Friedrich Leopold Weyland

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Friedrich Leopold Weyland (born August 29, 1750 in Buchsweiler , Alsace , France ; † December 2, 1785 ibid) was a German doctor and student friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Strasbourg .

Life

He was the son of Georg Leopold Weyland (1715–1766) from Seckbach near Frankfurt am Main and Maria Salome Schulmeister (1725–1779) from Buchsweiler. His brother is Philipp Christian Weyland, who later became President of the Weimar Region .

On October 3, 1781, Weyland married in Kutzenhausen (Alsace) Louisa Sibylla Magdalena Aulber (* July 27, 1758, † April 17, 1837 in Mannheim ), educator of the King of Bavaria. The couple had a daughter Louise Caroline Jakobine Weyland (born August 29, 1782), married Couder, who died in Moscow .

Weyland completed his medical studies in Strasbourg in 1771 with his dissertation on Specimen inaugurale medicum de ozaena maxillari cum ulcere fistuloso ad angulum oculi internum complicata… . He then worked as a doctor in Frankfurt , and finally as gräflich Hanau light Bergischer or landgräflich Hessen-intestine Urban Councilor .

Weyland, whom his college friend Goethe calls an "important childhood friend" in his memoirs, aroused Goethe's interest in medicine. During a joint ride to Sessenheim , 40 kilometers away , on October 13, 1770, Weyland introduced the young Goethe to the local pastor family Brion and the 18-year-old daughter Friederike Brion , with whom Goethe spontaneously fell in love. Weyland was related to the pastor family Brion and is said to have fallen out with Goethe later because of his love affair with Friederike. Goethe et al. Reports on his travels through Alsace and his experiences with Weyland. a. in his autobiography From My Life. Poetry and truth .

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  1. ↑ Genealogical data  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.robert-weinland.org  
  2. ↑ Karl Theodor Musculus: Index of contents and names of all Goethe's works according to the last edition and the estate , page 202, Verlag JG Cotta, 1835 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Goethe in Strasbourg ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) The young Goethe  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-stuttgart.de
  4. ↑ Hanna Fischer-Lamberg, Renate Grumach: The young Goethe. April 1770 - September 1772 . W. de Gruyter, 1974, page 285 ( GoogleBooks excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Weyland, Friedrich Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and friend of Goethe's youth
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchsweiler , Alsace, France
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1785
Place of death Buchsweiler , Alsace, France