Johann Augustin Philipp Gesner

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Johann Augustin Philipp Gesner (born February 22, 1738 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , † February 28, 1801 ibid) was a German physician and pioneer in the study of aphasia .

Life

Johann Augustin Philipp Gesner was the son of the Rothenburg school principal and philologist Andreas Samuel Gesner (1689–1778). From 1756 he studied medicine at the Friedrichs University in Erlangen and the Georg August University in Göttingen and received his doctorate in Erlangen in 1760 with his dissertation sciagraphiam de acrivm in corpvs humanvm agendi modo .

Then Gesner became a doctor in Rothenburg in 1760 and a physician in Nördlingen in 1765 . In 1772 he returned to his home town of Rothenburg, where he was appointed Princely Oetting-Wallerstein and Oetting-Oettingian Councilor in 1773 .

In 1788 Gesner Physicus primarius , Senior of the Medical College of Rothenburg and Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürstischen Privy Councilor was appointed.

With the chapter Die Sprachamnesie in the second volume of his 1770 published collection of observations from the Arzneygelahrheit and Naturkunde Gesner set a milestone in the study of aphasia. Gesner is one of the pioneers in the study of speech disorders with the Danzig city doctor Johannes Schmiedt (1623–1690) and the Ulm city doctor Peter Rommel (1643–1708).

In 1761 Johann Augustin Philipp Gesner became a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and on July 27, 1766 with the academic nickname Agathinus III. under the matriculation no. 682 accepted as a member of the Leopoldina .

The pedagogue, classical philologist and librarian Johann Matthias Gesner was his uncle.

Fonts

  • Dissertatio inauguralis medica sistens sciagraphiam de acrivm in corpvs humanvm agendi modo . Tezschner, Erlangen 1760 ( digitized version )
  • Collection of observations from Arzney and natural history . First volume, Beck, Nördlingen 1769 ( digitized version )
  • Collection of observations from Arzney and natural history . Second volume, Beck, Nördlingen 1770 ( digitized version )
  • Collection of observations from Arzney and natural history . Third volume, Beck, Nördlingen 1771 ( digitized version )
  • Collection of observations from Arzney and natural history . Fourth volume, Beck, Nördlingen 1773 ( digitized version )
  • Collection of observations from Arzney and natural history . Fifth volume, Beck, Nördlingen 1776 ( digitized version )
  • The most recent discoveries in the Arzney Truth . First volume, Beck, Nördlingen 1778 ( digitized version )
  • The most recent discoveries in the Arzney Truth . Zweyter Band, Beck, Nördlingen 1782 ( digitized version )
  • The most recent discoveries in the Arzney Truth . Second volume, second department, Beck, Nördlingen 1782 ( digitized version )
  • The most recent discoveries in the Arzney Truth . Third volume, first department, Beck, Nördlingen 1786 ( digitized version )
  • The most recent discoveries in the Arzney Truth . Third volume Zwote Abtheilung, Beck, Nördlingen 1786 ( digitized version )
  • The most recent discoveries in the Arzney Truth . Fourth volume, first department, Beck, Nördlingen 1788 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Clemens Alois Baader : Lexicon of deceased Bavarian writers of the 18th and 19th centuries . 2, 1, Augsburg and Leipzig 1825, p. 62 ( digitized version )
  • Arthur Lester Benton & Robert J. Joynt: Three pioneers in the study of aphasia (Johann Schmidt, Peter Rommel, Johann Augustin Philipp Gesner) . In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 18, 1963, pp. 381-384
  • Arthur Lester Benton: Johann AP Gesner on aphasia . In: Medical History, 9, 1965, pp. 54-60
  • Claudio Luzzatti: Johann August Philipp Gesner (1738–1801): A review of his essay The language amnesia in the bicentennial anniversary of his death . In: Journal of the History of Neurosciences, 11, 1, 2002, pp. 29-34
  • Johann David Wilhelm von Winterbach: Contribution to the literary history of Franconia . Schell, Schillingsfürst 1803, pp. 47–48 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 226 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Gesner, Johann Augustin Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agathinus III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and pioneer in research into aphasia
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothenburg ob der Tauber
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1801
Place of death Rothenburg ob der Tauber