Gustav Brückner
Gustav Adam Brückner (born December 18, 1789 in Neubrandenburg ; † March 30, 1860 in Ludwigslust ) was a German doctor and naturalist.
Life
Gustav Brückner (No. 30 in the gender census ) came from a family of academics. He was the sixth of eight children and the third son of the medical doctor, botanist and councilor Adolf (Friedrich Theodor) Brückner (1744–1823) and his wife, the landlord's daughter Ernestine, née. Lemcke (1758-1827). The doctor Adolf (Friedrich) Brückner (1781-1818) was his older brother.
He was initially tutored by private tutors, including from his future brother-in-law Franz Christian Boll , attended the scholarly school in Neubrandenburg and studied human medicine at the University of Göttingen , where he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Göttingen. In 1811 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD.
In 1811/12 he went on a study trip to Italy. In 1812 he wrote a description of the flora of Rome. In it the graminaceous genus Ampelodesmos was established.
In 1813 he settled as a general practitioner in Ludwigslust and was appointed court surgeon at the (grand) ducal court of Ludwigslust Palace . In 1818 he was appointed district physician , at the same time he became a real court medic . In 1827 he received the title of Medical Councilor and in 1835 Senior Medical Councilor . From 1828 he was assigned the department in medical matters to the government in Schwerin .
In 1835 he was a founding member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology .
Brückner undertook and published a large number of botanical, geological and geognostic studies. He encouraged his nephew Ernst Boll to naturalist operation on, led the study of Lübtheener plaster stick and had a collection of fossils and minerals.
Brückner was married to Elisabeth Wömpner (1794–1851), daughter of the grand ducal mouth cook Karl Wömpner from Ludwigslust, since 1816. Of his five children, Adolph (Friedrich Albrecht) Brückner (1817–1881) was also a doctor, city physician and medical adviser in Schwerin, and Carl (August Ernst Wilhelm) Brückner (1819–1897) became a doctor in Ludwigslust and, in 1871, medical adviser.
Works
- De vita et morbis Romanorum nostr. dierum fragmenta. Diss. 1811
- Notes on breaking water. 1817
- How is Mecklenburg's land layered and created? 1825
- Contributions to the geography of Mecklenburg. In: Freimüthiges Abendblatt. 1827
- Draft of a plant geography of Mecklenburg. In Johann Friedrich Langmann: Flora of the two Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg for schools and for self-teaching. 1841
- Instructions on how to maintain the health of seminarians. 1845
- Collaboration on Ernst Boll: Geognosy of the German Baltic Sea countries between the Eider and the Oder. 1846 ( digitized version )
- Ludwigslust and the natural sciences. In: Archives of the Association of Friends of Natural History. 1856
- Comparative compilation of mortality rates with the storm damage in the various areas of Mecklenburg. 1859
literature
- Ludwig Fromm: Brückner, Gust. Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 399.
- August Blanck , Axel Wilhelmi : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1901, p. 83f (No. 411)
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1433 .
Web links
- Literature about Gustav Brückner in the state bibliography MV
- Works by Gustav Brückner in the state bibliography MV
Individual evidence
- ↑ August Blanck, Axel Wilhelmi: The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1901, p. 57 (No. 265) - added according to family genealogy. The statement by Blanck / Wilhelmi that he was the second son is wrong.
- ↑ August Blanck, Axel Wilhelmi: The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1901, p. 78 (No. 378)
- ↑ Erich Bauer , Friedrich August Pietzsch: Critical to the early history of the Göttingen and Heidelberg Vandalia in: Yearbook Einst und Jetzt Volume 10 (1965), pp. 108-124 (p. 122, No. 22)
- ↑ Magazine of the Ges. Naturf. Friends in Berlin 1812, Isis III. P. 1748
- ↑ General repertory of the latest domestic and foreign literature. 1828, p. 236
- ↑ August Blanck, Axel Wilhelmi: The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1901, pp. 125f (No. 683); Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ August Blanck, Axel Wilhelmi: The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1901, p. 137 (No. 705); Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brückner, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brückner, Gustav Adam (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1789 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neubrandenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1860 |
| Place of death | Ludwigslust |