Georg August Langguth

Georg August Langguth

Georg August Langguth (born June 7, 1711 in Leipzig , † March 11, 1782 in Wittenberg ) was a German medic.

Life

Born as the son of the Leipzig merchant and Saxon commissioner Rudolph Ludwig Langghut and his wife Johanna Katharina, the daughter of the doctor August Quirinus Rivinus , he attended school in Eilenburg at an early age . In 1726 he was sent to the electoral state high school in Schulpforta , where he acquired the knowledge to begin a university course. He moved to his hometown, where he entered the register of the University of Leipzig on September 26, 1730 , after about 2 years in the winter semester of 1732 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree there .

He then went to Berlin , where he inspected the medical institutions and heard lectures in 1735. In 1738 he returned to Leipzig, did his doctorate in medicine, gave lectures at the Leipzig University and worked as a general practitioner. In 1742, when Johann Friedrich Crell left at the University of Helmstedt, he took over the substitute from Heinrich Heuchner at the University of Wittenberg , which he managed until 1746. After Heuchner's death, he took over the third professorship in the art of dissection and herbal science (also surgery and pharmaceutical science).

He expanded his lectures on venereal diseases and attempts were made in 1768 to win him over to lectures on veterinary medicine. When he became the second professor at the medical school, the main burden of the lectures lay on him. He declined an offer at the University of Petersburg despite complaints about insufficient pay. In addition, he managed the rectorate of the Wittenberg University in the winter semester of 1749, 1753, 1760, 1765, 1771 and 1777 .

Selection of works

In addition to many disputations of academic content, he includes:

• Disp. Inaug. Med qua communis fensorii hiostoris sistitur. Pro gradu doct. Leipzig 1738
• Progr. De Luce ex pressione oculi, munerä Professoris Medicininae Ordinarii praemissum, Wittenberg 1742
• Progr. De persiosteo propter offis amputationem sollicite circumcidendo. Ad praec. Disp. 1745

literature

• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917,
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Verlag Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig 1808, vol. 8, p. 65 ( online )
• Friedrich August Weiz: The learned Saxony or directory of those writers now living in the electoral Saxon and incorporated countries and their writings. Carl Friedrich Schneider Verlag, Leipzig :, 1780, p. 149 f. ( Online )
• Matriculation of the University of Wittenberg
• Neues Wittenberger Wochenblatt 1794, p. 377, 393, 404 and 1793 p. 377
• Friedrich Börner : News of the noblest living conditions and writings, famous doctors and naturalists living now in and around Germany. Wolfenbüttel, 1749 ( online )