Johann Christian Bruns (Hofmedicus)

Johann Christian Bruns (also: Johann Christian Brauns ; born 1735 in Hoya ; died June 21, 1792 in Hanover ) was a German physician, court obstetrician , court medicus and book collector as well as a prosector and demonstrator of anatomy .

Life

Johann Christian Bruns was born in 1735 in the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg at the time of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover . He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen , where he initially acted as a respondent to an inauguration dissertation written by Johann Georg Röderer in 1760 . In March of the same year he wrote his own dissertation there inauguralis exhibens observationes quasdam anatomicas et chirurgico-medicas ... with the title of Dr. med. he then settled as a doctor in Hanover , where the “D. der Arzneygel. “was soon appointed court medicus.

Bruns also worked from 1763 as “professor and demonstrator at the anatomy chamber in Hanover.” For the institution in Hanover, also known as the surgical school or anatomical college , and founded in the late 18th century, the court medicus collected numerous writings, which later became the medical writings of the royal family Library were added.

One of his writings was a letter sent from Hanover in 1774 to the surgeon, councilor and professor at the Charité in Berlin, Joachim Friedrich Henckel .

Johann Christian Bruns, who also served the Hanoverian court society as court accoucheur , studied and increased the books he had collected on his long trips abroad in the face of his own death - he died of dropsy in Hanover at the age of 58 part of the monastery library of the Loccum monastery bequeathed on the condition that the library "should be free for the constant use of doctors."

After the death of the teacher at the Surgical School in Hanover, on September 10 and 11, 1792, in the house of the consistorial secretary Schädler, some of Brun's remains were auctioned, including amputation, trepanation, accouchier and other surgical instruments as well as skeletons, preparations and minerals.

Fonts (selection)

• Johann Georg Röderer (author), Johann Christian Bruns ( resp .): Decanvs Ordinis Medici In Academia Georgia Avgvsta Io. George. Roederer. D. Dissertationem Inavgvralem ... Ioannis Christiani Brvns D. Mart. MDCCLX Habendam Indicit: Praemissis De Ossivm Vitiis Observationibvs , Gottingae: Ex offincina Schulziana, 1760; Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library
• To the Hochedelgebohrnen Herr, Herr Schumacher, on the news of his marriage to the Most Amiable Maiden, Jungfer Bük Reply letter / from JC Bruns , Trenthorst, printed by F. Scheele, 4th November 1763
• Ioannes Christianus Bruns: Dissertatio inauguralis exhibens observationes quasdam anatomicas et chirurgico-medicas pro gardu doctoratus publice defensa a Johanne Christiano Bruns (Gottingae 1760: Schulz), in: Cum tabulis aeneis , Lugduni Batavorum, 1778, p. 20
• The Leib-Medici Mr. Müller's medical discoveries and as adj. Stadt-Physici Defense of a casus medico legalis considered, by Doct. JC Bruns, Court Medic. Demonstrator. Anat. & Chirurgiæ in Hannover , Hannover (1773)
• Letter from the Stadt-Physici N - l - m to H. to his friend, the Hof-Medicum W - b - r - g. in Z. about the writing of Mr. Hof-Medicus Bruns Demonstrator ... against Mr. Leib-Medicum Müller ... , [Hanover], 1773
• To ... Joachim Friederich Henckel, Professor of Wundarzney Art ... , Hanover: Bey Johann Wilhelm Schmid, 1774
• Catalogvs Librorvm Brvnsianorvm [Catalogus librorum Brunsianorum], Hannoverae, Typis IT Lamminger, Avl. Type. 1799; Digitized via the university library of the Humboldt University in Berlin

literature

• On this very day [21. Jun.] + To Hanover JOH. CHRIST BRUNS, ... , in: Nekrolog: on the year ... containing news from d. Life of Strange Germans who died in this year , Vol. 3/2, Gotha: Perthes, 1794, pp. 229-230

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e f} Johann Georg Meusel : Bruns (Johann Christian) , in ders .: Lexicon of the German writers who died between 1750 and 1800 , Volume 1: A - B , Gerhard Fleischer, Leipzig 1802, p. 630; Digitized via Google books
2. ↑ n.v . : Johann Christian Brauns in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek [undated], last accessed on July 27, 2020
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Brauns (Johann Christian) , in ders .: The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover since the Reformation and still live, compiled from the most credible writers , Volume 1, Schünemann, Bremen 1823, p. 252; Digitized by the State and University Library Bremen
4. ↑ ^{a b} intelligence sheet of the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung of 1792 , number 134 of November 14, 1792, column 1097-1098; johann% 20christian% 20bruns% 22 & f = false digitized from Google books
5. ↑ Proof of the library service center Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) and the association headquarters of the GBV (VZG)
6. ↑ Proof of the Hessian Library Information System (HeBIS)
7. ↑ Monika Estermann, Reinhard Wittmann (Red.): Archive for the history of the book industry , Volume 49, published by the Historical Commission of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels eV, Frankfurt am Main: Buchhandler-Vereinigung GmbH, 1998, p. 248; Preview over google books
8. ^ Heinrich Deichert : History of the medical system in the area of ​​the former Kingdom of Hanover. A contribution to the patriotic cultural history (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , vol. 26), Hanover: Leipzig: Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung und Verlag, 1908, p. 348; limited preview in Google Book search
9. ↑ The Scoreboard. A daily newspaper for justice, the police and all civil trades, as well as for the free mutual entertainment of readers about charitable objects of all kinds , year 1792, volume 2, no. 38 of August 16, 1792, column 306-307; Digitized via Google books