Daniel Georg Balk
Daniel Georg Balk (also Daniel George Balk; born June 23, 1764 in Königsberg , Kingdom of Prussia , † beginning of 1826 in Tula , Russian Empire ) was a German physician.
Life and science
Daniel Georg Balk was born as the son of the amber turner Daniel Georg Balk and his wife Sophie Dorothea Balk, b. Porsch, born in Königsberg. Daniel Georg Balk received his first lessons at home and at the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg. From 1780 he studied medicine in Königsberg and Berlin . In 1787 he received his doctorate in medicine and surgery in his hometown. Then he moved to the Baltic States . Balk was initially a private doctor in Goldingen in Kurland ( Kuldīga in Latvia ) and in Suwenischki ( Suvainiškis in Lithuania ). From 1796 to 1799 he was a district physician in Jakobstadt (Latvian Jēkabpils ), from June 1799 a doctor in the sulfur health resort Baldohn (Latvian Baldone ) and from 1799 to 1802 in Selburg (Latvian Sēlpils ).
From 1802 to 1817 Balk was a full professor of pathology , [medical] semiotics and therapy at the university in the Livonian village of Dorpat (Estonian Tartu ). The Imperial University of Dorpat was re-established in 1802 by the Russian Tsar Alexander I as a German-speaking university in the Tsarist Empire . From August 1, 1803 to August 1, 1804, Balk was the second rector of the university after the physicist Georg Friedrich Parrot . Balk was a councilor and held the office of dean of the medical faculty four times (1804/05, 1808/09, 1811/12 and 1815/16). The founding of the university hospital in Tartu on May 1, 1804 goes back to Balk. Balk is also considered the founder of anthropology at the University of Tartu.
In 1817 Balk moved to the interior of Russia without his family. He died in early 1826 in Tula, central Russia .
Balk was married to Anna Katharina Räseke from Königsberg.
Works
The best-known work of Daniel George Balks were the excerpts from the diary of a practicing doctor about various objects of the science of medicine (first collection Berlin 1791, second collection Libau 1796).
In addition to numerous medical treatises, Balk also wrote occasional poetry on festive events.
literature
- Viktor Kalnin: Daniel Georg Balk. In: Viktor Kalnin (ed.): Eesti arstiteaduse ajaloost. Tartu 1996, pp. 25-29.
- Album rectorum Universitatis Tartuensis 1632–1997. Tartu 1997.
- Jaan Kasmel, Tiiu Kasmel: On Prof. Daniel Georg Balk (1764-1826), supervisor of Karl Ernst von Baer's doctoral thesis. In: Papers on Anthropology. Vol. XXI (2012), pp. 123-136.
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 168 f .
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Daniel Georg Balk. In: BBLD - Baltic biographical lexicon digital
- Works by Daniel Georg Balk in the holdings of the Estonian National Library in Tallinn
- Entry in EEVA
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Balk, Daniel Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Balk, Daniel George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsberg , Kingdom of Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1826 |
| Place of death | Tula , Russian Empire |