Georg Heinrich Masius

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Georg Heinrich Masius (born December 3, 1771 in Schwerin ; † August 24, 1823 in Rostock ) was a German physician and university professor.

Life

Georg Heinrich Masius was a son of the Schwerin ducal court doctor and court counselor Gustav Christian Masius (1737–1812) and his wife Margarethe Elisabeth, née. Loeper (1747-1793). After attending the Schwerin Cathedral School , he began to study theology at the University of Rostock in 1789 . In 1791 he switched to studying medicine at the University of Jena and later at the University of Göttingen . There he became a doctor med. PhD. In Jena he became a member of the Order of Constantists .

Masius began his professional activity as a general practitioner in Schwerin in 1795, changed as a general practitioner and court physician to Gnoien from 1796 to 1802 , where he also held the position of district physician for Laage , Sülze , Ticino and Gnoien from 1797 . From 1802 to 1806 he practiced again in Schwerin.

In 1806 he was appointed professor of medicine at Rostock University. After the departure of Adolf Friedrich Nolde (1764–1813), he occupied the third ducal professorship, which was particularly concerned with the subject of forensic pharmacology. He also worked as a forensic doctor in Rostock and the surrounding area. Masius was dean of the medical faculty five times and rector of the university in 1811 and 1823, and he died in this office. Heinrich Spitta was the successor to the professorship .

Masius was awarded the title of Senior Medical Council in 1821. He was "a member of various learned societies", u. a. the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Göttingen and the German Medical Art Association and also editor of several magazines.

Georg Heinrich Masius married on September 10, 1798 in Gnoien Sophie Katharina Elisabeth Hückstädt (1773–1829), daughter of Gnoien councilor and city treasurer Joachim Christoph Hückstädt.

Fonts (selection)

  • Commentatio medico-psychologica de Vesaniis in genere, et praesertim de Insania universali. Göttingen 1795 ( online slub-dresden.de )
  • Allmanach for medical policey, forensic medicine science and folk medicine with special regard to the medical needs of Mecklenburg for the year 1797. Bärensprung, Schwerin 1797 ( online digi-hub.de )
  • Contributions to the history of the cowpox vaccination in Mecklenburg. Schwerin 1802
  • A few words on anthropology in relation to folk medicine and pastoral medicine. Altona 1807
  • Mecklenburg-Schwerin Medical Laws. Rostock 1811 ( online RosDok )
  • Dog madness and its consequences: a treatise initially designed for the non-medical audience. Stralsund 1815 ( online tiho-hannover.de )
  • Instructions on appropriate behavior during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium and on sensible treatment of children in the first years of life: together with an appendix: Of some childhood diseases, knowledge of which is important to mothers. Rostock 1815
  • Handbook of Folk Medicine Science for Theologians. Fleischer, Leipzig 1817, 3 volumes
    • Physical anthropology.
    • Hygiasticity.
    • Medicine of the non-doctor.
  • Manual of the Medical Police Legislation in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Rostock / Leipzig 1818
  • Discussions on civil and criminal law from the standpoint of forensic medicine. 2 volumes, Adler, Rostock 1821
  • Handbook of Forensic Medicines for Use by Forensic Doctors and Legal Scholars. Franzen & Grosse, Stendal 1821–1832
    • Volume 1, Abth. 1-3, Volume 2, Abth. 1
    • Volume 2, Abth. 2 and Abth. 3. continued by Karl Ludwig Klose
Publisher of magazines
  • Journal for popular animal medicine, especially for farmers in Lower Saxony. 1807
  • Medical calendar for doctors and non-doctors. 1813-1815
  • Allmanac for doctors and non-doctors: for the year ... 1816–1818
  • Vandalia. Rostock 1819 ( ZDB -ID 1440170-8 )

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6386 .
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. State office of the Mecklenburg Doctors Association, Schwerin 1929, p. 249.
  • Paul Falkenberg : The professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900. Manuscript, Rostock around 1900.
  • Friedrich Brüssow: Georg Heinrich Masius. In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Volume 1 1823/1824, pp. 859-860. ( Digitalisat archive.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ A b Carl Ludwig Fernow : "Rome is a world in itself." Letters 1789–1808. Edited and commented by Margrit Glaser and Harald Tausch. Wallstein, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1314-9 , pp. 11-12
  3. ^ As described on the title: Mecklenburg-Schwerinische Medizinal-Gesetz. Rostock 1811
  4. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6386 .
personal data
SURNAME Masius, Georg Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1823
Place of death Rostock