Friedrich Kasimir Kitz

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Friedrich Kasimir Kitz (* 1764 in Brilon ; † 1834 ) was a German physician and scientist .

Kitz studied medicine in Göttingen and received his doctorate there in 1787. In 1788 he went on a scientific excursion to Vienna . On this occasion he met the Viennese astronomer Maximilian Hell . After his return to Brilon he was appointed general practitioner on July 22, 1789, from November 6, 1790 he was court medicus to the Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont in Arolsen and then returned to Brilon. On February 1, 1792 he became an honorary member of the Physikalische Privat-Gesellschaft zu Göttingen from 1789.

Kitz was the owner of the Sauvigny house in Brilon , which was built by his father, the master builder Johann Matthias Kitz . He left two daughters.

Works

  • Dissertatio inauguralis physico-medica, sistens electricitatis in medicina usum et abusum . 1787.
  • Rachitic medical history . In Hufeland's complete account of the medicinal powers and uses of the hydrochloric heavy earth. Rottmann, Berlin 1794.
  • Description of a silver ore recently discovered in Westphalia .
  • Observations on an iron wire through which lightning passed .
  • About lightning and its special effects .
  • Over the Riegelsdorfer Flötzgebirge in Churhessen, with prints of fish .
  • Over the habenberg, not far from Warburg, in historical and physical terms .
  • Collectio fossilium rariorum with explanatory notes .

literature

  • City of Brilon (Ed.): 750 years of the city of Brilon . Brilon 1970, p. 221 .
  • Johann Suibert Seibertz: Westphalian contributions to German history . News about the writers of the Duchy of Westphalia. tape 1 . Taschen, Darmstadt 1819, p. 324-328 .
  • Günther Beer: From Alexander von Humboldt for Meteorite sword Tsar Alexander I . A report on a Göttingen association of natural research friends, the "Physical Private Society of Göttingen" from 1789. In: Museum der Göttinger Chemie (Ed.): Museum letter . No. 17 , 1998, ZDB -ID 1383694-8 , p. 1-34 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Suibert Seibertz: Westphalian contributions to German history . News about the writers of the Duchy of Westphalia. tape 1 . Taschen, Darmstadt 1819, p. 324-328 .
  2. ^ Gerhard Brökel: Briloner Heimatbuch . tape I , 1991, ZDB -ID 1106076-1 , p. 38 .
  3. ^ Fridericus Casimirus Kitz: Dissertatio Inauguralis Physico-Medica Sistens Electricitatis In Medicina Usum Et Abusum . Barmeieriano, Goettingae 1787, p. 1–92 ( Göttingen Digitization Center [accessed August 11, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Christoph Wilhelm von Hufeland: Complete presentation of the medical powers and the use of the hydrochloric heavy earth . tape VIII . Rottmann, Berlin 1794, p. 115–121 ( Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf [accessed August 11, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Kitz, Friedrich Kasimir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kitz, Fridericus Casimirus (latinized)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Brilon
DATE OF DEATH 1834