Heinrich Spitta (physician)

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Heinrich Helmrich Ludwig Spitta (born April 14, 1799 in Hanover ; † January 20, 1860 in Rostock ) (pseud .: Heinrich Sequanus) was a German physician, poet and translator.

His parents were the businessman's father, Lebrecht Wilhelm Gottfried Spitta (* 1754 in Braunschweig; † 1805 in Hanover), businessman and language teacher, and his wife, Henriette Charlotte Frommen (* 1759 in Hanover; † March 15, 1847 ibid). His mother was a Jew, baptized in 1780, whose name was Rebekka Lehser (Loser?) Before she was baptized. His younger brother was the hymn poet Karl Johann Philipp Spitta (1801-1859).

He went to high school in Hanover and then attended the Collegium anatomico-chirogicum under the personal surgeon Christian Friedrich Stromeyer . During the summer campaign of 1815 he served in the Hanover General Hospital in Belgium under Georg Ludwig Heinrich Karl Wedemeyer . He then studied medicine in Göttingen, where he received the medical faculty award in 1818, after which he became senior assistant in the academic hospital under Karl Himly . In 1819 he traveled through Germany and northern France and spent 6 months in Paris. He completed his habilitation in Göttingen. From 1825 he was a full professor of medicine (epidemiology and forensic medicine) at the University of Rostock . and was dean of the medical faculty in 1828 and 1830 and then also rector in 1831.

Works

He already wrote during his training and published under the pseudonym Heinrich Sequanus:

  • 1819, hours of the Feyer
  • 1822, The Count of Essex , from the Spanish, digitized by Juan de Matos Fragosos , original 1638 by Antonio Coello
  • 1823, poems
  • 1825, song book of love for virgins

literature

  • Karl Ernst Hermann Krause :  Heinrich Helmrich Ludwig Spitta . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 204.
  • John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 767.
  • Adolph Carl Peter Callisen, Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors , Volume 18, p.263
  • Grete Grewolls, Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania: Das Personenlexikon , 2011
  • Johann Stephan Pütter, Friedrich Saalfeld, attempt at an academic scholarly story from the Georg-Augustus University in Göttingen , Volume 4, pp.373f

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personal data
SURNAME Spitta, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spitta, Heinrich Helmrich Ludwig (full name); Sequanus, Heinrich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1860
Place of death Rostock