Heinrich Christoph Ebell

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Portrait medallion of archiatrist Heinrich Christoph Ebel with allonge wig and coat of arms ; in the base the reference to King George I of Great Britain; Copper engraving by Johann Georg Wolffgang from 1728 after a painting by Willem de Keyser

Heinrich Christoph Ebell (born October 11 or October 21, 1652 in Göttingen ; died May 25, 1727 in Hanover ) was a German physician , Duke Braunschweig-Lüneburg physician and court physician as well as physician and mathematician in the United Kingdom . His correspondence with the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz became part of the UNESCO world heritage .

Life

Born a few years after the end of the Thirty Years' War in Göttingen in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Heinrich Christoph Ebell was the son of Göttingen council pharmacist Johannes Ebell (1622–1686) and his wife Anna Cath. Vetten, daughter of the Göttingen city surgeon Vetten.

Ebell studied from 1672 at the University of Jena as a student of the mathematician Erhard Weigel and at the University of Leiden . He graduated with the title as Dr. med. and made several trips through England, France and Italy.

In 1678 Ebell established himself as a general practitioner in Celle . The first of two letters from Leibniz to Ebell dates from the end of 1679 , while Ebell wrote four letters to Leibniz up to April 14, 1681. During this period Ebell worked from January 1680 as a ducal personal and court physician, initially for Duke Georg Wilhelm and later for Elector Georg Ludwig, who became King George I of Great Britain.

Also in 1680, Ebell's mother died near Gandersheim at the end of May .

In the former royal seat of Celle, Ebell took on the duties of inspector of the electoral court pharmacy in Celle together with Robert Schott (1646–1714), the secret chamber and government councilor Albert Andreas von Ramdohr (1649–1730) and the Celle court pharmacist Johann Peter Finger true. In this function, for example, they signed a recommendation for Ewald Jäger from Schleswig, who had previously worked in the court pharmacy as a journeyman in the name of their sovereign, Elector Georg Ludwig , who had proven himself to be “efficient and well-behaved” and asked for his resignation, since he had “done proper Vocation ”had been appointed to the pharmacist of the Ratsapotheke in Hanover. The certificate later found its way into the archives of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

After the beginning of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover, Ebell worked as the Royal British Personal Physician and held this position in London , among other places .

In the royal seat of Hanover , Ebell, together with the personal and court physicians August Johann von Hugo and Wolff , tried a few weeks before the death of the theologian, consistorial councilor and court preacher Levin Burchard Langschmidt on April 23, 1722, with medication prescriptions for his temporary recovery.

family

Heinrich Christoph Ebell was married three times, including Dorothea Willich (1671–1748), daughter of the physician, councilor and Leibmedicus Martin Willich (1643–1697) and Marie Helena Conerding (1647–1722) from Hildesheim originating from the Conerding family of doctors . She was a granddaughter of Dietrich Konerding (1611–1684), who, like Ebell, had worked as a court doctor in Celle.

The Ebell couple's children were four sons

  • Ernst Christoph Ebell (1690–1760), who later became a physician, court and personal physician and city physician in Hanover ,
  • the later chief bailiff in Ratzeburg Christian Ludewig Ebell (1694–1748),
  • the later court judge in Celle Otto Friedrich Ebell (1695–1752) and
  • Georg Ebell (1696–1770), later the Protestant abbot of the Loccum monastery and founder of the insurance company.

About the genealogy of the family a 32-page manuscript was printed in Hanover in 1747, which found its entry into the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library .

Fonts (selection)

  • Erhard Weigel (author), Heinrich Christoph Ebell (respondent): Pendulum ex Tetracty deductum ... Praeside Erhardo Weigelio ... ad diem September II. MDCLXXIV sistit Henricus Christophorus Ebell, Aut. et Resp. , also dissertation at the University of Jena, Jenae: Werther, 1674; Digitized via Google books
  • Heinrich Christoph Ebell, Georg Wolfgang Wedel : Cultum Debitum Et Observantiam Viro Nobilissimo ... Domino Georgio Wolffgango Wedelio, Doctori, Medico Ducali Saxo-Gotgano ... Præceptori Optatissimo, cùm ad III. Id. Febr. Anni MDCLXXIII Jenæ Professor Publicus Ordinarius ... proclamaretur, offert Henricus Christophorus Ebell, Gœttingâ-Saxo, Phil. & Medic. Stud. , Jenæ: Characteribus Johannis Jacobi Bauhoferi, [1673]; Digitized via the Coburg State Library

portrait

A portrait with the image of Heinrich Christoph Ebell can be found in the portrait collection of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel .

literature

  • Mr. Heinrich Christoph Ebell Königl. Great Britannian Leib-Medici from three marriages, especially with women Dorothea Willich produced Descendence , Hanover in 1747. November.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ebell, Heinrich Christoph (May 25, 1727) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition
  2. ↑ a b c d Peter Mortzfeld ( arr .): Ebell, Heinrich Christoph , in ders .: Catalog of graphic portraits in the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel 1500–1850 . Row A: The portrait collection of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Biographical and bibliographical descriptions with artist register , vol. 30: Bre - Em / A 2765 - A 5598 , KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-31480-9 , p. 343; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ A b c d Hans Georg von Ribbeck:  Ebell, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 222 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ a b Matthias Blazek : The history of the farm pharmacy in Celle , part 2: The medicine house goes into private hands , in: Sachsenspiegel , article on the page of the Cellesche Zeitung from April 16, 2016; on-line
  5. ↑ David Rupert Erythropel : The gem kept by Christo a faithful teacher, or the heavenly Beylage, Which at the funeral of the people rich in people ... Mr. Levin Burchard Langschmids, Königl. Great Britain and Chur Prince. Braunschw. Luneburg. Past consistorial and church rahts, as well as well-merited court preacher Since whose dead body d: May 7th, 1722. was nested in his quiet room in the Neu-Städter court church, the present mourning gathering for Consolation, introduced in a corpse sermon / by Davide Ruperto Erythropilo, SS. Th. Lto. Royal Great Britain and Chur Prince. Braunschw. Lüneb. Ober-Hof-Prediger, Consistorial-Raht and Superintendent of the Neustadt Hannöverischer Inspection , Hanover, printed in 1722, p. 24; [29 ,% 22panX% 22: 0.384,% 22panY% 22: 0.364,% 22view% 22:% 22thumbnails% 22,% 22zoom% 22: 0.734} digitized] via the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB)
  6. ↑ a b Proof of the Baden-Württemberg Library Service Center (BSZ) and the GBV network center (VZG)
personal data
SURNAME Ebell, Heinrich Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ebel, Heinrich Christoph; Ebel, Henrich Christoph; Ebell, Henricus Christophorus; Ebelius, Henricus Christophorus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, physician, Duke Braunschweig-Lüneburg court and personal physician as well as Royal British personal physician
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1652 or October 21, 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1727
Place of death Hanover