Heinrich Wilhelm Danzmann

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Heinrich Wilhelm Danzmann , complete Heinrich Wilhelm Benedikt Danzmann , also Dantzmann (born September 5, 1759 in Kiel , † 1843 in Lübeck ) was a German physician , city ​​physician in Lübeck and the first spa doctor in Travemünde .

Life

Dan (t) zmann was a son of the lawyer Johann Balthasar Dantzmann. He grew up with his uncle, the commissary Johann Christian Schnepel in Boksee and attended the Katharineum in Lübeck . From 1774 he studied medicine at the University of Copenhagen . In 1778 he became a company surgeon and in 1779 an upper ship surgeon . As such, he accompanied five sea voyages and also came to the East Indies . He then finished his studies in Copenhagen and was awarded a doctorate in ship medicine at the University of Kiel in 1785. med. PhD.

In 1786 he followed an appointment as a midwifery teacher in Lübeck. Since his admission to the Johannisloge Louise for crowned friendship in Kiel in 1785 Freemason , he joined the Lodge Zum Füllhorn in Lübeck . Together with seven lodge brothers, he was one of the 25 founders of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in 1789 . From 1791 to 1792 he was the first city physician in Riga . He returned to Lübeck, where in 1802 he was one of the founders of the Travemünde seaside resort together with Nikolaus Heinrich Brehmer and Christian Heinrich Lembke . Danzmann became the first spa doctor at this facility. In 1809 he founded the Lübeck Medical Association with other doctors from Lübeck .

On April 17, 1813, the Lübeck council appointed him as the successor to Theodor Friedrich Trendelenburg as a city physician. He held this office until his retirement on October 5, 1831. His successor was Johann Christian Jeremias Martini . In 1817 he was also temporarily active again as a midwifery teacher before Matthias Ludwig Leithoff , who he proposed, was entrusted with this task.

The Lübeck Museum Behnhaus keeps a portrait of Danzmann von Hesse (1830).

The Danzmannstraße in Travemünde was named after him.

Works

  • Healing story of a wounded man. 1778.
  • Healing history of hardening of the liver due to the mercury treatment. Copenhagen 1779.
  • Contributions to the preservation of the ship's people. Copenhagen 1781.
  • Theses Dissertationi Inavgvrali Medicae Morborvm Qvorvndam Epidemicorvm In Itineribvs Maritimis Observatorvm Et Tractatorvm Historias Et Medelas Exhibenti / Praemissae Et Praeside ... Iohanne Christiano Kerstens ... Pvblico Ervditorvm Examino Ae Kiliens ... PP In Academia Kiloniensi DX Ivl. MDCCLXXXV. Litteris me. Frider. Bartschii Acad. Typograph., Kiel 1785.
  • with Christian Heinrich Lembke: About the private seaside resort near Travemünde. Lübeck 1803.
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Annals of the Travemünder Seebad 1817. Rohden, Lübeck 1818.

literature

  • Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Medicinisches Writer's Lexicon of the now living authors. Volume 4, Copenhagen 1831, pp. 516-518.
  • Carl Friedrich Wehrmann : The seaside resort in Travemünde. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. 7 (1898), pp. 108–129 ( digitized version )
  • Christine Loytved: Midwives and their teachers: turning points in training and office Lübeck midwives (1730–1850). (= Women's health. Volume 2). Rasch, Osnabrück 2002, ISBN 3-935326-76-9 , pp. 138-145. (see: Osnabrück, Univ., Diss. 2001)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Hennings: History of the Johannis Lodge "Zum Füllhorn" zu Lübeck, 1772-1922. Lübeck 1922, p. 15
  2. ↑ C. Loytved: Midwives and Their Teachers. 2002, p. 221.
  3. ↑ C. Loytved: Midwives and Their Teachers. 2002, p. 341.
personal data
SURNAME Danzmann, Heinrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danzmann, Heinrich Wilhelm Benedikt (full name); Dantzmann, Heinrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, city physician in Lübeck and first spa doctor in Travemünde
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH 1843
Place of death Lübeck