Georg Gottlob Richter

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Georg Gottlob Richter

Georg Gottlob Richter (born February 4, 1694 in Schneeberg , † May 28, 1773 in Göttingen ) was a German medic.

Life

Georg Gottlob Richter was born as the son of the pastor and superintendent Georg Richter and his wife Johanna Maria, the daughter of Lieutenant Georg Pinckerts. He attended school in Schneeberg and grammar school in Plauen, where he obtained his university entrance qualification, and in 1712 began studying philosophy at the University of Leipzig . In 1713 Richter became a Baccalaurus and in 1714, with the disputation of the ortu & progressu morum humanorum, Magister of the Seven Liberal Arts .

After giving lectures in Leipzig and starting to study medicine, he moved to the University of Wittenberg on July 22, 1716 . In the summer of the following year he moved to the University of Kiel , he continued his studies in Leiden in 1718 , returned to Kiel in 1719 and received his doctorate in medicine in 1720 . In Kiel he then remained active as a doctor, became an assessor at the medical faculty and gave lectures at the university. After turning down various offers, he became personal physician to the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf and Prince-Bishop of Lübeck Adolf Friedrich of Sweden in Eutin in 1728 . In 1729 he was appointed a real councilor of justice.

In 1735 he was appointed to Göttingen by Georg II . There Richter took over the first professorship for medicine in 1736 as a royal British court advisor and personal physician . He gave lectures on internal medicine and dietetics. He also read a Collegium encyclopaedicum and on surgery. As a student of Hermann Boerhaave (1666–1738), he represented his doctrine, was considered a thorough expert on medical literature and owned a very extensive library. On February 29, 1736, Georg Gottlob Richter , nicknamed Menekrates, was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 454 ) of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

His marriage to Augusta Amalia, the daughter of the Schleswig Holstein Council Gabriel Schreiber, on May 11, 1731, remained childless.

Georg Gottlob's nephew, the son of his brother Georg Gottfried, is the surgeon August Gottlieb Richter .

Fonts

  1. De medicina firmis certisque fundamentis innixa. Kiel 1722
  2. De lacte insonte, Göttingen 1737
  3. De natura seipsam nunc vindicante nunc destruente, Göttingen 1737
  4. De divino Hippocratis. 1739
  5. De morbo hypochondriaco, 1739
  6. De salutati frigoris in medicina usu. 1740
  7. De balneo imprimius animali. Goettingen 1748
  8. Order of life for the healthy and the sick. Heidelberg: Pfähler, 1786. Digitized version of the University and State Library in Düsseldorf

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 3; Halle (Saale), 1966, p. 375
  2. ^ Wilhelm Ebstein: The sugar urine, their theory and practice . Verlag JF Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1887, p. VI
  3. August Gottlieb Richter, a nephew . In: Heinrich Rohlfes: German archive for the history of medicine and medical geography . 5. Vol. Verlag CL Hirschfeld, 1882, pp. 408-410