Detmar Wilhelm Soemmerring

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Portrait of Detmar Wilhelm Soemmerring, painting by Carl Friedrich von Stralendorff

Detmar Wilhelm Soemmerring (born June 27,  1793 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 14, 1871 there ) was a German doctor .

Life

Soemmerring was born in 1793 to Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring and the painter and engraver Margarethe Elisabeth Soemmerring . After his mother died in 1802, Carl Ritter , who worked for a befriended family, became his tutor. In 1811, Ritter traveled to Geneva with Soemmerring and one other student to train them there. Soemmerring went to Göttingen as early as 1812 to study medicine. In 1816 he wrote his doctorate there on the anatomy of the eye. After completing his studies, he stayed with his father in Munich for some time and published two scientific papers there. From 1819 he worked as a doctor in Frankfurt. His skills as an ophthalmologist were particularly popular. He lived in Frankfurt until his death in 1871.

He took an active part in scientific life in Frankfurt, around 1824 he was a co-founder of the Physikalischer Verein and worked for Dr. Senckenberg Foundation .

In 1828 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Soemmerring had married the daughter of the doctor Karl Wenzel . Together they had a son, Karl Soemmerring, who worked as an architect. His only grandson Adolph Soemmerring died childless as a student in 1885.

Like his father, Soemmerring was artistically gifted and drew pictures for his own publications.

Works (selection)

  • Investigations with prussic acid and the essential oil of the bitter almonds of dead animals , Munich
  • Experiments on the sulphurous hydric acid with relation to the meconic acid and the morphine , Munich, together with A. Vogel
  • Observations on the organic changes in the eye after cataract operations , Frankfurt, 1828, limited preview in the Google book search
  • Historical notes on the invention of the telegraph , 1863, limited preview in Google Book search
  • Commemorative document for the secular celebration of Dr. Senckenberg Foundation on August 18, 1863, containing S. Th. V. Sömmerring's illustration of the carp brain
  • From 1860 various articles for the journal Der Zoologischer Garten

literature

  • Nekrolog by WH Schmidt in "Report on the Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft 1871/72", by Stricker in "Annual report on the administration of the medicinal system of the city of Frankfurt a. M ". XV. Year 1871. - A. Hirsch, Biogr. Lexikon der Dozte V, 455.
  • Friedrich Jännicke:  Sömmerring, Detmar Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 610.
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 259 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Detmar Wilhelm von Sömmerring at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Soemmerring, Detmar Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sömmerring, Detmar Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1871
Place of death Frankfurt am Main