Friedrich Jahn (medic, 1766)
Friedrich Jahn (born February 25, 1766 in Meiningen , † December 19, 1813 ibid) was a German physician and court medicus of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen in Meiningen.
Life
Friedrich Jahn was the son of a pharmacist and from 1784 studied natural sciences and medicine at the University of Jena. In 1787 he received his doctorate in Jena . Friedrich Jahn later worked as a general practitioner and court medicus for the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen in Meiningen and as a doctor and spa doctor in Liebenstein . His scientific focus was on practical medicine, obstetrics and paediatrics.
On September 9, 1789 he was given the academic surname Japis III. under the matriculation no. 890 admitted to the Leopoldina as a member .
Friedrich Jahn fell victim to a typhus epidemic, which was rampant at the time.
The physician and medical historian Ferdinand Jahn (1804-1859) and the pharmacist and pomologist Franz Jahn (1806-1867) were his sons.
Fonts
- Commentatio medico-obstetricia de utero retroverso . Jena 1787 ( digitized version )
- New system of teething troubles developed according to Brownian principles and experience . Langbein and Klüger, Arnstein and Rudolstadt 1803 ( digitized version )
- About the whooping cough. A contribution to the monograph of the same . Langbein and Klüger, Rudolstadt 1805 ( digitized version )
- Clinic of Chronic Diseases. Based on our own experience and observations, and taking into account the most tried and tested writers . Erfurt 1815 ( 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 Friedrich Jahn in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- CERL Thesaurus : Jahn, Friedrich
- Jahn, Friedrich in the German biography
- Kalliope network : Jahn, Friedrich (1766–1813)
- Literature by and about Friedrich Jahn (Mediziner, 1766) 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. 236 digitized
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jahn, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Japis III. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meiningen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1813 |
| Place of death | Meiningen |