Daniel Crüger

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Daniel Crüger (born December 11, 1639 in Stargard ( Western Pomerania ), † March 15, 1711 ) was a German physician and poet of the Baroque period.

Crüger had studied medicine at the universities of Frankfurt and Jena , in Jena with Johann Theodor Schenck . In 1664 he published an inaugural dissertation with Schenck entitled Dissertatio inauguralis de colica . In 1666 he received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Altdorf . After completing his studies, he established himself as a general practitioner in Kolberg . He then practiced in Stargard in Western Pomerania , where he was also the personal physician of the Elector of Brandenburg. He conducted medical research and developed drugs against typhus as well as against syphilis . In 1685 he was accepted as the 133rd member of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists . In addition to his work as a doctor, he worked as a writer and poet. Crüger corresponded with scientists of his time, including in 1699 with the astronomer and calendar maker Gottfried Kirch (1639-1710).

Fonts (selection)

  • Faithful Lessons from the Plague , Stargard 1705 (40 pages) - ( full text )
  • Poem of lament and consolation about the painful stepping down of his high patron and patron, the weyland Mr. Niclaus Ernst von Natzmer , September 1702 (four pages).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur: History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Jena 1860, p. 196.
  2. ↑ Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General learned lexicon . Volume 1, Leipzig 1750, column 2228.
  3. ↑ cf. z. B. Christoph Gritanner: Treatise on the venous disease . Volume 2, Göttingen 1789, p. 339 , or Gustav Simon: The extirpation of the spleen in humans according to the current standpoint of science . Glessen 1857, p. 88 ff.
  4. ^ Johann Christian Poggendorff : Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences . Volume 1, Leipzig 1863, p. 1786.
  5. ^ Member entry by Daniel Crüger at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 25, 2016.
  6. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Herbst: The correspondence of the astronomer and calendar maker Gottfried Kirch (1639-1710). Letters 1689–1709 . 2006 (550 pages). No. 681: letters dated 14./24. September 1699, received on September 24th / 5th October 1699.
personal data
SURNAME Crüger, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1639
PLACE OF BIRTH Stargard in Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1711