Gerhard Ellissen

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Gerhard Friedrich Wilhelm Ellissen (born January 4, 1778 in Northeim , † January 4, 1838 in Gartow ) was a German medic .

Life

Gerhard Friedrich Wilhelm Ellissen, born as the son of the clergyman August Friedrich Ellissen in Northeim on January 4, 1778, was educated at the grammar school in his hometown. In 1794 he began his three-year study of law , physics , mathematics and astronomy at the University of Göttingen , passed the lawyer exam in 1797 and became a lawyer in Northeim. As he was not satisfied with this job, he began to study medicine at the same university and obtained his doctorate in 1801 . He then went on a multi-year trip to learn more about medicine. The journey took him through France , Italy and Austria . For several months, which he spent in Paris , he worked as a portrait painter . He was also in Padua and Vienna for a long time . In 1804 he gave lectures on the theory of nature in Hamburg . Two years later he became a general practitioner in Schnackenburg , in 1813 a district doctor in Uelzen , and the following year a country doctor for Dannenberg , Hitzacker and Schnackenburg. From 1814 he lived in Gartow. In 1820 he was employed as a court doctor and became involved in the region around 1830 during a cholera epidemic. In 1835 he was appointed to the Secret Medical Council . He died in Gartow on January 4, 1838. He was married to Marianne Jacobi, who lived from 1786 to 1846, and left behind, among others, the politician Adolf Ellissen .

Ellissen was buried in the Buchhorster cemetery and after its abandonment, his tomb was moved next to the main portal of St. George's Church in Gartow.

Works

  • About the current practice of doctors (1821)
  • On the Classification of Curkosten in the Concourse Process (1827)
  • A few more contemporary remarks, understandable even for non-doctors, on the system of homeopathy, which aroused so general interest in our days (1834)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wendland-Lexikon , Volume 1, Lüchow 2000, p. 174
  2. ^ Ernst-Günther Behn: The Hannoversche Wendland. Churches and chapels . Lüchow 2011, p. 59

literature

personal data
SURNAME Ellissen, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellissen, Gerhard Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Northeim
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1838
Place of death Gartow