Ernst Gottfried Baldinger

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Ernst Gottfried Baldinger. Dot engraving by Konrad Westermeyer.

Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (born May 13, 1738 in Großvargula / Erfurt , † January 2, 1804 in Marburg ) was a German medic.

Life

Ernst Gottfried was a son of the pastor Johann Baldinger and his wife Barbara Sophia Sahl. After attending grammar school in Gotha and Langensalza , his father made him study theology . On May 9, 1754 he went to the University of Erfurt , where he first completed a basic course in philosophy. However, he turned to studying medicine and later studied in Halle (Saale) and Jena , where he obtained his medical doctorate in 1760 . He held private lectures on medicine and made the decision to Erfurt habilitation . During the Seven Years' War he entered the Prussian service as a military doctor.

During this time he witnessed the siege of Torgau and in 1762 obtained permission from his superiors to resume his philosophical and medical studies. On April 30, 1762, he acquired his master's degree in philosophy in Wittenberg and enrolled in Leucorea on October 14, 1762 for further continuation . In 1763 he settled as a doctor in Langensalza, from where he completed his habilitation in 1768. In 1764 he married Friderika Gutbier .

People noticed him not only through his practical work, but also through his literary achievements. Therefore in 1768 he was appointed full professor in Jena. In 1770 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1773 he was called to Göttingen and in 1783 appointed by Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Kassel as the conductor of the state's medical affairs and as a personal physician . From 1775 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

In 1785 he accepted an appointment as the first professor of medicine in Marburg . During his time there, the anatomical theater was rebuilt, the botanical garden enlarged, a chemical laboratory founded, a midwifery institute and a veterinary school established. After a restless life, he died of a heart attack.

Baldinger was one of the most important doctors of his time. Through his writings, he awakened in his contemporaries a sense of the study of classical medicine and of medical literary history. Justus Arnemann , Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann and others were among his students .

His writings belong to different areas of medicine. From 1766 he worked as an editor of various magazines in which he wrote a wealth of historical and literary articles. He was particularly interested in biographical communications and the history of literature. In numerous occasional publications, he conducted, among other things, critical investigations into older medicine.

Baldinger was a member of the Freemason lodge "Friedrich von der Freunds" in Kassel. Baldingerstraße in the Lahnberge university area in Marburg is named after him.

family

Baldinger was married twice. His first wife was Friderika Gutbier (1739–1786), daughter of the pastor Gutbier from Langensalza in 1764 . The couple had six children - four sons and two daughters - of whom only two daughters survived:

  • Sophie Friederike Ernestine (1768–1805), ⚭ 1790 Georg Theodor Christoph Handel (1768–1801), Professor of Medicine, Leibmedicus in Marburg
  • Friederike Wilhelmine Amalie (born October 11, 1769 in Jena; † December 14, 1819 in Darmstadt), ⚭ 1789 Bernhard von Gehren, procurator in Marburg, later attorney at court in Darmstadt

After Friderika's death he married Caroline Lisette Drebing (1753-1809) in 1787. This marriage was without children.

Works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In his dean's doctorate program ( March 18, 1728 is given online )
  2. ^ Intelligence Gazette of the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung from 1804. Volume 1, No. 14, Jena / Leipzig 1804, p. 110 f. ( Deaths ) - ( Google Books ).
  3. ↑ Member entry by Ernst Gottfried Baldinger at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ Heinrich Wilhelm Red Mouth: The learned Hannover , Volume 2, Carl Schünemann: Bremen 1823, p.16 Digitalisat
  5. ^ Karl Goedecke: Outline for the history of German poetry from the sources . 2nd edition, 7th volume, Verlag Ehlermann: Dresden 1900 [Reprint Akademie Verlag: Berlin 2011], p. 255 digitized
personal data
SURNAME Baldinger, Ernst Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1738 or May 18, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Large vargula
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1804
Place of death Marburg