Georg Friedrich Mühry

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Johann Georg Friedrich Mühry (also: Muhry , born September 14, 1774 in Hanover ; † March 6, 1848 ibid) was a German doctor, court medic, city ​​physician, royal personal physician and author. Mühry, the reservations against smallpox - vaccination argued and wrote several scientific papers, was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and corresponded with numerous personalities of his time. He is considered one of several important physicians of the first half of the 19th century.

Life

The listed tomb of Mühry and his son Carl in the garden cemetery

family

The grandfather Georg Friedrich Mühry was " Pastor of Merum ", his father Heinrich Andreas Mühry (1738–1816), a citizen and Hanoverian city surgeon in Hanover. His mother was Marie Eleonore Kellermann (1747–1788). Mühry married Anne Emilie Eleonore Beckedorff (1781-1819) in 1805 , who gave birth to three daughters and seven sons, including Karl , Ernst and Adolf Mühry . Three of Mühry's children died before their father, his wife Emilie also died decades before Mühry.

Career

Born at the time of the Electorate of Hanover and the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover , Georg Friedrich Mühry initially only attended a simple school in Hanover at the end of the 18th century. When “playing on the street”, however, Kohlrausch , who lived in the neighborhood, called him into his apartment, “examined” the boy and arranged for him to visit this same high school. Mühry also promoted the “affection” of Johann Ernst Wichmann , the personal medic.

After Mühry's school attendance, the anatomist and physicist Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt took the young person into his home in Braunschweig and allowed Mühry to attend classes at the local Collegium Carolinum for two years .

A year later Georg Friedrich Mühry attended the University of Göttingen , where he was taught by Heinrich August Wrisberg , Johann Friedrich Gmelin , Friedrich Benjamin Osiander and August Gottlieb Richter ; AG Richter assisted at the “ Freemason Hospital” there. In 1796 Mühry wrote his dissertation on the use of carbon dioxide for consumption . in the same year he became a full member of the Societatis Physicae Privatae Gottingensis, which was then absent in 1800 .

Supported by a grant from the Hanoverian government, Mühry was able to undertake a study trip via Berlin and Jena to Vienna , where he attended Johann Peter Frank at the Vienna Hospital and the Vienna Medical School . In Vienna Mühry was infected with the typhoid pathogen, but was cured by JP Frank.

Georg Friedrich Mühry then settled in his hometown as a general practitioner, which initially resulted in some hardships due to the limited financial resources.

In 1815 Mühry became a corresponding member, in 1846 a “foreign” member of the Society of Sciences in Göttingen . Mühry's further career in Hanover - he refused an appointment to Kiel as the successor to Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann - led through the general practitioner first to the obstetrician and forensic doctor, then to the court medical officer and finally to the chief medical officer in the Kingdom of Hanover .

Mühry had been appointed personal physician to the King of Hanover as early as 1833, although Ernst August I , coming from London , made a solemn entry into his intended residence city Hanover in 1837 and had previously been represented by his viceroy , Adolph Friedrich, Duke of Cambridge .

In 1840 Mühry became a member of the medical examination board and was appointed Hanoverian city physician.

The court and state handbook for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1846 also identified Mühry as a doctor “of the orphanage and prison ” and as a bearer of the Knight's Cross of the Royal Guelph Order .

Georg Friedrich Mühry's - listed - tomb, together with his son Carl, can be found in the garden cemetery in Hanover.

Fonts (selection)

  • de aëris fixi inspirati usu in phthisi pulmonali , dissertation , 1796
  • Ludwig Heinr. Niemeyer, Materials on Excitation Theory , 1800
  • Materials on the theory of excitation, by D. Ludwig Heinrich Christian Niemeyer, because. general practitioner in Hanover, member of the physical society Gesellschaft zu Göttingen. Edited by D. Georg Friedrich Mühry, [p] raktischem doctor in Hanover , Rosenbusch, Göttingen 1800; 11080019 in VD 18 .
  • Article by Mühry in Christoph Wilhelm von Hufeland : CW Hufelands Journal der practical Heilkunde , 1809, March, p. 1
  • Advice and precautions. Recommended to his fellow citizens against the impending cholera / by Dr. G. Fr. Mühry . Second edition. Helwing, Hanover 1831

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, Mühry's tomb names the year of birth 1773

literature

Web links

Commons : Georg Friedrich Mühry  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Dirk Böttcher: MÜHRY ... (see literature)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Hans-Joachim Heerde: Mühry , (see literature)
  4. ↑ August Hirsch: Mühry ... (see literature)
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Friedrich August Schmidt (Ed.): Dr. med. ... (see literature)
  6. ↑ Ernst Gurlt:  Richter, August Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 447-451.
  7. ↑ Dieter Brosius : 1837 , in: Hannover Chronik , here: p. 118; online through google books
  8. ↑ Hof Medici and Hof Chirurgus . In: Hof- und Staats-Handbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1846 , p. 9; Digitized via Google books
  9. ↑ Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: garden church and garden cemetery . In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover , Part 1, Volume 10.1, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 65 f., As well as Annex Mitte , in: Directory of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 3 f.
personal data
SURNAME Mühry, Georg Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mühry, Johann Georg Friedrich (full name); Muhry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, court medic, city physician, royal personal physician and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1848
Place of death Hanover