Georg Ludwig Heinrich Karl Wedemeyer
Georg Ludwig Heinrich Karl Wedemeyer (born April 22, 1790 in Elbingerode ; † December 15, 1829 in Hanover ) was a doctor and physiologist from the Electorate of Hanover .
origin
He was the son of the bailiff of Elbingerode Christian Friedrich Wedemeyer . His brother Johann Friedrich Adolph Ferdinand (1793–1863) became Minister of State of Hanover.
Life
He received his education at the Berge monastery and enrolled at the University of Göttingen in 1808 . In 1811 he won the Prize of the Medical Faculty and received his doctorate there on July 8, 1812 with the dissertation "De febre petechiali". Then he settled as a doctor in Nordhausen and then in Hanover. There he made his first (and successful) cataract operation on February 26, 1813 . During the Wars of Liberation , he joined the Wallmoden corps as a military doctor in September 1813 and was initially director of the hospital in Lüneburg . There he was appointed chief surgeon on April 15, 1814. During the summer campaign of 1815 he organized the Hanoverian hospitals in the Netherlands and in this position, especially after the Battle of Waterloo , gave sacrificial help to the wounded. There he fell ill with a chest disease (vmtl: pulmonary tuberculosis ), which haunted him for the rest of his life. Due to his poor health, he gave up the management of the hospitals and returned to Hanover. There he was first court surgeon in March 1816 and in 1825 successor to Christian Friedrich Stromeyer as royal personal surgeon and member of the royal army medical authority.
Wedemeyer secured a memory for himself through a series of experimental works in the history of physiology. They particularly concern the study of the nervous system, breathing and blood circulation.
Works
Of the various articles published in Rust's Magazin für Heilkunde and Meckel's Archive of Practical Pharmacy are worth mentioning:
- "Commentatio historica pathologiam pilorum corporis humani sistens" (Göttingen 1813), digitized
- "About the knowledge and treatment of typhus in its regular and abnormal course" (Halberstadt 1813), digitized
- "Physiological studies on the nervous system and respiration and their influence on the organism" (Hanover 1817), digitized version
- "Investigations into the circulation of the blood and especially the movement of the same in the arteries and capillary vessels" (Hanover 1828), digitized
literature
- Julius Pagel: Wedemeyer, Georg Ludwig Heinrich Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 415.
- Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 378.
- Kauffmann, Biographical Sketch of Dr. Wedemeyer in Hanover , 1829, digitized
- Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of All Times and Nations, p. 219
- New German necrology for the year 1829, part 2, p. 974
- Gustav Wagner, The Contribution of the Royal Hanoverian Court and Personal Physicians to the Development of Dermatology in the 18th and 19th Centuries , p. 39
Individual evidence
- ↑ An attempt at an academic scholarly story from the Georg Augustus University in Göttingen, Volume 2, p.553
- ↑ Hanoverian and Electoral-Brunswick-Lüneburg State Calendar: 1818, p.74
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wedemeyer, Georg Ludwig Heinrich Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hanoverian doctor and physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elbingerode |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1829 |
| Place of death | Hanover |