Johann Bernhard Wilbrand

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Johann Bernhard Wilbrand

Johann Bernhard Wilbrand (born March 8, 1779 in Clarholz (near Herzebrock), † May 9, 1846 in Gießen ) was a German romantic physician , physiologist and natural philosopher .

Life

Wilbrand studied from 1801 to 1805 the theoretical subjects of medicine in Münster and the practical subjects in Würzburg and Bamberg . From 1809 he was professor of comparative anatomy, physiology and natural history and from 1817 director of the botanical garden in Giessen .

He was an important representative of Schelling's natural philosophical medicine , who often got into controversial disputes with physicians who were more strictly scientifically oriented.

His work concerned respiratory and circulatory physiology. He also did research on comparative anatomy, botany and zoology. On November 28, 1818 he became a member (matriculation no. 1122) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Arcturus .

In the gallery rooms of the Samson house in his birthplace Herzebrock-Clarholz , he is remembered in the “Wilbrand room”.

Trivia

Wilbrand was one of the lecturers of Georg Büchner at the University of Giessen from 1833 and later served him as a template for the unscrupulous doctor in the dramatic fragment Woyzeck .

Fonts

  • Representation of the entire organization . 1809
  • About the origin and meaning of movement on earth . 1813
  • Human physiology . 1815
  • Paintings of organic nature in their distribution on earth . 1821 (with FAM von Ritgen )
  • Explanations of the doctrine of the cycle . 1826
  • Overview of the animal kingdom according to natural gradations and families . 1828
  • General Physiology . 1833
  • Handbook of Botany . 1837
  • Handbook of Comparative Anatomy . 1838

literature

  • Wilhelm Hess :  Wilbrand, Johann Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 520 f.
  • Axel H. Murken : Johann Bernhard Wilbrand (1779-1846), a natural scientist of romantic period and his relation with JW von Goethe . In: Med .monthsschr. 1970 Apr; 24 (4): pp. 165-70.
  • Axel H. Murken: Johann Bernhard Wilbrand, a Clarholz natural scientist of romanticism . In: Clarholz and Lette in past and present 1133–1983. Edited by the local history associations Clarholz and Lette. Clarholz and Lette 1983. pp. 804-812.
  • Axel H. Murken: The life's work of Johann Bernhard Wilbrands (1779–1846). A Westphalian physician and naturalist of the German Romantic era . In: Clarholtensis Ecclesia. Edited by Johannes Meier. Paderborn 1983. (Studies and sources on Westphalian history; Vol. 21). Pp. 311-321.
  • Christian Maaß: Johann Bernhard Wilbrand (1779–1846): Outstanding representative of the romantic theory of nature in Giessen . In: Works on the history of medicine in Giessen. Volume 19. Diss. Med. Casting 1994
  • 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. 248 digitized
  • Christian Probst : Johann Bernhard Wilbrand (1779–1846) and the physiology of romanticism. In: Sudhoff's archive. Volume 50, 1966, pp. 157-178.
  • Manfred Wenzel: Wilbrand, Johann Bernhard. 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. 1495 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to some sources May 6th.
  2. ^ Member entry by Johann Bernhard Wilbrand at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Wilbrand, Johann Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, physiologist and natural philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Clarholz
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1846
Place of death to water