th edition. Johan Jacob Beumelburg, Frankfurt am Main 1748.
• The curieuse and sensible magic doctor: who teaches and shows how not only ex triplici Regno curieuse Artzneyen can be made, but also through Sympathiam et Antipathiam, Transplantationem, Amuleta et Magiam naturalem, or avoided witchcraft, the most noble diseases of the human body to curry happily could . For the next time brought to light. Franckfurt and Leipzig; Arnstadt: Niedt, 1726. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf .
• Valentin Kräutermann : The sure eye and Uahn doctor, or an accurate description of all and all eye and tooth ailments, along with clear lessons on how such can occur at times, or how to be happily cured. Arnstadt 1732; Reprint Leipzig 1983.
• Newly increased historical-medical regnum minerale or metal and mineral kingdom . - Franckfurt: Niedt, 1726. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• The Praxis-medica [Praxis medica], begun with good reason, cleverness and caution and happily practiced: in which recently, but thoroughly, it is shown what a Neo-Practicus can do before a Selectum with which Medicamentis purgantibus and alternantibus, how he a disease recognize that his indications should be properly formulated and established safely . - Arnstadt: Beumelburg, 1734. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• The stormy but appalled residency of reason or of the memory of how to keep it well into old age, to strengthen what is weakened and to bring back what is lost: in addition to several, in particular, two added universal artisans, they are healthy to a very old age and to maintain youthful strength . Arnstadt: Beumelburg, 1745. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• The curieuse and sensible magic doctor: who teaches and shows how to create art scenes not only ex triplici Regno curieuse, but also through sympathiam et antipathiam, transplantation, amuleta et magiam naturalem, or avoided witchcraft, the most noble diseases of the human body could . 5th edition - Arnstadt: Beumelburg, 1748. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

literature

• A polygraph from Kölleda. Christoph von Hellwig (1663–1721) - doctor and publicist of the Baroque period (Part I). In: Sömmerdaer Heimatheft 10 (1998), pp. 18–36
• Sabine Sander: Hellwig, Christoph (von). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 566.
• Just Christoph Motschmann: Erfordia literata or learned Erffurth [...]. First collection. Erfurt 1729, pp. 135-161.
• Jürgen Strein: Knowledge Transfer and Popular Culture in Early Enlightenment. Life and work of the medical writer Christoph von Hellwig (1663–1721). (= Early modern times. Volume 208). De Gruyter, 2017.

Web links

• Biography on ERFURT-WEB.DE ( Memento from December 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Literature by and about Christoph von Hellwig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Christoph von Hellwig  in the German Digital Library
• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library