Erasmus Ludwig Wernberger
Erasmus Ludwig Wernberger (* 1747 in Stier-Höfstetten near Lankheim, then Principality of Ansbach ; † October 2, 1795 in Windsheim ) was a doctor and 2nd city physician of the imperial city of Windsheim. His pamphlet Specifica und Charlatanerie , published anonymously in 1789, is particularly important .
Life
Erasmus Ludwig Wernberger studied medicine at the University of Erlangen , where he received his doctorate in medical science in 1776. From 1778 he was 2nd City Physician in Windsheim. In 1794 he was appointed royal Prussian councilor.
In 1789 he anonymously published the pamphlet Specifica and Charlatanerie , in which he criticized his profession. Some points are still relevant today:
“In our days, old remedies in a new guise often alternate with new ones that quickly become old and forgotten. Both find their praisers; until experience and reading show that they were not what they should have been. "
Some colleagues he described as the dissolute , the excuse Farlässigkeiten in their practice (...) with a time shortly and urgent work.
In doing so, Wernberger made use of the spirit of the Enlightenment , as evidenced by another quote from the work:
“Freedom in thinking and writing is the most sacred and first human right; and as long as you are not looking for your own interest, but for the interest of the truth, you must not make any secret of your insights and convictions. "
Also in 1789 he was accepted as Hermophilus II with the membership number 884 in the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . Wernberger also took part in Adversaria Argumenti Physico Medici by Heinrich Friedrich Delius .
Fonts (selection)
- Attempt to glean from cinnabar. Gain. 1775.
- Contribution of chemical experiments and thoughts, with the intention of a closer knowledge of the Universal Acid. Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1776.
- Observata et Cogitata nonnulla chemica. Erlangen, 1776.
- Specifica and Charlatanerie. Tried and tested by a friend of the truth. Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1789. ( digitized version )
literature
- Clemens Alois Baader : Erasmus Ludwig Wernberger. In: Jenisch, Stage (Hrsg.): Lexicon of deceased Baierischer writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. M - Z. , Augsburg 1824. pp. 318f.
- Werner Binder: Windsheimer Stadtphysicus reads the riot act to colleagues. In: Windsheimer Zeitung , August 28, 2015, special section (without page counting).
Web links
- Literature by and about Erasmus Ludwig Wernberger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Wernberger in the directory of persons in the Bavarian State Library .
- ↑ Binder 2015
- ↑ cf. Baader 1824, p. 319
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wernberger, Erasmus Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1747 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stier-Höfstetten near Lankheim, Principality of Ansbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 1795 |
| Place of death | Windsheim |