Johann Carl Heffter
Johann Carl Heffter (born September 25, 1722 in Zittau ; † September 25, 1786 there ) was a German doctor and naturalist.
Heffter was a son of the Zittau citizen and soap boiler , Johann Heinrich Heffter (1693-1739). He received his doctorate from the University of Erfurt in 1745 , became a city physician in Zittau in 1759 and also worked as a doctor at the St. Marienthal monastery . On November 22nd, 1746, he married Johanna Carolina Wentzel, daughter of Johann Gottlieb Wen (t) zel (first official director of the Seidenberg civil registry, city counsel in Zittau from 1748) and was the father of 9 children. Due to his success as a doctor, he was soon accepted into several scientific societies. He founded the learned society in Zittau and was its head for years. In Zittau he also set up a natural history cabinet based on the Pietist model . He died on his 64th birthday and left behind an important library, which he laboriously built a second time after his first collection of books and manuscripts was destroyed in the Zittau fire in the Seven Years' War in 1757. His books went to today's Christian-Weise-Bibliothek . From 1756 he was a member of the Leopoldina .
Works (selection)
- About the wine adulterations and their samples. In: The Zittauische Gesellschaft continued efforts from the realm of the sciences , Zittau 1755, pp. 300–341.
literature
- Astrid Scholz: Heffter (stapler), Johann (Johan) Carl (Karl) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- Genealogical tables about Zittau families, Ms., 1893, Vol. 5, p. 454
Individual evidence
- ↑ August Hirsch (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all Zeien and Völker. 5 volumes, 2nd edition Berlin and Vienna 1929–1935, volume 3, p. 118.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heffter, Johann Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1722 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zittau |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1786 |
| Place of death | Zittau |