Friedrich Joseph Wilhelm Schröder

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Friedrich Joseph Wilhelm Schröder, painting by Benjamin Calau , 1770, Gleimhaus Halberstadt

Friedrich Joseph Wilhelm Schröder (born March 19, 1733 in Bielefeld , † October 27, 1778 in Marburg ) was a German physician and professor of medicine, a Freemason and a member of the Order of the Gold and Rosicrucians .

Medical career

Friedrich Joseph Wilhelm Schröder was the son of the Bielefeld mayor and district judge Georg Wilhelm Schröder, who had married a daughter of the count's mountain councilor Jakob Bierbrauer in Wernigerode in 1730. Since his father died early, his mother married the personal physician and councilor Johann Christoph Unzer († 1771), father of the later poet Ludwig August Unzer .

Schröder attended the Lyceum in Wernigerode until 1750 , graduated from the University of Erlangen with a degree in medicine in 1754 and then helped his stepfather Unzer in his practice. In 1755 Schröder went to Kassel and in 1756 he became a fountain medicus in Hofgeismar and a physicus in the Diemeldistrikt. In February 1762 he was absent from Erlangen as Dr. med. PhD. From 1764 he was the second full professor of medicine at the University of Marburg . He was mainly a pathologist and internal medicine specialist. He is considered to be one of the last adherents of alchemy in the academic environment. In 1767, 1769 and 1772 he served as dean of the medical faculty.

When his son Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Fürchtegott was baptized on January 21, 1763 in the Sylvestri Church in Wernigerode, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , Christian Fürchtegott Gellert and Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim were the godparents.

Freemasons and Rosicrucians

Schröder was initially a member of the Marburg Masonic Lodge Zu den drey Löwen . In 1766 he founded a circle of Gold and Rosicrucians from among the bearers of the knightly degrees of the Strict Observance and developed a broad propaganda activity, which he achieved a considerable effect. In 1767 Schröder founded a new Masonic lodge Zu den drey Rosen in Marburg and became its master of the chair , but this only lasted for a short time.

Baron Adolph Knigge , later an opponent of the Gold and Rosicrucians, visited Schröder on August 21, 1778 in Marburg and wrote: “I have just come from Schröder, the wonderful Schröder - very delighted, but I cannot write.” He names him a "wonderful" and "divine man" and explains: "I have never seen a person whose eyes look so much soul, and a look that goes far over the earth."

Works

Web links

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  • Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis , arr. v. Franz Gundlach. Marburg: Elwert 1927 p. 190f.
  • Stefan Redies: Friedrich Joseph Wilhelm Schröder (1733-1778). A Rosicrucian at the University of Marburg . Marburg: Görich & Weiershäuser 1997.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Göttert : Knigge or: From the illusions of decent life. dtv 1995. p. 40.
  2. ↑ Klopstockstrasse Letters 1759 -1766. Volume 2: Apparatus / Commentary. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2004, p. 616.
  3. ^ Adolph Freiherr Knigge: Selected letters. Etiquette life. Hanover: Torchbearers 1996 (Selected Works Vol. 10), p. 195.
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Friedrich Joseph Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1778
Place of death Marburg