Georg Christoph Feuerlein

Georg Christoph Feuerlein

Georg Christoph Feuerlein (born December 29, 1694 in Nuremberg , † May 25, 1756 in Ansbach ) was a German doctor, naturalist and writer.

Life

Family origin

Georg Christoph Feuerlein came from the old Frankish bourgeoisie Feuerlein . He was a grandson of the important Lutheran theologian, poet and composer of sacred songs Konrad Feuerlein . Georg Christoph Feuerlein's father was the theologian Johann Konrad Feuerlein (1656–1718). Georg Christoph Feuerleins brother was the Göttingen theology professor Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein (1689–1766).

education

Feuerlein first studied philosophy and theology at the University of Altdorf , where he obtained his master's degree from Christian Gottlieb Schwarz in 1717 . In the same year he completed his habilitation in Altdorf. After that he changed the subject and studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Halle . He received his doctorate in medicine under Friedrich Hoffmann in 1722 .

Career history

Georg Christoph Feuerlein began his professional career as a physicist for the Principality of Ansbach in Feuchtwangen . From 1722 he practiced as a doctor in the imperial city of Nördlingen . On April 24, 1724, he married Ottilie Grießmeyer, born on May 8, 1700 in Hennebach in Ansbach. The marriage resulted in four sons and three daughters. In 1730, on behalf of Professor Ludwig Hocker, the rector of the Heilsbronn Princely School, Feuerlein examined the quality of the well water in Heilsbronn Monastery and came to the conclusion that it was excellent drinking water. After the Neustadt doctor Hasenast had certified the well water of the Heilsbronn monastery also had healing properties against paralysis, gout, abdominal ailments, body aches and open wounds in a publication published in Ansbach, Georg Christoph Feuerlein went to Heilsbronn as a bath doctor in the service of the Margrave of Ansbach in 1732 appointed and in turn wrote a detailed paper about the well. In Heilsbronn Monastery, a spa business developed under Feuerlein’s direction, the success of which also led to increased demand for the well water, which was sent in barrels and bottles to Ansbach, Cadolzburg and Triesdorf. In 1754 Georg Christoph Feuerlein published a new edition of his fountain pamphlet, in which he incorporated the more than twenty years of experience in the spa business. However, the spa operation gradually ebbed a few decades after Feuerlein’s death and later investigations of the well water could no longer attribute any particular effect to the spring. Most recently, Feuerlein was court and garrison doctor in the capital and residence city of Ansbach and held the title of court counselor.

Works

• De abusione abstractionis metaphysicae in doctrina morum , Master's thesis, Altdorf 1717
• De amore Dei puro et perfecto , text on the habilitation, Altdorf 1717
• De situ erecto in morbis periculosis valde noxio , Dissertatio inauguralis medica, Verlag Hilliger, Halle 1722
• Heilbronn testimony of the divine goodness and provision by the ancient, but now newly discovered, Heilbronnen located in the middle of the Heilsbron monastery, whose cures, salary, power and effect, use and abuse were described on the gracious orders of the Lordship , Nuremberg 1732

literature

• Georg Andreas Will : Nuremberg scholarly lexicon ... First part. Schüpfel, Nuremberg and Altdorf 1755, p. 426.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Then the health resort went back. After 50 years, Heilbronn's “healing” water turned out to be a simple source. Article in the section Franken und Bayern of the Franconian regional newspaper in Ansbach on August 16, 1962