Heinrich David August Ficinus

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Heinrich David August Ficinus (born September 18, 1782 in Dresden ; † February 16, 1857 there ) was a Saxon , German physician and naturalist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Ficinus ".

Life

Born as the son of the pharmacist David Ficinus and his wife Johanna Elisabeth (née Mücke), he began an apprenticeship in 1795 in his father's “Mohrenapotheke”. After working as an assistant in Kamenz , Prague and Breslau , he began to study at the Berlin Collegium medico-chirurgicum from 1803 . In 1804 he passed his pharmacist examination in Dresden and in 1805 moved to the University of Wittenberg . In 1806 he received his doctorate in medicine with the treatise De Hydrope .

He returned to Dresden and ran his own practice. In 1814 he was appointed professor of physics and chemistry at the surgical-medical academy founded there. In 1817 he took over the professorship for natural history, pharmacy and general and special therapy at the veterinary school incorporated there . After the technical educational institute was founded in Dresden , he took over a teaching post for chemistry, technology and physics there from 1828 to 1833. He gave his lectures first in the Brühl garden pavilion and from 1829 in the Kuffenhaus on Zeughausplatz . On the side he ran his father's pharmacy since 1822. Ficinus died in Dresden in 1857 and was buried in the Trinitatisfriedhof .

In addition to his official duties, he wrote several literary works dealing with topics in the fields of botany, optics and mineral chemistry. He also wrote textbooks. Ficinus, who had also been in contact with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , had been a member of the German Leopoldina since 1818 .

Fonts

  • Cinchonine . 1815.
  • Flora of the area around Dresden . 1807/08, 1838, 1850.
  • Optics or an attempt at a consistent outline of the entire doctrine of light . 1828.
  • The beginnings of medical physics .
  • The beginnings of medicinal chemistry . 1815.
  • Physics, presented in general terms . 1828, 2 vol.
  • General natural history . 1839.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Technical University of Dresden (ed.): Graves of professors of the alma mater dresdensis in cemeteries in Dresden and the surrounding area . 2nd Edition. Lausitzer Druck- und Verlagshaus, 2003, p. 43.
personal data
SURNAME Ficinus, Heinrich David August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1857
Place of death Dresden