Georg Friedrich Ballhorn

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Georg Friedrich Ballhorn (born August 1, 1770 in Hanover , † August 7, 1805 in Neustadt am Rübenberge ) was a German court medic and vaccination pioneer .

In 1799, just a year after its publication, Ballhorn translated Edward Jenner's work on the causes and effects of cowpox into German at the suggestion of Christian Friedrich Stromeyer . The work is considered a pioneering work in the history of vaccination. In the spring of 1799 he began researching it himself. From January 1800 he made the first attempts at counter-vaccination.

Ballhorn's father Ludwig Wilhelm Ballhorn was director of the Hanover Lyceum , which Ballhorn also attended himself. His mother (née Wolkenhaar) was superintendent of the court sons and daughters school in Hanover. Ballhorn studied medicine in Göttingen from 1788 , where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1792 with his work: "Dissertatio inauguralis medica sistens quorundum phaenomenorum periodicorum in homine observabilium caussas probabiles" . He then taught there for two years. After a research trip to Vienna , he returned to Hanover. Ballhorn was also a member of the Physical Society of Göttingen. He died on August 7, 1805 as a result of emaciation .

family

Georg Friedrich Ballhorn was born on November 10, 1801 with Frederike Henrike, born on October 7, 1774. Hartelmann married.

Works (selection)

  • Eduard Jenners of Arzneywissenschaft Doctor and member of the Royal. Society of Sciences Investigations into the causes and effects of cowpox, a disease which has been noted in some western provinces of England, especially in Gloucestershire. Translated from English by G [eorg] Fr [iedrich] Ballhorn d. AWD, Gebr. Hahn, Hanover 1799
  • Traité de l'inoculation vaccine avec l'exposé et les résultats des observations faites sur cet objet à Hannovre et dans les environs de cette capitale, Leipzig 1801 (Ballhorn and Stromeyer 1801)
  • On Declamation in Medical and Dietary Regions / Ballhorn, Georg Friedrich
  • Overview of the experiments carried out in Hanover with cowpox vaccination. In: N. Hanover. Magazine (10), 1800. With CF Stromeyer

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New general intelligence paper for literature and art 1st piece, Saturday 5th January 1805, Leipzig University, Georg Friedrich Ballhorn, pp. 799–805
  2. ^ Wolfgang U. Eckart: Introduction. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart (Ed.). Jenner. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-642-41678-1 , pp. 1-20.
  3. ↑ Irmtraut Sahmland: Ballhorn, Georg Friedrich. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 134 f.
  4. ^ Georg Friedrich Ballhorn, Christian Friedrich Stromeyer : Traité de l'inoculation Vaccine avex l'exposé et les résultats des observations faites sur cet objet à Hannovre et dans les environs de cette capitale, par Mr. Ballhorn, Medecin de la cour et Mr. Stromeyer, Surgery de la cour. Rein, Leipzig 1801 ( digitized ).
  5. ↑ Complete dissertation by Georg Friedrich Ballhorn (author), Göttingen 1792, 40 p., In: wellcomelibrary.org
  6. ↑ Nekrolog v. Dr. Geo. Ludwig Hansen. In: New general intelligence sheet for literature and art, 1805, pp. 800–803
personal data
SURNAME Ballhorn, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court medic and vaccination pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1805
Place of death Neustadt am Rübenberge