Georg August Spangenberg (physician)

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Georg August Spangenberg (born October 10, 1779 in Bützow ; † July 8, 1837 in Albano Laziale ) was a German doctor and art collector.

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Georg August Spangenberg was the eldest son of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin chancellery and professor of medicine Peter Ludolph Spangenberg and Dorothea Magdalena, née. Sibeth. To study medicine, he went to the Universities of Göttingen and Würzburg . In Würzburg he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He settled as a general practitioner in Braunschweig and was appointed full professor in the senior medical school in 1803. Later he also became a senior physician at the military hospital and gave lectures at the anatomical-surgical institute. In 1808 Spangenberg was appointed to Kassel as the personal physician of the Queen of Westphalia, Katharina von Württemberg . Here too he was head of the military hospital and a doctor at the royal military school.

After the fall of Jérôme Bonaparte , he returned briefly to Braunschweig, from where he moved to Hamburg in 1815. Here he set up an extensive practice as a general practitioner. In addition to the practice, he wrote medical writings.

Spangenberg built up an extensive collection of paintings, mostly by older, especially Dutch masters. When he gave up his medical practice due to illness and moved to the south, this collection passed into the possession of Nicolaus Hudtwalcker . Increased by later acquisitions, it formed one of the cornerstones of the collections of the Hamburger Kunsthalle under the name Hudtwalcker-Wesselhöft'sche Sammlung .

Spangenberg moved to Italy and stayed longer in Rome in 1836/37 , where his house was often visited by artists.

His first marriage to Henriette Wilhelmine, geb. Henneberg married. She came from Braunschweig and was a daughter of Georg Henneberg and Lessing's stepdaughter Amalie, née. King. The son from this marriage was State Economist Wilhelm Spangenberg , repeatedly a member of the Prussian House of Representatives. In his second marriage he was with Luise Marie, geb. Sillem, married. The painters Louis Spangenberg and Gustav Spangenberg († December 17, 1891), both members of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, came from this marriage .

Fonts

  • About the inflammation of the arteries and their exit. In: Horn's archive for medical experience. Vol. V (1804), H. 2, pp. 269-305.
  • New theoretical and practical presentation of blood flows in medical terms. Brunswick 1805.
  • About nerve swelling.
  • About the origin of the shape of the corneal staphyloma. In: New archive. IX (1809).
  • About a typhus epidemic. In: New archive. X (1809).
  • Short message about the condition of the military hospital in Braunschweig v. J. 1809. In: New archive. XII (1810).
  • About the diseases of the heart. In: Archives for Medical Experience. 1811, Vol. 2, pp. 1–61 ( digitized in the Google book search).

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  1. ^ Source: Lexicon of Hamburg writers . Deviating from the month of December, source: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ; different from the year 1777, source: New Nekrolog der Deutschen .
  2. ↑ An anatomical-surgical "Lyceum", as it is stated in the majority of the sources, did not exist in Braunschweig. There was a “Collegium anatomico-chirurgium”, at which midwives and surgeons were trained (source: Gabriele Beisswanger: Das Medizinalwesen im Duchy Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , in: The emergence of the maternity clinic in Germany 1751–1850 , Göttingen, Kassel, Braunschweig, Wallstein , Göttingen 2004, p. 127ff.)
personal data
SURNAME Spangenberg, Georg August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Bützow
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1837
Place of death Albano Laziale