Ferdinand Jahn
Ferdinand Jahn (born May 28, 1804 in Meiningen ; † May 30, 1859 there ) was a German physician and medical historian.
Life
Ferdinand Jahn was a son of the physician Friedrich Jahn (1766–1813). The pharmacist and pomologist Franz Jahn (1806–1867) was his younger brother.
Ferdinand Jahn studied medicine and after his doctorate in Würzburg in 1825 worked as a doctor at the Georgen Hospital in Meiningen and as a spa doctor in Liebenstein . He later became the personal physician of the Duke of Saxony-Meiningen . Ferdinand Jahn was appointed government medical advisor and appointed to the medical deputation of the ducal government.
Ferdinand Jahn dealt with theoretical questions and medical history topics and is considered to be a representative of a natural history or phylogenetic interpretation of diseases.
From 1830 he published the Medicinisches Conversationsblatt together with Carl Hohnbaum .
On August 3, 1839, he was awarded the academic nickname Gaubius as a member (Matriculation no. 1467) in the Leopoldina added.
Orders and decorations
- Knight of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
- Knight of the Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd class
Fonts
- Premonitions of a general natural history of diseases . Baerecke, Eisenach 1828 ( digitized version )
- The natural healing power in its expressions and effects . Baerecke, Eisenach 1831 ( digitized version )
- On the natural history of Schönlein’s internal rashes or entexanthemums . Baerecke, Eisenach 1840 ( digitized version )
- Sydenham. A contribution to scientific medicine . Baerecke, Eisenach 1840 ( digitized version )
- The abnormal conditions of human life as simulations and repetitions of normal conditions of animal life . Baerecke, Eisenach 1842 ( digitized version )
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd edition, Volume 5, Saur, Munich 2006, p. 296 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Member entry of Ferdinand Jahn in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- CERL Thesaurus : Jahn, Ferdinand
- Jahn, Ferdinand in the German biography
- Works by and about Ferdinand Jahn in the German Digital Library
- Kalliope network : Jahn, Ferdinand (1804–1859)
- SMB-digital: Ferdinand Jahn, Medical Councilor in Meiningen
- Literature by and about Ferdinand Jahn in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 267 digitized
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jahn, Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gaubius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician and medical historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meiningen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1859 |
| Place of death | Meiningen |