Gottfried Heinrich Burghart

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Gottfried Heinrich Burghart (born July 5, 1705 in Reichenbach , Hereditary Principality of Schweidnitz , † July 16, 1771 in Brieg ) was a Silesian physician and mathematician .

Life

Gottfried Heinrich Burghart was the son of the physician and poet Christoph Gottehr Burghart , who worked as a district physician and mayor in Reichenbach, and his wife Anna Rosine, born bishop. Gottfried Heinrich attended the Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau from 1720 and studied medicine at the Alma Mater Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder from 1727 . After his doctorate as Dr. med. in 1730 he practiced as a doctor in Frankfurt an der Oder, Reichenbach and Breslau. From 1743 he was employed as a professor of mathematics and natural science at the grammar school in Brieg. In the following years he also examined and improved the Silesian mines on the orders of the king.

On March 12, 1756 he was given the academic surname Zosimus III. elected a member ( matriculation no. 609 ) of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • De termino puberty . Schwartz, Francofurtum ad Viadrum 1730 ( digitized version )
  • Historical, Physical and Medicinal Treatise, From the warm baths Bey Land-Ecke, Located in the Royal Prussian County of Glatz, belonging to the Hertduchy of Silesia, Wherein of the same invention and improvement, the natural causes, equal to their intrusion into the human body; and their exceptional use to cure many troublesome illnesses, in addition to the way they are used for bathing, drinking, sweating, etc. Tropf-Cur can be used advantageously, sufficient information is given for sufficient reasons and extensive experience . Korn, Breßlau 1744 ( digitized version )
  • New additions to the well-established art of distillation, whereby the same is explained in many places where necessary in the first section, and in the other with a considerable number of useful and correct processes, some of which have never been printed before, and in some cases little known, or described very darkly, enriched, and thus noticeably increased, and considerably improved, consequently made consistently more useful; Honestly communicated to all lovers and connoisseurs of chemistry for the special benefit and delight, for the most part from personal experience . New and revised edition, Korn, Breßlau and Leipzig 1754 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Hermann Adolph Fechner: History of the Silesian mining and metallurgy in the time of Friedrich the Great, Friedrich Wilhelm II. And Friedrich Wilhelm III. 1741-1806 . Ernst, Berlin 1903, p. 13 ( digitized version )
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 223 ( archive.org )

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personal data
SURNAME Burghart, Gottfried Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Silesian physician and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1705
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1771
Place of death Brieg