Hans Bernhard Ludwig Lembke
Hans Bernhard Ludwig Lembke (born May 1, 1722 in Greifswald , † April 11, 1803 in Lübeck ) was a German doctor and city physician of Lübeck.
Life
Lembke came from a Pomeranian family. His grandfather was a merchant in Barth , his father Christoph Lembke postmaster in Greifswald, his mother Eva Maria, geb. Weichel, was the daughter of an officer in the Swedish service.
He attended the Greifswald grammar school and was enrolled at the University of Greifswald at the age of 16 . Here he studied medicine, especially with his cousin Johann Lembke . In 1739 he made a trip to Sweden and attended Lund University , Stockholm and Uppsala University . When in February 1741 a ball lightning on the tower of St. Nikolai Cathedral terrified the inhabitants of Greifswald, he gave a scientific explanation of the phenomenon in a disputation chaired by Peter Ahlwardt in March . After defending another disputation, he went on a study trip in 1745 that took him to Leiden via Hamburg , Bremen , Deventer , Amsterdam and Haarlem . He stayed at the university there for two years and studied with Bernhard Siegfried Albinus , Hieronymus David Gaub , Adriaan van Royen and Pieter van Musschenbroek , among others . In the summer of 1746 he made a trip through the Netherlands , which took him to Haarlem, Amsterdam, Saardam , Utrecht , Rotterdam , Delft and The Hague .
In 1747 he returned to Greifswald, passed the medical exam and was promoted to Dr. with a dissertation on kidney stone on April 30, 1747 under the chairmanship of Christian Stephan Scheffel. med. PhD. A friendship with Johann Arnold Isselhorst brought him to Lübeck. Here he introduced several innovations to the city's medical practice, such as the treatment of fever with cinchona bark . In 1756 he gave his daughter the first smallpox vaccination by variolation in Lübeck. In 1762 the council appointed him assistant to the ailing city physicist of Franz Jacob von Melle (in office 1743–1770) and in 1766 as 2nd physicus with the right and duty to succeed Melles. Linked to this was the supervision of the city's midwives . In 1769 he was involved in a literary dispute with Johann Julius Walbaum about practical issues of obstetrics . In 1783 he also became a doctor at the Lübeck orphanage . Here he succeeded in significantly increasing hygiene and health and reducing the mortality rate to such an extent that only one boy died in the last four years of his tenure. He founded an institute for the feeding and healing of sick servants . In his last years in office, Georg Heinrich Behn (1773–1855) was his assistant.
He celebrated his 50th anniversary in office in 1798 and his golden wedding anniversary in 1800.
From 1750 he was married to Magdalene Elisabeth, a daughter of the businessman Johann Hinrich Tesdorpf. The couple had two daughters. The first daughter Maria Elisabet (* 1752; † 1790) was married to the businessman Joachim Philipp Lange († 1793) and mother of 10 children, of whom four were still alive in 1803. The second daughter Catharina Elisabet (* 1754) was married to the businessman Johann Peters and the mother of seven children, four of whom were still alive in 1803. The son Johann Christoph (* 1758) died in 1761.
The Lübeck Museum Behnhaus is keeping a portrait of Lembke by Friedrich Carl Gröger .
Works
- Fulgur cum tonitru in genere ut et in specie ex turri templi Nicolaitani ortum. Greifswald 1741 ( digitized version )
- De pyromania in pathologia. Greifswald 1745 ( digitized version )
- De calculo renali. Greifswald 1748
- Answer to the writing which, under the title: The Difficulties of Birth Aid demonstrated from examples, by Mr. D. Johann Julius Walbaum already made known through the print. Donatius, Lübeck / Leipzig 1769, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10248262-1
literature
- Friedrich Daniel Behn : Life and merits of the well-born, highly learned Mr. Hans Bernhard Ludwig Lembke, highly respectable Physicus of the Kayserl. freyen and salvation. Rom. Imperial City of Lübeck. Römhild, Lübeck 1803.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Lübeckische Blätter 21 (1855), p. 146f
- ↑ Inv.-No. 6958, Peter Vignau-Wilberg: The painter Friedrich Carl Gröger. Neumünster: Wachholtz 1971 (Studies on Schleswig-Holstein Art History, Volume 11), p. 109 No. 137 (with ill.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lembke, Hans Bernhard Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and city physician of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1722 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greifswald |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1803 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |