Johann Baptist Schmigd

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Johann Baptist Schmigd , also Schmiegd (born June 1752 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , † March 12, 1828 in Düsseldorf ) was a German physician.

Live and act

He was born the son of the Neustadt sculptor Conrad Schmiegd (1720–1780) and the grandson of the artist Georg Friedrich Schmiegd (1688–1753), who worked in the same profession .

Johann Baptist Schmigd studied theology, canon law and philosophy at the Universities of Heidelberg and Strasbourg . Then he switched to medicine and attended the University of Duisburg on April 9, 1776 . Here he received his doctorate in medicine on June 4, 1777.

Then he went to Kaiserswerth , where he worked as a general practitioner and was employed by the government of the Duchy of Berg as a city ​​physician and penitentiary doctor . The sovereign was Elector Karl Theodor , who also ruled in Schmigd's home in the Electoral Palatinate . Here in Kaiserswerth he married the daughter of the court chamber councilor Konrad Elberskirchen in 1783 .

In 1786 Johann Baptist Schmigd was appointed second city physician and medical advisor to the state capital Düsseldorf. Here he worked as a general practitioner and medical officer until his death. In addition, he published specialist publications, in particular on animal diseases, and also gave lectures at the Düsseldorf Academy (Collegium medicum), the predecessor institute of Heinrich Heine University . Schmigd published a. a. the books collection of some treatises on various diseases of horses and sheep, as well as the general horned cattle disease (Nuremberg, 1779), lessons on the cattle disease (St. Gallen, 1795) and contribution to the history and healing of the rampant horned cattle disease (Düsseldorf, 1797). In 1827 he celebrated his 50th anniversary in service and the Prussian government, which is now responsible for Düsseldorf , awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd Class ( Officer's Cross ). He died of bloodletting and the wound bleeded again the following night.

reception

Johann Baptist Schmigd owned an extensive, mainly medical library, the 1900 or so volumes of which were transferred from his estate to the Neustadt / Weinstrasse city administration, and from there in 1960 most of them were transferred to the Mainz University Library . Here they form the Schmigd Collection . He had bequeathed the books to his hometown Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (then Neustadt an der Haardt ), "for the constant use of the doctors who live there". A smaller part of the books left behind went to the Palatinate State Library in Speyer . There, too, they form their own collection as the Schmigd library and a web publication about them or the original owner says: “The part of the library located in Speyer contains ancient medicine - including various Hippocrates editions up to the 16th century broad range of subjects and suggests a conscious collector who had strong interests in the fields of history, philosophy, also occultism, ancient and modern languages ​​and the natural sciences ”.

In 1793 the doctor Karl Theodor Kortum dedicated the 2nd volume of his medical and surgical manual for eye diseases to Johann Baptist Schmigd . Occasionally the more recent medical literature also makes reference to the doctor, for example the manual on chronic pain published in 2003 .

literature

  • Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Born 1828, 1. Teil, Ilmenau, 1830, S. 186 u. 187; (Digital scan)
  • Pfalzbaierischer Hof- und Staatskalender to the year 1802 , Munich, 1802, p. 271 u. 285; (Digital scan 1) , (Digital scan 2)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matriculation entry with the name of the father
  2. ↑ Edmund Spohr: Kayser Werth: 1,300 years saints, emperors, reformers , 1981, p 231, ISBN 3799800050 ; (Cutout scan 1) , (Cutout scan 2)
  3. ^ Kurpfalz-Bayerisches Intellektivenblatt , Munich, No. 1, of January 11, 1786; (Digital scan)
  4. ^ Catalog of the city library to Aachen , Aachen, 1834, p. 337; (Digital scan)
  5. ^ Christian Daniel Beck: General repertory of the latest domestic and foreign literature for 1827 , Volume 3, Leipzig, 1827, p. 229 (Digitalscan)
  6. ^ General medical annals of the nineteenth century , Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig, 1828, column 1149; (Digital scan)
  7. ^ Eve Picard: Handbook of the historical book collections. Hessen MZ and Rhineland-Palatinate AZ , Georg Olms Verlag, ISBN 3487416751 , p. 167, 168 and 215; (Digital scan)
  8. ^ Website of the Palatinate State Library, subsection 2.24, Schmigd library
  9. ^ Digitalscan p. 3 of the book
  10. ↑ Ulrich Tiber Egle: Handbook of chronic pain: Basics, pathogenesis, clinic and therapy from a bio-psycho-social point of view , Schattauer Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3794520459 , p. 126; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Schmigd, Johann Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmiegd, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1828
Place of death Dusseldorf