Friedrich Wilhelm von Hoven

Portrait in biography of Doctor Friedrich Wilhelm von Hoven 1840

Friedrich Wilhelm von Hoven (actually Wilhelm Friderich David Daniel von Hoven ; born March 11, 1759 in Stuttgart ; † February 6, 1838 in Nördlingen ) was a German doctor , medical advisor , university professor , neighbor's child and close lifelong friend of Friedrich Schiller .

Life

Hoven was born the son of a Württemberg officer. From 1766 he attended the Latin school in Ludwigsburg . On June 17, 1771, he became an apprentice at the Charles School on the Solitude near Gerlingen (Württemberg), known since February 11, 1771 as the "Military Nursery" . It was founded by Duke Karl II. Eugene on February 5, 1770 as a gardening school or stucco and gardening school for boys, and on December 14, 1770, it was converted into a "military orphanage". On March 11, 1773, the Karlsschule was renamed the "Ducal Military Academy" and on November 18, 1775 it was relocated to Stuttgart. From 1776 onwards, Hoven had been studying medicine at the then newly founded medical faculty, like Friedrich Schiller, who had previously also been a student of Karlsruhe on January 17, 1773, initially as a law student like von Hoven.

Friedrich von Hoven describes the childhood friendship between him and Schiller in his memoirs (1840) as follows:

“We were of the same age, both officer's sons, both wanted to study theology, in fact we lived in the same house at the end, in what was then the Cottas printing press in Ludwigsburg. Since our fathers were concerned that we should become something right in the world, we were strictly encouraged to study, and in order not to miss any time, we were allowed little contact with our comrades apart from school. We therefore attached ourselves all the more firmly to one another, played with each other in our idle hours and exercised all mischief , such as E.g. the typesetter in the printing works, whom we played a new trick every day. So we lived together in the most intimate relationship until I was accepted into the military nursery on the Solitude. "

- Friedrich Wilhelm von Hoven

On February 28, 1780, von Hoven received his doctorate in medicine. Since his and Schiller's discharge from the Karlsschule in Stuttgart on Dec. 15, 1780, he was Medicinae Practicus and regimental doctor at the military orphanage in Ludwigsburg, second city and official physician (doctor) in Ludwigsburg in 1785, in addition to being a ducal Württemberg court medic in Ludwigsburg January 28, 1786, first city and official physician in Ludwigsburg May 2, 1793 to 1803.

In 1803 he received a call as a full professor of medicine (medicine professor ) at the University of Würzburg , where he was also a lecturer for the "history of medicine". Von Hoven was (at the time of secularization) the first Protestant doctor at the Juliusspital hospital. In 1805 he became (Kurpfälzisch-Bavarian) medical advisor and first doctor at the Julius Hospital . Also significant in Würzburg was Hoven's apartment neighborhood with Friedrich ("Fritz") Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling , who was professor of philosophy at the University of Würzburg from 1803 to spring 1806, and Schelling's rationalist opponent Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus , who worked from 1803 to 1807 professor of theology at the same university. The “women's war” between the wives Caroline Schelling (née Michaelis, widowed Böhmer, divorced Schlegel, married Schelling; 1763–1809) and Caroline Paulus, née. Paulus (1767–1844), heightened the tensions between Professors Schelling and Paulus based on scientific differences.

In 1806 Hoven became a medical advisor in Ansbach . He later became the royal Bavarian senior medical officer, hospital founder and director of all hospitals in Nuremberg . In 1836 he moved to live with his daughter in Nördlingen and in 1837 he retired. Schiller's correspondence with von Hoven is reproduced in his autobiography.

Fonts (selection)

