Franz Xaver Mezler

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Franz Xaver Mezler (born December 3, 1756 in Krozingen , † December 8, 1812 in Sigmaringen ) was a German physician .

Life

Mezler showed his first interest in nature as a child. So he started building a herbarium as a child . He first attended the school in Krozingen and was accepted on December 17, 1772 at the Freiburg High School Academicum of the Jesuits . In addition, he received private lessons through his father's mediation. In 1775 he enrolled at the Freiburg University and studied medicine, surgery and obstetrics. During his studies he was in friendly contact with his teacher Matthäus Mederer . In 1779 he passed the medical exams at the beginning of June. On August 24, 1779, he defended the dissertation De Rheumatissimo, which he had written himself, and was awarded Dr. med. PhD . He then went on a trip through Switzerland , France and the Rhineland . On his return he became a doctor in his hometown.

Mezler came to Schramberg as a family doctor for the Counts of Bissingen around 1781 . He stayed there until 1784 when he was appointed doctor of the imperial cities of Gengenbach and Zell am Harmersbach , where he settled in Gengenbach. During this time he traveled regularly to Strasbourg to study the field of childbirth and pathological anatomy . On December 6, 1787, he followed a call to the court of the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as councilor and personal physician . There he served under Prince Anton Aloys . In 1790 and 1791 he was co-editor of the Medicinisch-Chirurgischen Zeitung published in Salzburg , and during this time he also appeared as a medical councilor for the Beuron Abbey .

In 1791, Mezler received the order from the Prince to examine the Imnau springs and recommended that a health resort be built there. The prince complied with his plan and in 1794 Mezler was entrusted with the medical management of the spa as a well doctor . On April 1, 1807, the educational institution for middle-class girls was opened in Habsthal under his direction . During this time he also tried to train the teachers for this institution. Also in 1807 he was appointed a secret medical councilor and took over the management of medical services in the principality.

Mezler was friends with the Regensburg doctor Jacob Christian Gottlieb von Schäffer and was in lively exchange with him.

Memberships

Mezler was a corresponding member of the Society of Doctors in Paris and from 1791 a real member of the Imperial and Royal Josephine Medical-Surgical Academy as well as an honorary member of the Corresponding Society of Swiss Doctors and Surgeons in Zurich . In addition, on October 1, 1801, he was a founding member of the Patriotic Society of Doctors and Naturalists in Swabia . He was elected the Society's first president that day and was confirmed in office for another two years in 1803.

At the beginning of the 19th century he was also appointed a member of the Mineralogical Society in Jena and the Natural Research Society in Zurich . On May 20, 1809, he was made a member of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin and, in 1809, an honorary member of the Physical-Medical Society in Erlangen .

Around 1810 Mezler founded a reading society in Sigmaringen.

Works (selection)

  • Draft for medical studies, Rieger, Augsburg 1785.
  • Concerns about the current situation of the healing arts , Rieger, Augsburg 1785.
  • From dropsy: Along with an appendix about the infection , Ulm 1787 (award-winning publication).
  • Attempt a history of bloodletting , Wohler, Ulm 1793.
  • On the influence of healing on practical theology , 2 volumes, Wohler, Ulm 1794.
  • Preliminary news about the spa town of Imnau , Wohler, Ulm 1797.
  • Remarks on the cattle plague , Stettin, Ulm 1798.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The deviating information on the place of death in the ADB is incorrect. Mezler was in Sigmaringen until his death and was buried there (see also Franz Joseph von Mezler, Prague 1855. The grave inscription is also preserved there).
personal data
SURNAME Mezler, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Krozingen
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1812
Place of death Sigmaringen