Jacob Mumssen

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Jacob Mumssen , also Mumsen , called "Toby" (born August 13, 1737 in Hamburg , † June 20, 1819 in Altona ) was a German doctor and writer.

Life

Mumssen was a student at the Johanneum and then attended the Academic Gymnasium . He then worked as a translator for the English army. He began studying medicine in Leipzig in 1763 and graduated in 1766 with a doctorate. He made trips to Vienna and Holland and lived for a time in England. 1770–1784 he was a doctor in Hamburg , 1784–1789 in Copenhagen , then for a short time in Pinneberg and from 1789 as a physician in Altona .

He was friends with the Danish Minister Bernstorff, but above all with Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , Gottlob Friedrich Ernst Schönborn , Johann Georg Büsch , Matthias Claudius . He published medical writings, translated and was an employee of the Deutsches Museum , which Heinrich Christian Boie edited. From 1789 he was a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences .

Mumssen was probably first a Freemason in Leipzig , then was a member of the Hamburg Lodge Absalom zu den Drei Nesseln , in 1771 in the Lodge Zu den Drei Rosen , whose lodge master 1773–1790, "the soul of the entire lodge life at that time" with his brother Dietrich, called " Thick". From 1777 to 1780 he was state grand master of the great state box of the Freemasons of Germany in Berlin. He was Illuminat under the name "Montaigne".

He was made a knight of the Danebrog in 1815 and died unmarried in Altona. His nickname "Toby" is quoted everywhere; he aimed at his character, since with Lawrence Sterne Tristram Shandy's uncle Toby is a "meek, skeptical of knowledge, completely inexperienced in love affairs" man.

In Hamburg-Altona, Mumsenstrasse has been named after him since 1950.

Works

  • Thoughts on the air and its influence on the growth and nourishment of organic and living beings . Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann, Hamburg 1787 ( slub-dresden.de ).
  • Brief news of the epidemic runny nose and the nature of the air in 1781 and 1782 . Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann, Hamburg 1782, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11269295-6 .

translation

literature

  • Helmut Riege (ed.): Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock . Letters 1776-1782. tape 2 , Apparatus Commentary, No. 1-131 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1982, p. 440 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present , Vol. 5, Hamburg 1870, No. 2753

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg personalities: Jacob Mumsen. Historical Museums Foundation Hamburg, accessed on March 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Last name and date of death for Schüttler - s. below - wrong.
  3. ↑ Helmut Riege (ed.): Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.
  4. ^ Sources apart from those mentioned in the individual references: Heinz Jansen: Aus dem Göttinger Hainbund , Münster 1933, p. 111 f .; Albrecht Janssen: 190 years of St. Johannisloge To the three roses in Hamburg , Hamburg 1960, pp. 49–54.
  5. ↑ Friedrich Kneisner: An old book presence . In: Zirkelkorrespondenz 1902 p. 207.
  6. ^ Johann Georg Rist : Schönborn and his contemporaries , Gotha 1888, p. 278.
  7. ↑ Schüttler, s. below, and Carl Bröcker: Die Freemaurer-Logen Deutschlands… 1894 , reprint 1984, p. 8.
  8. ^ Hermann Schüttler: The members of the Illuminati Order 1776–1787 / 93 . Ars Una, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-89391-018-2 , p. 108.
  9. ↑ Schüttler, s. above.
  10. ↑ Kindlers Neues Literatur-Lexikon , 1988, Vol. 15, p. 969.
  11. ↑ Hamburg personalities: Jacob Mumsen. Historical Museums Foundation Hamburg, accessed on March 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Must have, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toby (nickname); Mumsen, Jacob; Mumsen, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1819
Place of death Altona