Friedrich Simon Morgenstern

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Friedrich Simon Morgenstern (born January 31, 1727 in Halle (Saale) ; † August 21, 1782 in Magdeburg ) was a German physician and naturalist.

Life

Friedrich Simon Morgenstern studied medicine at the University of Halle and received his doctorate under Johann Juncker in 1750 . Morgenstern then worked first as a doctor in Zerbst until 1754 and then as a doctor and later as a city ​​physician and assessor of the medical college in Magdeburg as well as a midwifery teacher in the Duchy of Magdeburg and in the county of Mannsfeld.

Morgenstern was a member of the Electoral Mayntzischen Academie of Useful Sciences and was on January 24, 1756 with the academic surname Christogenes III. admitted to the Leopoldina as a member ( matriculation no. 607 ) .

He had been married to Johanna Katharina Morgenstern , born in 1767, who was 21 years his junior . Brömme, the author of a text later known as the “Magdeburg Cookbook”, “Lessons for a young woman who wants to do the kitchen and housekeeping herself, given from her own experience by a housemother”. The philologist and librarian Karl Morgenstern and the businessman and member of parliament August Morgenstern were the couple's sons.

Fonts

  • Dissertatio Inavgvralis Chemico-Medica De Antimonii Crvdi Vsv Interno . Grunert, Halae 1750 ( digitized version )
  • with Samuel AD Tissot : Tissots der Arzneygelahrheit Doctors at the Faculty of Montpellier, practical defense of the grafting of smallpox, together with an experiment on changing the voice . Kümmeln, Hall 1756 ( digitized version )
  • Descriptio cancri marini vulgo Eremitae . In: Nova acta physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosum, I, 1757, pp. 375–379 ( digitized version )
  • Friedrich Simon Morgenstern's lessons in midwifery along with brief dietary and medical-practical instructions for pregnant women, giving birth, women who have recently given birth and newborn children . Creutz, Magdeburg 1779 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 223 ( archive.org )
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Morgenstern (Friedr. Simon) . In: Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöchers general scholar lexico. Fourth volume (Lu – Mo), Georg Jöntzen, Bremen 1813, p. 2117 ( digitized version )
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 161 ( archive.org ).

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personal data
SURNAME Morgenstern, Friedrich Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christogenes III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1782
Place of death Magdeburg