Friedrich August Weiz

Friedrich August Weiz (born September 19, 1739 in Hamburg , † December 19, 1815 in Eckartsberga ) was a German doctor and chronicler.

Life

The son of the first garrison and land surgeon Friedrich August Weiz studied in Copenhagen and Halle (Saale) . In Halle he received his doctorate in medicine in 1761 . He stayed for a while in Strasbourg , Paris , Edinburgh , Berlin , etc. He then became a general practitioner in Naumburg and a physician for the offices of Tautenburg , Eckartsberga and the city of Freyburg (Unstrut) . In addition to his extensive medical writings, his chronic work “The learned Saxony” had established itself over the centuries.

Works

• Diss. Inaug de caussis luxationum interis. Hall 1761.
• For use and pleasure. 1767, 3rd volume (a weekly publication).
• Complete excerpts from the best surgical disputes of all academies, along with news of new surgical books. Bautzen 1769–1774, 6th vol., New edition.
• The Chursächsische Land-Physikus. Leipzig 1772–1774, 3rd year. (a monthly magazine).
• New excerpts from doctoral theses for surgeons. Leipzig 1774–79, 9th vol.
• Mixed contributions to the legal knowledge of physicians and legal scholars. Leipzig 1776.
• Mister Albrechts von Haller's exquisite surgical diplomas brought in an extract and annotated. Leipzig 1777–1787, 5th vol.
• The learned Saxony, or directory of those in the Churf. Saxon. Incorporated countries of now living writers and their writings. Leipzig 1780 ( online ).
• Wilhelm Fabrix, from Hilden, surgical observations and cures; from Latin, with comments and additions from recent surgery and personal experience. 1. u. 2nd hundred: Flensburg and Leipzig 1780, 3rd u. 4th hundred: Flensburg and Leipzig 1782.
• The betrayals of wet nurses, a non-profit publication (by Starck) communicated to the public in German. Leipzig 1782.
• Anatomical-surgical catechism for apprentices in the Wundarzney art. 5th volume, Leipzig 1783–1785, 2nd edition, Leipzig 1789–1791, 3rd edition, Leipzig 1800.
  • 1st vol., Containing ofteology and myotogy.
  • Volume 2, containing the Splanehnologie and the doctrine of the arteries.
  • Volume 3, Ribbon containing the doctrine of the veins, nerves, lymphatic vessels and glands.
  • 4th and 5th vol., Containing surgery.
• New reading for German surgeons from dissertations and advertisements of new books. 2nd volume, Leipzig 1785–1786.
• Joh. Jak. Wepfer's medical practical observations of internal and external diseases of the head. From the Latin; enriched and published with the latest experiences. Leipzig 1786 also under the title: Library of the most important doctors of the 17th century.
• JM Lancisi Treatise on Sudden and Strange Deaths and Their Causes. From the Latin; with new remarks. Leipzig 1785.
• Of the children's cradle cap and a specific remedy against it, one of the award papers of Professor Strack, crowned by the Academy in Paris. From the Latin, with a few notes and an appendix. Weimar 1788.
• Paperback. for German surgeons, to the year 1789. Altenburg 1789.
• Pocket book for German surgeons to the year 1790, together with a main register of the previous years. Altenburg 1790.

literature

• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Verlag Mayer, Lemgo, 1800, 8th volume, p. 430 ( online ); Vol. 21, p. 457 ( online ).
• August Hirsch : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg publishing house, Vienna and Leipzig, 1888, 6th volume, p. 230.
• Hans Schröder: Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Hamburg 1883, vol. 7, p. 600 ( online ).