• Experiment on the importance of obscure ideas in the theory of sensations. Mäntler, Stuttgart 1780 ( digitized version ).
• Experiment with intermittent fever and its cure, especially with cinchona bark . 2 parts. Heinrich Steiner and company, Winterthur 1789/90 ( digital copies ).
• History of an epidemic fever which ruled the town of Asperg in the Wirtemberg region in 1792 and 1793 ; along with remarks about the nature of this fever. Joh. Christ. Godfr. Göpferdt, Jena 1795 ( digitized version ).
• Defense of the excitation theory against a few principal objections. Cotta, Ludwigsburg 1802.
• The merits of Brownian practice over non-Brownian. Cotta, Ludwigsburg 1803.
• Handbook of Practical Medicine. 2 volumes. Claß, Heilbronn 1805.
• Principles of medicine. Ferdinand Claßen, Rothenburg ob der Tauber 1807 ( digitized version ).
• Attempt a practical fever theory. Johann Leonhard Schrag, Nuremberg 1810 ( digitized ).
• Experiment about the nervous diseases. Johann Leonhard Schrag, Nuremberg 1813 ( digitized version ).
• Ideas about moral culture and upbringing. Riegel and Wießner, Nuremberg 1822 ( digitized version ).
• Ideas about the moral reform of criminals. Monath & Kussler, Nuremberg 1822.
• Wahrhold, Ernst Friedrich: Rhapsodies from the papers left behind by a general practitioner. Edited by Dr. Ernst Friedrich Wahrhold, his nephew. Campe, Nuremberg 1829 ( digitized version ).
• Hildebold von Schwangau: Romantic painting from the Middle Ages. Lentner, Munich 1835 ( digitized version ).
• Jumping Jack's bath and travel adventure: Local posse in 2 sections. Döring, Frankfurt am Main 1839 ( digitized ).
• Autobiography: Biography of Doctor Friedrich Wilhelm von Hoven, […] written by himself and completed a few days before his death, edited by one of his friends and admirers [Dr. Merkel]. With a title copper and an appendix of 18 letters by Friedrich Schiller. Johann Leonhard Schrag, Nuremberg 1840 ( digitized ; full text ); New edition: Memoirs. Text revision and comments by Hans-Günther Thalheim and Evelyn Laufer. Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1984.

literature

• Henning Bärmig: The personal bibliographies of the professors who taught at the Medical Faculty of the Alma Mater Julia zu Würzburg from 1582 to 1803 with biographical information. Medical dissertation, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1969, p. 76 f .: "Friedrich Wilhelm von Hoven",
• Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Medicinisches Writerlexicon. Volume 9, Copenhagen 1832, pp. 185-187 ( digitized version ).
• Werner E. Gerabek : Hoven, Friedrich Wilhelm von. In the S. ua (Hrsg.): Encyclopedia Medical History. De Gruyter, Berlin 2005, p. 631 ( online ).
• Jürgen Gessner [Geßner]: The contribution of the doctor Wilhelm von Hoven (1760-1838) to the health system in Nuremberg . (= Genealogy and regional history , vol. 27). Neustadt / Aisch 1976. Before that, Med. Diss. Erlangen, Nuremberg 1975.
• Sabine Häusner, (née Eyinck): The doctor and medical advisor Friedrich Wilhelm von Hoven (1759–1838): His life, his works and his friendship with Friedrich Schiller (= Würzburg medical historical research. Vol. 81). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003. Also Med. Diss. Würzburg from July 4, 2003.
• August Hirsch :  Hoven, Friedrich Wilhelm von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 215 f.
• Christiane Noll: Bioergography of the doctor Friedrich Wilhelm von Hoven (1759-1838). Med. Dissertation Münster 2013 ( PDF ).
• Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Ed.): Universal encyclopedia of the present and the past . 4th edition. Volume 8. Altenburg [in Thuringia] 1859, p. 561: Hoven, Friedrich Wilhelm von . - [Digitized:] * Hoven . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 8 . Altenburg 1859, p. 561 ( zeno.org ). .
• Wolfgang Riedel / Red [action]: Hoven, Friedrich Wilhelm von . In: Killy Literature Lexicon . Vol. 5, de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, p. 601, col. 2, to p. 602, col. 1 ( online ).
• Reinhard Breymayer: Astronomy, calendar dispute and love theology. From Erhard Weigel [...] to Friedrich Christoph Oetinger and Philipp Matthäus Hahn to Friedrich Schiller, Johann Andreas Streicher, Franz Joseph Graf von Thun and Hohenstein, Mozart and Beethoven. [...] [Motto:] Brothers - a dear father must live above the stars. SCHILLER. Heck, Dußlingen: 2016, pp. 170–186, detailed information on Hoven's life story. - ISBN 978-3-924249-58-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Main State Archives Stuttgart, inventory A 272.
2. ^ Gert Egle: Childhood and early youth of Friedrich Schiller (1767–73): Familienleben in Ludwigsburg , website teachSam, accessed on July 29, 2013.
3. ↑ Robert Herrlinger : The development of medical history teaching at the Julius Maximilians University. In: Messages from the Georg Sticker Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Würzburg. No. 1, (March) 1957, pp. 1-8; here: p. 2 f.
4. ↑ Henning Bärmig, p. 76
5. ↑ Henning Bärmig, p. 76

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Wilhelm von Hoven  - Sources and full texts

• Letters from Friedrich Schiller to Friedrich von Hoven in the Friedrich Schiller Archive