Heinrich Friedrich Isenflamm

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Heinrich Friedrich Isenflamm (born June 20, 1771 in Erlangen ; † May 23, 1828 there ) was a German physician .

Life

Heinrich Friedrich Isenflamm was born as the son of the university professor of anatomy , Jacob Friedrich Isenflamm and his wife, Jacobine Christine (1747–1786), a daughter of the Erlangen theologian Johann Rudolf Kiesling (1706–1778). He had two siblings, whose brother is known by name:

  • Johann Christian Friedrich Isenflamm, practicing doctor.

He was taught by his father as well as by private tutors and from March 1783 attended the Illustre Erlangense grammar school as a secondary student. He left school in September 1785 to attend the University of Erlangen with his older brother and study medicine. He studied until 1791 and was mainly at the University of Erlangen and for six months at the University of Würzburg ; he also attended the universities in Mainz , Heidelberg , Jena , Erfurt , Leipzig and Halle .

In January 1791 he received his doctorate. med et chir. and passed the medical state examination according to the regulations of the government of Margrave Karl Alexander . He traveled to Vienna and visited the General Hospital and the Military Hospital, and he also made a detour to Pressburg . In December 1791 he returned to Erlangen and began to practice under the guidance of his father. In 1793 he disputed with the dissertation De motu linguae and gave lectures on anatomy at the University of Erlangen.

On November 21, 1794, he received a position as an associate professor of medicine at the Prussian University of Erlangen and completed his habilitation through the inaugural speech De de deominatione partium corpris humani a pathematibus given in July 1795 , after having learned about it through a Latin program Descriptio foraminum, fissararum et canalium capitis ossei and defended a dissertation, Brevis descriptio sceleti humani variis in aetatibus , published in 1796 . In 1796 he was employed as a prosector at the anatomical theater with a salary.

In the period from 1800 to 1803 he edited, together with the Leipzig anatomist Johann Christian Rosenmüller, articles for the art of dissection in two volumes, in which he published eight different articles, some of which had a purely anatomical and some a pathological-anatomical content.

In 1802 he was given the character of an imperial Russian court advisor and was appointed professor of the seventh grade for anatomy, physiology and forensic medicine at the University of Dorpat after his dismissal was approved by the Prussian government on March 7, 1803. During his seven-year stay in Russia, he made several trips to St. Petersburg , Reval , Wilna , Königsberg , Berlin , Heidelberg , Würzburg and Frankfurt an der Oder . In the summer of 1810 he returned to Erlangen for health and family reasons and received his requested release from the University of Dorpat on November 30, 1810.

In March 1811 he traveled to Munich and on April 1, 1814 was employed as the Royal Bavarian District and City Court Doctor in Erlangen. From June 1815 he was the first doctor at the temporarily established Imperial Russian Military Hospital in Erlangen.

Until his death he served as a medical examiner for fourteen years.

Even before his death, he had decreed that his corpse should be brought to the anatomical theater by four doctors and publicly dissected there, the removed organs should be added to the specimen collection and his body should then be buried. His orders were made by his sister, his son and his friend, an anatomist Dr. Gottfried Fleischmann (1777–1850) fulfilled according to the testamentary decree.

He was married to Susanna Friederike Regina (1777–1802), daughter of Dr. jur. Johann Baptist Simon ( † 1794), government lawyer in Erlangen, they had a son together.

Memberships

Heinrich Friedrich Isenflamm was registered a few weeks after the death of his father on April 14, 1793 under the registration number. In 967 elected a member of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Callisthenes II .

Since December 28, 1804 he was a member of the Imperial Physiological-Medical Society.

On August 26, 1805 he became a member of the Imperial Society of Naturalists in Moscow .

Since September 27, 1809 he was a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

On January 9, 1810 he was accepted as a member of the Imperial Academy in Vilnius.

On January 29, 1810 he became a corresponding member of the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg .

In Erlangen he became an honorary member of the physical-medical society there on September 1, 1810.

Publications

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 240 (archive.org)
  2. ^ Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 169 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Isenflamm, Heinrich Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isenflamm, Heinrich F .; Isenflamm, Henricus Fridericus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1828
Place of death gain