Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger

Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger on a painting in the professors' gallery in Tübingen

Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger (born February 18, 1719 in Göppingen ; † April 10, 1772 in Tübingen ) was a German doctor, professor of medicine in Tübingen, ducal Württemberg councilor and personal physician, as well as prorector of the University of Tübingen in 1768/69 .

Life

Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger was the son of Johann Christoph Oetinger II. (1668–1733), town and office clerk in Göppingen, and his second wife (wedding in Stuttgart 1696), Rosina Dorothea Oetinger, born. Wölffing (1676-1727). He enrolled at the University of Tübingen in 1732 , where he became an associate professor in 1760 and a full professor of medicine in 1762. In 1738 he was in Halle an der Saale as Dr. med. been awarded a doctorate. He became a physician in Urach and at the same time in Münsingen . He was also city , official and monastery physicist in Tübingen and Bebenhausen . From November 1, 1768 to May 2, 1769 he was the prorector of the University of Tübingen, while Karl II. Eugen Herzog von Württemberg and Teck officially assumed the post of rector magnificentissimo of the university from November 2, 1767 until his death on October 24, 1793 clothed. His portrait hangs in the professors' gallery in Tübingen .

He became especially important as a teacher of two doctors who advocated animal magnetism :

1. of the Tübingen doctor Christian Friedrich (von) Reuss (1745–1813), who was connected with Heilbronn and the imperial knighthood there, and since 1773 posthumous son-in-law of Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger.

2. the Heilbronn doctor Eberhard Gmelin , whose patients included Friedrich Schiller and Justinus Kerner , as well as patients Lisette Kornacher , Charlotte Elisabethe Zobel and Caroline Heigelin . For a long time Kornacher was seen as "Ur-Käthchen", ie as a model for the literary figure of Käthchen von Heilbronn . (With a term like "Ur-Käthchen" the enthusiasm for advances in the field of paleontology, prehistory and early history contributed.) Today some researchers see Zobel or Heigelin as one of several possible suggestions for the literary figure of Käthchen von Heilbronn .

The Tübingen theology professor Peter Stuhlmacher is one of Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger's descendants . Among Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger's siblings, the pietistic theosophist Friedrich Christoph Oetinger should be emphasized.

literature

Walter Ulmer: Burkhard David Mauchart , Christian Ludwig Moegling, Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger and their work in teaching and research in the field of forensic medicine in Tübingen . Med. Diss. Tübingen 1980.

Individual evidence

↑ Reinhold Scholl: The portrait collection of the University of Tübingen, 1477 to 1927. Writings of the Verein für Württembergische Familienkunde, volume 2, published by K. Ad. Emil Müller, Stuttgart, 1927.
↑ Entry by Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger on Tobias picture.
↑ Reuss published two books in 1778 in which he carefully documented the spread of the magnetic cures by Maximilian Hell , SJ., And Franz Anton Mesmer . Cf. [Christian Friedrich Reuß:] Collection of the latest printed and written messages from Magnet-Curen, especially the Mesmeric ones. Leipzig, from Christian Gottlob Hilschern [Hilscher] , 1778 . - [Edition A:] [3] Bl, 194 p .; [Edition B:] [2] p., 309 p., [2] folded sheets. See the reference to it in Reinhard Breymayer: advertisement section [...]. In: Johann Friedrich Jüdler, Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, Erhard Weigel: Real advantages for information . [...] Rediscovered and ed. by Reinhard Breymayer. Heck, Dußlingen 2014, pp. 163–172, here p. 167. CF Reuss was a cousin of Jakob Gottlieb Reuss (1753–1839), who since 1780 archivist in the knightly canton Kraichgau of the knightly district of Swabia of the imperial knighthood in Heilbronn, since 1795 a consultant there (Legal advisor), 1807–1822 Royal Württemberg Higher Government Council in Stuttgart.
↑ See Reinhard Breymayer : Between Princess Antonia of Württemberg and Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn . News on the magnetic and tension fields of Prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger . Noûs-Verlag Thomas Leon Heck, Dußlingen 2012, p. 7. 15 f. 48. 50 f. 54-57. 81-83. 226. The two brothers Friedrich Christoph Oetinger and Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger were second cousins by marriage of Johann Adam Zobel, the grandfather of the merchant's daughter Charlotte Elisabethe Zobel.

personal data
SURNAME	Oetinger, Ferdinand Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oettinger, Ferdinand C .; Oetinger, Ferdinand C .; Oetinger, Ferdinandus Christophorus; Oettinger, Friedrich C .; Oetinger, Fridericus C .; Oetingerus, Ferdinandus; Christophorus; Oetinger, Frdr. Cph .; Oetinger, Ms. Chr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor, university professor of medicine in Tübingen, councilor and personal physician and rector of the University of Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH	February 18, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goeppingen
DATE OF DEATH	April 10, 1772
Place of death	Tübingen

[1] Reinhold Scholl: The portrait collection of the University of Tübingen, 1477 to 1927. Writings of the Verein für Württembergische Familienkunde, volume 2, published by K. Ad. Emil Müller, Stuttgart, 1927.

[2] Entry by Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger on Tobias picture.

[3] Reuss published two books in 1778 in which he carefully documented the spread of the magnetic cures by Maximilian Hell , SJ., And Franz Anton Mesmer . Cf. [Christian Friedrich Reuß:] Collection of the latest printed and written messages from Magnet-Curen, especially the Mesmeric ones. Leipzig, from Christian Gottlob Hilschern [Hilscher] , 1778 . - [Edition A:] [3] Bl, 194 p .; [Edition B:] [2] p., 309 p., [2] folded sheets. See the reference to it in Reinhard Breymayer: advertisement section [...]. In: Johann Friedrich Jüdler, Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, Erhard Weigel: Real advantages for information . [...] Rediscovered and ed. by Reinhard Breymayer. Heck, Dußlingen 2014, pp. 163–172, here p. 167. CF Reuss was a cousin of Jakob Gottlieb Reuss (1753–1839), who since 1780 archivist in the knightly canton Kraichgau of the knightly district of Swabia of the imperial knighthood in Heilbronn, since 1795 a consultant there (Legal advisor), 1807–1822 Royal Württemberg Higher Government Council in Stuttgart.

[4] See Reinhard Breymayer : Between Princess Antonia of Württemberg and Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn . News on the magnetic and tension fields of Prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger . Noûs-Verlag Thomas Leon Heck, Dußlingen 2012, p. 7. 15 f. 48. 50 f. 54-57. 81-83. 226. The two brothers Friedrich Christoph Oetinger and Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger were second cousins by marriage of Johann Adam Zobel, the grandfather of the merchant's daughter Charlotte Elisabethe Zobel.