Johann Albrich (physician)
Johann Albrich (* 1687 in Kronstadt / Transylvania ; † 1749 in ibid.) Was a Transylvanian doctor and member of the " Leopoldina ."
Johann Albrich had studied medicine in Halle, Leiden and Utrecht. From 1715 to 1732 he was physicist of Kronstadt. Between 1718 and 1719 the plague raged in Kronstadt and Burzenland . Albrich worked in the fight against the largest plague epidemic that had occurred in Kronstadt. On March 8, 1740, Johann Albrich sent Johann Heinrich Schulze in Halle a letter with the “Observationes de peste Barcensi in Transylvania ann. 1718 et 1719, praesertim Coronae saeviter grassata “. He enclosed gold ore from a Transylvanian gold mine and added gold coins, silver coins and bronze coins to the letter. He also sent samples of a Persian healing clay . These were brought to Wallachia by Romanian and Armenian monks in cylinders . The same was taken internally against quartan fever ( malaria ). Externally, the healing earth was used by Romanian nobles as an effective remedy for pleuritides . Thereupon Albrich was appointed a member of the Leopoldina on June 25, 1740 at the suggestion of Professor Johann Heinrich Schulze . He was nicknamed CHRYSIPPUS III. On August 8, 1740, Albrich received the Leopoldina membership diploma. He thanked him for his appointment in a letter in reply. This letter of thanks is available in the Leopoldina archive.
Johann Albrich was the father-in-law of the medical doctor Samuel von Drauth .
plant
- 1740: Observationes de peste Barcensi in Transylvania ann. 1718 et 1719 .
literature
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 216 digitized
- Arnold Huttmann : Medicine in old Transylvania , Hora Hermannstadt / Sibiu 2000, p. 303.
- Eugen von Trauschenfels: Albrich, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 324 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Johann Albrich at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 19, 2017.
- ↑ Michael Gottlieb Agnethler: Numophylacium Schulzianum , Leipzig and Halle 1846, p. 324.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Albrich, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Transylvanian doctor and member of the "Leopoldina" |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1687 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kronstadt / Transylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1749 |
| Place of death | Kronstadt / Transylvania |