Gottlieb Adam Johann von Schallern
Gottlieb Adam Johann Ritter and Edler von Schallern (born February 15, 1766 in Thierstein , † October 12, 1827 in Bayreuth ) was a German medic .
Life
Schallern received his first lessons from his father, a pastor . He then attended the Lyceum in Wunsiedel and then moved to the Christian-Ernestinum high school in Bayreuth in 1782 . In 1786 he went to the University of Erlangen , where he devoted himself in particular to studying medicine. In 1790 he was there with the dissertation De Chelidonii majoris virtute medica novis observationibus firmata to Dr. med. PhD .
After traveling through Germany and Switzerland, Schallern first briefly became a doctor in Wunsiedel. In 1792 he received an appointment from the Principality of Bayreuth . There he was employed as a medical assessor for the reorganization of the medical system and in 1796 was promoted to the medical council. In 1798 he became a physician for the Bayreuth district.
Schallern was appointed midwifery teacher in 1807 and also had to participate in the training of wound care staff by giving surgical lectures. In 1811 he was appointed district medical officer at the local general commissioner in Bayreuth, and in 1817 he was employed as a councilor for the district government.
Schallern's merit is diverse. He tried to enforce the cowpox vaccination and to fight the dysentery epidemic in 1804 and to fight typhus in 1810. Bayreuth owes its bathing establishment to Schallern.
Publications (selection)
- Clear instruction to recognize and cure the cattle plague (loosening drought) , 1797.
- Some precautionary measures to prevent the further spread of the now prevailing nerve fever , Birner, Bayreuth 1814.
- Instruction of the Hundswuth to safely precede and cure it in a way that has been tried and tested through long experience , Birner, Bayreuth 1824.
literature
- Julius Pagel : Schallern, Gottlieb Adam Johann Ritter and Edler von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 565 f.
- August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of all times and peoples . Volume 5: Révolat to Trefurt. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna, Leipzig 1887, p. 203 f.
- Kaiser: Gottlieb Adam Johann Ritter and Edler von Schallern . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . Volume 5, part 2, Voigt, Ilmenau 1829, pp. 893–897.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schallern, Gottlieb Adam Johann von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schallern, Gottlieb Adam Johann Ritter and Edler von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thierstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1827 |
| Place of death | Bayreuth |