Friedrich Simon Morgenstern
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 ).
Web links
- Member entry of Friedrich Simon Morgenstern in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Literature by and about Friedrich Simon Morgenstern in the bibliographic database WorldCat
personal data | |
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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 |