Georg Friedrich Franck of Franckenau

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Georg Friedrich Franck von Franckenau , also Georg Friedrich Frankus von Frankenau (born August 28, 1669 in Strasbourg / France , † in May 1732 in Copenhagen / Denmark ) was a German physician and lawyer as well as a member of the academy of scholars " Leopoldina ".

Life

Georg Friedrich Franck von Franckenau was the son of the doctor Georg Franck von Franckenau . He studied medicine and law in Heidelberg and received his doctorate from the University of Jena. He was initially an associate professor of medicine at Wittenberg. From 1695 he stayed in Denmark. In 1701 he became a full professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen. He was councilor of the Supreme Royal Danish Court and assessor of the Consistory. He dealt with the healing effects of music.

In 1693 Franck was ennobled by Franckenau. His brother was the lawyer, diplomat and poet Gerhard Ernst Franck von Franckenau.

On May 15, 1692, Georg Friedrich Franck von Franckenau with the nickname PHILARETUS I was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 190 ) in the Leopoldina .

Publications

  • as the doctoral supervisor of Carl Musäus: Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica De Unguibus Monstrosis, Et Cornuum Productione In Puella Cornigera Lalandiæ , Verlag Martin Copenhagen, Univ., Diss., 1716 (lat.).
  • as editor: Georg Franck von Franckenau, Satyrae medicae XX. Quibus accedunt Dissertationes VI varii simulque rarioris argumenti, una cum Oratione de studiorum noxa. Leipzig 1722. (The Corning Museum library of rare books).

literature

  • Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 479 digitized
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 199 (archive.org)
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 151 ( archive.org ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Stoepel (ed.): General musical indicator , 1st year, Frankfurt a. M. 1862, p. 420. Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Franck von Franckenau, Georg Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philaretus I .; Frankus von Frankenau, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1669
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg , France
DATE OF DEATH May 1732
Place of death Copenhagen , Denmark