Gottfried von Herder (physician)

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Wilhelm Christian Gottfried Herder , from 1802 von Herder (born August 28, 1774 in Bückeburg , † May 11, 1806 in Weimar ) was a German medic.

Life

The eldest son of Johann Gottfried Herder and Maria Karoline Herder geb. Flachsland studied medicine in Jena , where Johann Christian Stark was his doctoral supervisor. He received his doctorate in 1796 and had his own practice in Weimar. In 1800 he became Provincial Akkoucheur (obstetrician) and in 1805 court medicus in Weimar. Together with Wilhelm Ernst Christian Huschke, he autopsied the body of Friedrich Schiller . Because of this process, posterity will remember him. It should also be noted that he treated his father shortly before his death and also made the diagnosis.

He wrote the work on the extension of obstetrics (Leipzig 1803) and was involved in the publication of his father's works. In 1797 Gottfried Herder married a sister of the actor and theater director Heinrich Schmidt Maria Henrietta Carolina (1775–1837), who was born in Weimar in 1779 . Herder died on May 11, 1806 of a nervous fever that was rampant in Weimar, after previously treating numerous Weimar residents. This nerve fever should correspond to typhus , which was widespread at the time .

The Herders were with the lawyer Christian Gottlob Voigt the Elder. J. , son of Minister Christian Gottlob von Voigt , befriends. In 1811 the widow Herder married (the younger) Christian Gottlob Voigt; In the spring of 1813 he was taken prisoner by the French, from which he could be freed, but whose privations brought him a febrile illness shortly afterwards, from which he died.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page 308 in Caroline Jagemann: Self-productions in the classic Weimar reading sample on Google Books
  2. ↑ http://www.pfarrerverband.de/print/artikel.php?id=1328
  3. ↑ See Heinrich Schmidt's memoirs of a Weimar veteran from the social literary and theater life. Verlag FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1856, p. 9, at Google Books
  4. ↑ Leo von Seckendorf: Korrespondenzen der Goethezeit, Edition and Commentary, Vol. I: Text, ed. by Michael Grus, Berlin-Boston, p. 867, No. 207: Karl August Böttiger , Dresden, May 16, 1806
  5. ↑ https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Das_Nervenfieber_oder_der_Typhus
  6. ^ Letter texts , index p. 691 at Google Books
  7. ^ Voigt, Christian Gottlob from in the German biography
  8. ^ Marriage and death of Voigt's son in Goethe's letters to CG von Voigt , 1968, pp. 99-103 at Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Herder, Gottfried von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herder, Wilhelm Christian Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1806
Place of death Weimar