Franz Joseph Schelver

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Franz Joseph Schelver (born July 23 or July 24, 1778 in Osnabrück , † November 30, 1832 in Heidelberg ) was a German physician , botanist , mesmerist and natural philosopher .

Schelver grew up in Osnabrück as the son of a lawyer and studied medicine in Jena from 1796 . His teachers in medicine included Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland , Justus Christian Loder and August Johann Batsch and he studied philosophy with Johann Gottlieb Fichte . From 1797 he continued his studies in Göttingen (with Johann Friedrich Blumenbach , August Gottlieb Richter and Johann Friedrich Gmelin ) and received his doctorate there the following year. Then he was a resident doctor in Osnabrück. In 1801 he became a private lecturer in Halle and from 1803 an associate professor at the Medical Faculty in Jena, where he was friends with Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . He also held lectures on botany as a successor to Batsch and was director of the Botanical Garden . In 1806 he became full professor of medicine in Heidelberg , where he also served as dean of his faculty from 1812 to 1819 and from 1811 headed the local botanical garden .

Schelver was a representative of romantic natural philosophy and was influenced by Jakob Böhme and Schelling, whose natural philosophical ideas he transferred to medicine, as well as to Goethe's botany . He held lectures on animal magnetism according to Franz Anton Mesmer and practiced the magnetic cures he developed as a form of therapy. Because of his speculative access to natural research and medicine, Schelver became increasingly isolated at the Heidelberg faculty in the 1820s and was the subject of criticism, including in the management of the Botanical Garden.

He has published on natural philosophy, animal magnetism, medicine, botany, and entomology .

He was a member of the Göttingen Physical Private Society and was elected a member of the Leopoldina in 1816 . In 1821 he became a councilor.

Franz Joseph Schelver was married. His youngest daughter Viktoria (* 1820) married the historian and national liberal politician Georg Gottfried Gervinus in 1836 .

Fonts

Critique of the doctrine of the sexes of the plant (1812)
  • Attempt of a natural history of the sensory tools in insects and worms, Johann Christian Dieterich, Göttingen 1798 Google Books
  • Elementary theory of organic nature, first part Organomie, Johann Christian Dieterich, Göttingen 1800 Google Books
  • Studies on the human and cow leaves, 1802
  • Philosophy of Medicin, Frankfurt am Main 1809 Google Books
  • Critique of the doctrine of the sexes of the plant, G. Braun, Heidelberg 1812 Google Books
  • First continuation of his criticism of the doctrine of the sexes of the plant, G. Braun, Carlsruhe and Heidelberg 1814 Google Books
  • From the secrets of life, Frankfurt am Main 1815 Google Books
  • with August Henschel : On the sexuality of plants, studies by Dr. August Henschel. In addition to a historical appendix by Dr. FJ Schelver, Breslau 1820 Google Books
  • Life and form history of the plant world, Joseph Engelmann, Heidelberg 1822 Google Books
  • Second continuation of his criticism of the doctrine of the sexes of the plant, G. Braun, Carlsruhe 1823 Google Books
  • System of general therapy in the principles of magnetic healing, part 1, 1831

In 1802/03 he published the journal for organic physics. Google Books

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner E. Gerabek: Schelver, Franz Joseph. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1294.
  2. ↑ Werner E. Gerabek: Schelver, Franz Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, 2005, p. 661 f .; here: p. 661.
  3. ↑ Dissertatio Inauguralis Physiologica De Irritabilitate ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de
  4. ^ Title page attempt at a natural history of sensory tools ... , 1798 (see writings), the society existed from 1789-1804 Google Books
  5. ^ Member entry by Franz Joseph Schelver at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 22, 2016.
  6. ^ University of Heidelberg Gervinus-Franz Schelver
personal data
SURNAME Schelver, Franz Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1832
Place of death Heidelberg