Johann Anton von Woltter

Johann Anton von Woltter , also Johann Anton Edler von Woltter (* 1709 or 1711 in Luxembourg ; † 1787 ) was a chemist , physicist , personal physician to Emperor Charles VII, general director of the medical faculty of the University of Ingolstadt and a member of the academy of scholars “ Leopoldina ”.

Life

Dr. Johann Anton Edler von Woltter was a knight of the Holy Roman Empire, councilor and senior physician to the Wittelsbach emperor Charles VII . and the ruling Duchess of Bavaria, inspector of the medical faculty in Ingolstadt and the military hospitals as well as “real secret advice” of the Churbaier Academy of Sciences and director of the philosophical class. Johann Anton von Woltter was accepted on March 7, 1754 under the surname MARCUS ARTORIUS II. In the academy of scholars "Leopoldina". ( Matriculation No. 589 )

In his investigations and work on healing waters, Johann Anton von Woltter followed the teaching and the samples of Herman Boerhaave and Friedrich Hoffmann , so as not to reveal anything “useless.” Von Woltter was of the opinion that the “medicus who gave this to the sick Gesundwasser prescribes “, know about the components of the water and the nature of its effects, as well as knowing the nature of the diseases. Water cures, and especially drinking hot water, had grown enormously since the middle of the 17th century. The water cures developed into “à la mode” therapy.

His Pharmacopoea Militaris has been translated into German. This translation was intended to ensure that the field shearers , who were involved in the custody and care of sick and wounded soldiers in the absence of a proper Medici, could read this writing and thus had instructions for their activities. The German translation of the script was thus also a kind of textbook for field shearers.

Woltter approved the main work of the Kempten doctor Christoph Jakob Mellin , the Practical Materia Medica , which was first published in 1771, for teaching at the University of Ingolstadt.

Works (selection)

• 1754: Pharmacopoea militaris in Bavariae nosocomiis usitata
• 1755: Thorough report from the Ditzenbacher Heilbrunnen in the Grafschaft Wiesensteig. Its content, effect and power, as well as it alone, mixed with milk, to be used with various diseases in the case of various diseases, treatise was recommended for publication by the Royal French Academy of Sciences in Paris on January 25, 1755, Kolb Ulm.
• 1764: Utilitas artis Chemiae

literature

• Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri , Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 517 digitized
• 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. 221 digitized
• Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 161 ( archive.org ).
• Claudia Stein: Johann Anton Wolter (1711-1787): a Bavarian court physician between enlightenment and reform, in: Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham (eds.): Medicine and religion in Enlightenment Europe. The history of medicine in context , Aldershot, Ashgate 2007, pages 173-193. University of Warwick: Claudia Stein .
• Marion Mücke and Thomas Schnalke : Briefnetz Leopoldina. The correspondence of the German Academy of Natural Scientists around 1750 , de Gruyter 2009, pages 303 + 516.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ member entry by Johann Anton von Woltter at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 21 January 2018th
2. ↑ von Woltter: Report from the Dietzenbacher Heilbrunnen , Ulm 1755, p. 4.
3. ↑ Johann Anton von Woltter: Thorough review of the Ditzenbacher Heilbrunnen in the county Wiesensteig. Its content, effect and power, as well as it alone, mixed with milk, to be used for various illnesses, treatise was recommended for publication by the Royal French Academy of Sciences in Paris on January 25, 1755, Kolb Ulm 1755, page 32.
4. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : Medical criticism in some novels of the Baroque period - Albertinus, Grimmelshausen, Lesage, Ettner , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Johanna Geyer – Kordesch: Health professions and sick people in the 17th and 18th centuries. The source and research situation, Münstersche contributions to the history and theory of medicine, edited by Karl Eduard Rothschuh and Richard Toellner , Münster 1982, p. 71.
5. ^ Preliminary report on the German translation of the Pharmacopoea Militaris, 1754, pp. 2 + 3.

Web links

• Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Prof. Dr. Johann Anton von Wolter , accessed on January 21, 2018.