Georg Thomas von Asch
Georg Thomas von Asch (born April 12, 1729 in Saint Petersburg ; † June 23, 1807 ibid) was the second city physician in St. Petersburg, division doctor in Finland, chief physician of the naval cadet corps, general staff doctor and later field marshal of the Russian army and from 1777 a state councilor Tsarina Catherine II
Life
Asch gained importance as a sponsor of the University of Göttingen , to whom he received numerous materials on the history, geology and culture of Russia over a period of more than thirty years in gratitude for his medical training as a doctor of medicine under Albrecht von Haller , which he completed there between 1748 and 1750 sent. These donations are in various collections of the University of Göttingen: Ethnographica in the collection of the Ethnological Seminar , minerals and fossils in the collection of the museum at the Geoscientific Center Göttingen, books in the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen. The correspondence and other documents are now summarized in the so-called "Asch Collection" of the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen .
In 1763 he became the first member of the Medical College in St. Petersburg. He was general staff doctor from 1768 to 1775. In 1777 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1779 the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences made him an honorary member.
literature
- Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin / Gundolf Krüger (eds.): Siberia and Russian America: Culture and Art of the 18th Century; the collection of Asch, Göttingen , Munich [a. a.] 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3786-9 (English title: Siberia and Russian America: culture and art from the 1700s; the Asch collection, Göttingen ).
- Helmut Rohlfing : A new Russian library in Göttingen: Georg Thomas von Asch as a supporter of Georgia Augusta , in: Elmar Mittler / Silke Glitsch (ed.), Russia and the “Göttingische Seele”: 300 years of St. Petersburg, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-930457-29-6 , pp. 287–302 (The entire volume is available online as a PDF document via the webdoc server of the Lower Saxony State and University Library).
- “Excellent and unforgettable merits”: Georg Thomas von Asch as a sponsor of the University of Göttingen , catalog of an exhibition in the historical building of the Lower Saxony State and University Library, April 20 to May 22, 1998, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-930457-08- 3 .
- Arnold Buchholz: The Göttingen Russian collections of Georg von Asch. A museum of the Russian history of science in the 18th century , Giessen 1961.
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Thomas von Asch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Library of Congress , Meeting of Frontiers: Collections from Goettingen State and University Library (SUB) - The Georg von Asch Collection (digital copies of books, maps and manuscripts from the "Asch Collection" on the pages of the Russian-American project "Meeting of frontiers - Встреча на границах “).
- ASCH project of the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Andreas Mettenleiter : Testimonials, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements II (A – H). In: Würzburg medical history reports. 21, 2002, pp. 490-518, here p. 491.
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 28.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Asch, Georg Thomas von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | General Staff Doctor of the Russian Army and State Councilor under Catherine II. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1729 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1807 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |