Friedrich Reinhold Dietz

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Friedrich Reinhold Dietz (born January 12, 1805 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † June 5, 1836 ibid) was a German philologist and doctor . He knew the history of ancient medicine like hardly anyone else .

Life

Dietz attended the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg, run by Friedrich August Gotthold in the Humboldtian sense, and received his preparatory training in ancient philosophy here. From Michaelmas 1823 he studied medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1826 he received his doctorate as Dr. med. The (Greco-Latin) work, published in Leipzig in 1827, was the annotated new edition of the text “About holy disease” ( epilepsy ) from the Corpus Hippocraticum .

The Prussian Crown allowed Dietz a scientific journey through France, Italy, England and Spain, so that he in the great libraries contained manuscripts could see and compare the Greek and Arab physicians. After his return home he was appointed associate professor and secondary doctor at the Königsberg hospital in 1833 . After becoming full professor and director there in 1836 , he died at the age of only 31.

Alexander von Humboldt valued Dietz's work and asked his widow to process the estate.

Works

August Hirsch wrote in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie :

“Dietz's writings edited from his Collectaneen are among the most important achievements in medical history . In 1830 he published in “Analecta med. ex libris mss. primum edita. Fasc. I. ”an excerpt from the Materia medica of Ibn Beithar with comments on Dioscorides and communications about several medical Sanskrit writings in English libraries , also“ Galeni de dissectione musculorum et de consuetudine libri ”, 1832, Greek edition of the writings mentioned, of which the the latter (πεϱὶ ἐϑῶν) is published here for the first time in the original text, with a display of the results, which the author reached on his five-year journey regarding the criticism of the text in the Hippocratic collection, then " Apollonii Citiensis , Stephani, Palladii, Theophili ... et aliorum scholia in Hippocratem et Galenum “, 2 Tom. 1834, a very valuable collection, edited with the most thorough criticism and care (first edition in the original text), finally “Sorani Ephesii de arte obstetricia morbisque mulierum quae supersunt”, 1838, first edition of this classic writing, with a foreword after the author's death and additions, edited by Florian Lobeck . - Of his very extensive collections, which early death prevented the author from utilizing, a part is said to be in the Royal Library in Königsberg ”.

The whereabouts or loss has not yet been documented.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Reinhold Dietz: Curriculum Vitae , 1823
  2. ↑ George Friedrich Hartung : Academic memory book for those who moved into Königsberg University in the years 1817 to 1844: Published on the occasion of the third secular celebration of the university, Hartungsche Hof- und Universitäts-Buchdruckerei, Königsberg 1844, p. 31 No. 9
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Ἱπποϰϱάτους πεϱὶ ἱϱῆς νούσου βίβλιον
  4. ↑ Ina Lelke: A study on the correspondence of Alexander von Humboldt with the wives of famous scholars
  5. ↑ Fridericus Reinholdus Dietz: Apollonii Citiensis, Stephani, Palladii, Theophili, Meletii, Damascii, Ioannis, aliorum Scholia in Hippocratem et Galenum [...] edidit. 2 volumes, Königsberg 1834; Reprint Amsterdam 1966.
personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Friedrich Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1836
Place of death Koenigsberg i. Pr.