Friedrich von Wendt

Friedrich von Wendt (born September 28, 1738 in Sorau , † May 2, 1818 in Erlangen ) was a German medic and President of the Leopoldina .

Life

At the age of 20, Wendt enrolled at the University of Halle (Saale) in medicine. He later moved to Göttingen , where he successfully completed his studies with his dissertation in 1762.

Then he settled as a general practitioner in Genthin near Magdeburg . After a few years, Wendt became the city physician of Pless (Upper Silesia). From here the Prince of Anhalt hired him as a personal physician .

In 1778 he accepted a position at the University of Erlangen and worked there as a professor of pharmacology . There he was very committed to modern medical care. In his private apartment in Erlangen, Wendt founded a “Collegium clinicum” in which his students were allowed to examine and treat sick people under his supervision.

Around 1780, with the support of the university, this college was converted into an “Institutum Clinicum”, which Wendt directed until the end of his life.

From 1791 Wendt was a member of the Leopoldina (German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina) with the company name (in the tradition of learned societies as agnomen , later called cognomen ) Diocles Carystius IV and in October 1810 he was appointed adjunct of the academy. When their ninth president, the botanist Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber , died shortly afterwards, Wendt was elected as his successor in 1811, who held this office until his death. Through this election he also received the title of nobility, based on the imperial privilege of the Academy granted by Leopold I in 1687.

In 1813 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . On May 27, 1814, Friedrich Wendt was elevated to the personal knighthood as the Royal Bavarian Privy Councilor by being awarded the civil order of merit of the Bavarian crown; on August 15, 1814, she was enrolled in the knight class in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

family

Friedrich von Wendt married on June 26, 1777 Auguste Friederike zu Isenburg and Büdingen (1743–1783), widow of Ludwig Casimir zu Isenburg and Büdingen (1710–1775) and daughter of Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode . They had two children. The daughter Christiane Maria and the lawyer Christian Ernst von Wendt (1778–1842). After the loss of his first wife, he married the lady-in-waiting Baronette Antoinette Eleonore von Metzsch in 1792 .

Works

Historia tracheotomiae nuperrime administratae (1774)
News of the establishment of the Instituti clinici in Erlangen (1780–1785)
Observationes de pleuritide et peripneumonia (1762)
Annals of the clinical institute in Erlangen (1808)

literature

Genealogical handbook of nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN 0435-2408
Julius Pagel : Wendt, Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 719.
Johann Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Frommann, Jena 1860 ( google.de/books ), pp. 149–150.
Oscar Grulich : History of the library and natural history collection of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists . Halle 1894, pp. 112–113.
Astrid Ley (edit.): The professors and lecturers at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743–1960 . Edited by Renate Wittern. Part 2: Medical Faculty (Erlanger research. Special series; Vol. 9). Erlangen 1999, pp. 214-215.
Erlanger City Lexicon . Nuremberg 2002, p. 743.

Individual evidence

^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur: History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Jena 1860, p. 238 .
↑ Index Adjunctorum: Matriculae Dominorum Collegarum Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldina Naturae-Curiosorum. Tomus Primus . 1652 (1652 ff .; Leopoldina Archive Tom I; o. Pag.).
^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur: History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Jena 1860, p. 150 (The erroneous date of death May 7, 1808 in ADB is obviously a printing error; the correct date May 2, 1818 is proven by the well-documented subsequent presidential election of the Leopoldina from May 1818 and the supplemented literature).
↑ The Imperial Privilege of the Leopoldina of August 7, 1687. Edited at the 1987 annual meeting by the Academy's Presidium. Translated into German by Siegried Kratzsch, Halle, and introduced by Georg Uschmann, Jena. With a facsimile of the original and 4 illustrations . Acta Historica Leopoldina No. 17, Leipzig 1987.
↑ Astrid Ley (arr.): The professors and lecturers at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743–1960 . Ed .: Renate Wittern (= Erlanger research. Special series . Volume 9 ). Part 2: Faculty of Medicine. Erlangen 1999, p. 214 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wendt, Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sorau
DATE OF DEATH	May 2, 1818
Place of death	gain

[1] Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur: History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Jena 1860, p. 238 .

[2] Index Adjunctorum: Matriculae Dominorum Collegarum Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldina Naturae-Curiosorum. Tomus Primus . 1652 (1652 ff .; Leopoldina Archive Tom I; o. Pag.).

[3] Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur: History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Jena 1860, p. 150 (The erroneous date of death May 7, 1808 in ADB is obviously a printing error; the correct date May 2, 1818 is proven by the well-documented subsequent presidential election of the Leopoldina from May 1818 and the supplemented literature).

[4] The Imperial Privilege of the Leopoldina of August 7, 1687. Edited at the 1987 annual meeting by the Academy's Presidium. Translated into German by Siegried Kratzsch, Halle, and introduced by Georg Uschmann, Jena. With a facsimile of the original and 4 illustrations . Acta Historica Leopoldina No. 17, Leipzig 1987.

[5] Astrid Ley (arr.): The professors and lecturers at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743–1960 . Ed .: Renate Wittern (= Erlanger research. Special series . Volume 9 ). Part 2: Faculty of Medicine. Erlangen 1999, p. 214 .