Johann Adam Schmidt

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Johann Adam Schmidt, 1801 (lithograph by Carl Heinrich Rahl after a drawing by Joseph Anton Kappeller)

Johann Adam Schmidt (born October 12, 1759 in Aub near Würzburg , † February 19, 1809 in Vienna ) was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist .

Life

He studied at the Würzburg Bader and Surgeon School , went to Prague in 1778 and participated as a junior surgeon in the Bavarian army in a Moravian military camp in the War of the Bavarian Succession.In 1784, Johann Alexander von Brambilla , who later promoted him professionally, made him a senior surgeon or surgeon. Chief Medical Officer appointed. He later continued his studies under Joseph Barth (1745-1818) in Vienna, who trained him as an ophthalmologist. In 1789 he received his doctorate from the Josephs Academy in Vienna, where he completed his habilitation in 1789 and became a full professor in 1795.

In 1795 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

He published several groundbreaking medical works, including 1801 About Nachstaar and Iritis after cataract surgery . In 1802 he founded the ophthalmological library with Karl Gustav Himly (1772–1837) , the first German-language journal on ophthalmology.

From 1801 to 1809 Schmidt was Beethoven's preferred doctor , who consulted him particularly on the treatment of his hearing impairment. In 1804/05 Beethoven dedicated his Piano Trio in E flat major, Op. 38, an arrangement of his septet in E flat major, Op. 20 to him.

Fonts

  • Commentarius de nervis lumbalibus eorumque plexu anatomico-pathologicus. Vienna 1794.
  • Speech in memory of the Imperial and Royal Council and Professor Dr. JN Hunczovsky . Held in the lecture hall of the kk medic. surgeon. Joseph Academy, when it celebrated his death memory in full gathering , Vienna: Rötzel 1798 ( digitized version ).
  • On cataracts and iritis after cataract operations , Vienna: Camesina, 1801 ( digitized ).
  • About the word terms curir and healing , in: Health Pocket Book for the year 1801 , Vienna 1801, pp. 113-135 ( digitized ).
  • Direct cures through triplicity, or: the clairvoyant blonde , in: Health Pocket Book for the Year 1802 , Vienna 1802, pp. 30–43 ( digitized version ).
  • Ophthalmic Library. Magazine, ed. by K. Himly and JA Schmidt. Jena 1802-1807.
  • Contributions to the results of the experiments with nitric acid in primitive and secondary syphilis. Disease forms , Vienna: Camesina, 1802.
  • On the diseases of the tear organ , Vienna: Geistinger, 1803 ( digitized ).
  • Prolegomena to the Syphilidoklinik , Vienna: Geistinger, 1803 ( digitized version ).
  • Handwritten textbook of the Materia Medica , ed. by Wilhelm Joseph Schmitt, Vienna: Kupffer & Wimmer, 1811 ( digitized ).
  • Lectures on syphilitic disease and its forms. Reprinted from the author's manuscript , Vienna: Kupffer & Wimmer, 1812 ( digitized ).

literature

  • Wilhelm Joseph Schmitt, Johann Adam Schmidt. A biographical sketch , in: Treatises of the Physikalisch-Medicinischen Societät zu Erlangen , Volume 1, Frankfurt am Main: Wilmans, 1810, pp. 8–15 ( digitized version )
  • Franz Graeffer , Johann Jakob Heinrich Czikann (Hrsg.): Oesterreichische National-Encyklopädie. Volume 4, Vienna 1836, pp. 559-561 ( digitized version ).
  • Willi Lohmann: The ophthalmology of Johann Adam Schmidt (1759-1809). Wolf, Munich 1903 (dissertation, University of Munich, 1903).
  • August von Rothmund :  Schmidt, Johann Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 742 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner E. Gerabek : Schmidt, Johann Adam. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1303.
  2. ↑ Werner E. Gerabek: The 'Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung' as a source for medicine, medical anthropology and natural philosophy of the Classical and Romantic periods (1795-1830). A research report. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 17, 1998, pp. 47-52; here: p. 49 f.
  3. ^ Member entry by Johann Adam Schmidt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ See Ludwig van Beethoven: Correspondence. Complete edition , ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg , Volume 1, Munich: Henle, 1996, p. 240.


personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Johann Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Aub
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1809
Place of death Vienna