Daniel Wilhelm Nebel

Daniel Wilhelm Nebel

Daniel Wilhelm Nebel (born January 1, 1735 in Heidelberg ; † July 3, 1805 there ) was a German physician and chemist and former rector of Heidelberg University .

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Nebel was the son of Heidelberg physician and university professor Wilhelm Bernhard Nebel and Maria Elisabeth Wilhelmy (1705–1790), a daughter of the Palatinate War Council and envoy to the imperial court, Johann Wilhelm Wilhelmy. His grandfather Daniel Nebel was already a doctor and rector of Heidelberg University several times.

After leaving school, studied mist from about 1755 medicine and chemistry at the Universities of Goettingen, Leiden, Utrecht and Strasbourg and graduated in 1758 with the promotion of Dr. med. from. He then practiced in Heidelberg and initially worked as a private lecturer. In 1766, Nebel was hired as an associate professor of medicine at the University of Heidelberg and in 1771 was taken on as a full professor of medicine and chemistry. He twice turned down an offer from Harderwijk University , which wanted to appoint him in 1763 as the successor to Johann Hendrik van Lom (1704–1763) and in 1771 for Hendrik van Haastenburg (1724–1769). In 1774, 1778, 1782, 1786, 1790, 1794, 1798 and 1802, Nebel took over the office of Dean of the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University and was elected Rector of the University in 1777, 1793 and 1801. He was the last rector of the university before the rectorate was held by the electors themselves from 1802 as part of the renewal of the university and from 1806 by the grand dukes of Baden .

At the university, Nebel laid the foundation for the development of the departments of clinical chemistry and pharmacology . He attracted particular attention with the sensational discovery of a lithopedionist in Susanne Stolberg (1675–1767), the wife of a Heidelberg high school professor who later became known as the “Nebelsche Steinkind”. He summarized his findings about this in the essay " fetus ossei per quinquaginta quatuor annos extra uterum in abdomine detenti historia ", which he published in 1770 in the Acta Academiae Theodoro-Palatinae in Mannheim . The rare specimen obtained post mortem as part of an autopsy is in the possession of the University's Institute of Pathology. Daniel Wilhelm Nebel had to carry out his experiments in his private apartment. The laboratory, which had been set up by Johann Conrad Brunner , was in a desolate condition and, as it was already half-ruined, could no longer be used.

For his services, Nebel was accepted into the Paris Academy of Sciences and the Palatinate Academy of Sciences .

Daniel Wilhelm Nebel was married to Maria Christina Hettenbach (1738–1784) for the first time and after her death married her younger sister Catharina Elisabeth Hettenbach (1753–1788). After the first marriage had remained childless, he and Catharina Elisabeth had their son Johann Daniel Nebel (1785–1841), who also studied medicine and later became the Medical Councilor of Baden .

Daniel Wilhelm Nebel was among other things the teacher of Franz Anton Mai , a Heidelberg university professor for obstetrics and rector of the University of Heidelberg. In old age, Daniel Wilhelm Nebel, as a senior of the faculty, plagued by diseases of old age, hardly appeared.

Writings / works (selection)

• Disquisitio mechanica de potentiis oblique agentibus,: quam… praeside Joanne Davide Hahn , Utrecht 1755/1756
• Dissertatio inauguralis philosophica de magnete artificiali , Utrecht 1756
• De electricitatis usu medico , Heidelberg 1758
• Fetus ossei per quinquaginta quatuor annos extra uterum in abdomine detenti historia , Munich 1767
• Dissertatio de cardialgia haemorrhoidali , Mannheim 1769
• Dissertatio medica inauguralis nonnulla De haemorrhoidibus , Heidelberg 1775
• Dissertatio inauguralis chemico-medica de ferro , Heidelberg 1780
• De acutorum morborum solutionibus , Heidelberg 1781
• Descriptio atque sectio anatomica infantis trimestis sine vesica urinaria nati , Munich 1782
• Observationum medico-practicarum biga , Heidelberg 1786/1787
• Dissertatio inauguralis medica, sistens momenta quaedem circa regimen aegrorum , Heidelberg 1789
• De apoplexia ex abscessu cerebri lethalis , Heidelberg 1790
• Hippocratis doctrina semiotica de spasmis atque convulsionibus , Marburg 1791
• Dissertatio inauguralis medica de vitiis papillarum mammarum lactationem impedientibus eorumque medela , Heidelberg 1793
• Dissertatio inauguralis medica sistens Analecta quaedam de opio , Heidelberg 1797

literature

• Wilhelm Doerr : Semper Apertus. Six hundred years of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 1386 to 1986 , Springer Verlag 2013, Volume 1, pp. 61/62 digitized
• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberg scholars lexicon . Springer Verlag 2013, pp. 189/190 digitized
• Georg Ludwig Menzer, Tribal history of the Nebel family . Gluing 1937
• University of Heidelberg (ed.): A Heidelberg dynasty spanning 200 years. Alumni families have taught at Ruperto Carola for several generations ; on Daniel Wilhelm Nebel p. 49, in: HAIlife, Heidelberg Alumni International , Magazin 2016, p. 48/49. Online: Eine Heidelberg Dynasty , accessed on December 29, 2016.

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Heidelberg History Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden (van der Aa)
2. ^ E. Stübler: Das Nebelsche Steinkind and the Nebel family of doctors , Archive for the History of Medicine, Volume 18, Issue 1 of March 31, 1926, pp. 103-106.
3. ^ Heinrich Krebs and Heinrich Schipperges : Heidelberger Chirurgie 1818–1968. A commemorative publication for the 150th anniversary of the Surgical University Clinic , Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1968, p. 23.
4. ^ Heinrich Schipperges : Doctors in Heidelberg. A chronicle from "Homo Heidelbergensis" to "Medicine on the move". , Edition Braus Heidelberg 1995, with insert Wolfgang U. Eckart 2006, on Daniel Wilhelm Nebel p. 101. ISBN 3-89466-125-9 .