Joachim Dietrich Brandis

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Joachim Dietrich Brandis

Joachim Dietrich Brandis (also Dietrich Joachim Friedrich Brandis ) (born March 18, 1762 in Hildesheim , † April 28, 1845 in Copenhagen ) was a German doctor and pharmacist .

Life

Brandis came from a leading family in the city. His parents were court judge Christian Dietrich Brandis (1722–1800) and Sophie Charlotte Juliane Goedicke (1728–1785). He was the sixth of sixteen siblings. One of his brothers was Joachim Friedrich Christoph Brandis (1775–1854). Another was the Göttingen university professor Johann Friedrich Brandis (1760–1790). Opposite his father's house was a Capuchin monastery. As a boy he often observed that so-called people possessed by the devil sought help there by over reading . He was portrayed as a stocky figure with a huge head, as funny and witty.

He studied in Göttingen with Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and with the experimental physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , received his doctorate in 1785 and completed his habilitation in Braunschweig in 1791 .

From 1785 to 1787 Joachim Dietrich Brandis was a private lecturer in medicine in Göttingen and then practiced as a country doctor in Steuerwald near Hildesheim in 1787/88 and as a ducal Braunschweig medical and sanitary councilor in Hildesheim in 1788.

Brandis married Lucie Christiane Juliane Link (1765–1790; Verw. Schnecker / Schekker), the oldest widowed sister of Heinrich Friedrich Link . Her son Christian August Brandis (1790-1867) became professor of philosophy in Bonn. In 1790 he married Henriette Sophie Vortmann (1769-1817) and in 1818 Jane Marcoe (1791-1865), the daughter of Abraham Markoe and Fatera.

In 1795 Brandis was sent to Holzminden as a member of a medical commission. At the same time he worked as a well doctor in Driburg during the summer months . Here he met Adolph Freiherr Knigge , who at Brandis' request drew up and published a letter " concerning the Illuminati ". From 1799 he was a spa doctor in Holzminden.

Joachim Dietrich Brandis was a confidante of Fritz Reventlow (since 1800 curator of the University of Kiel). In 1803 he was appointed full professor of medicine in Kiel . Here he competed with Georg Heinrich Weber . In 1803 he was also elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1807, on his initiative, a private hospital was built on Haßstrasse.

When the Danish statesman Christian Bernstorff was staying in Kiel, Brandis rescued his wife from a very dangerous illness, with which he gained great authority at court. In 1810 he moved to Copenhagen, where he was appointed personal physician to Queen Maria of Hessen-Kassel . In 1811 he was awarded the title Etatsråd and in 1828 Konferensråd . He lectured at Copenhagen University for a couple of years . In 1819 he became a member of the Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab and in 1831 a member of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

Awards

  • Dannebrogorden
    • January 28, 1809 knight
    • May 25, 1826 Dannebrogsmann
    • Commander March 15, 1836
  • 1835 honorary doctorate from the medical faculty of the University of Kiel
  • 1835 Dr. phil et med. hc from the University of Copenhagen

Publications

  • Bibliothecæ medicinæ practicæ: qua scripta ad partem medicinæ practicam ; 1776, with Albrecht von Haller and Tribolet
  • Joachimi Diederici Brandis ... Commentatio de oleorum unguinosorum natura, etc ; 1785
  • Translation: Attempt at a Natural History of Chili: With a Landcharte ; 1786, by Johann Ignatz Molina
  • Remarks on a trip through the Palatinate and Zweybrück mercury mines ; 1788, with Franz Cölestin von Beroldingen
  • Instructions for the use of the Driburg baths and fountains together with a short description of the facilities and area there ; 1792
  • Surgical and physiological experiments ; 1795, with John Abernethy and Karl Gottlob Kühn
  • Johann Abernetty 's Surgical and Physiological Experiments: Uebers. and with a few notes accompanied by Joachim Diterich Brandis ; 1795
  • Experiments on the life force 1795
  • Try over the metastases
  • Experience about the effect of iron agents in general and of Driburg water in particular ; 1803 ( online )
  • Pathology ; 1808
  • Pathology, or Doctrine of the Affects of the Living Organism , 1815
  • About Psychic Remedies and Magnetism ; 1818 (theosophical mysticism) ( online )
  • Experiences about the application of cold in diseases ; 1833 (not free from a priori exuberance)
  • Zoonomy or Laws of Organic Life: which contains the articles of the Arzney Supply and an investigation into the effectiveness of the medicinal products ; 1801, with Erasmus Darwin
  • About humane life ; 1825
  • About the difference between epidemic and contagious fevers ; 1831
  • About life and polarity ; 1836
  • Nosology and therapy of cachexia ; 1839

literature

  • German Archive for the History of Medicine and Medical Geography ; Ed. 7, 1884; P. 395
  • Gerda Kreipe: Joachim Dietrich Brandis, a doctor between natural science and romanticism ; 1967
  • Hans-Adolf Soyka: The archiater Joachim Dietrich Brandis with special consideration of his importance for the University of Kiel ; 1961
  • History of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel ; Ed. 4, No. 1, 1965, p. 200
  • August Hirsch:  Brandis, Joachim Dietrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 247.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenbergs Hörer ; P. 125
  2. ↑ The journey of a naturalist and physician to France, Spain and Portugal
  3. ^ NDB on the family
  4. ↑ vifamilies.org/images/Markoe.doc
  5. ↑ Correspondence 1779-1795 ; P. 178
  6. ^ ADB on the Reventlow family
  7. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 48.
  8. ↑ Countess Elise von Bernstorff, née Countess von Dernath: A picture from the time from 1789 to 1835. From her notes
personal data
SURNAME Brandis, Joachim Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandis, Dietrich Joachim Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1845
Place of death Copenhagen