Johann Christian Ehrmann
Johann Christian Ehrmann (born April 29, 1749 in Strasbourg ; † August 31, 1827 in Speyer ) was a German physician and active as an author both in the medical field and as a satirist .
Life
Johann Christian Ehrmann was the son of the medical professor of the same name in Strasbourg and studied medicine himself at the University of Basel , where he received his doctorate in 1772. med. received his doctorate. From 1779 he worked as a general practitioner in Frankfurt am Main , from 1796 as a garrison doctor and from 1804 to 1817 epidemic doctor at the Rochusspital , from 1808 as a medical advisor . He retired from 1821 in Speyer. His successor at Rochusspital was Georg Kloß , who had already been included as his adjunct in 1816.
Ehrmann became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1780 . Since the time of Strasbourg he had dealt with Goethe , who also took part in Ehrmann's teaching events at the hospital beds of the Strasbourg clinic, and in 1809 founded the satirical order of the crazy court councilors together with Friedrich Christian Matthiä . In 1784 he was also accepted into the Frankfurt Freemason Lodge Zur Einigkeit .
As an opponent of vaccination , Ehrmann sharply criticized the vaccination against smallpox introduced by Edward Jenner .
Works
- Under the "borrowed" pseudonym " Jean Paul ":
- The book Faith, Love, Hope. Or the forced emigration of the chief forester Joseph Wolf with his wife and nine children in 1807. Frankfurt, Andreean Buchhandlung, 1809. 1st Ed.
- 1810 as a continuation: second book Faith, Love, Hope.
- Scientific under his name:
- Writings on intestinal gout, mouth locks and the steam of horses (1778, 1779)
- Psychological fragments on macrobiotics. 1794.
- Secret instruction for surgeons in the case of corpses, opening corpses, deaths etc. 1799.
- Judaism in the Maurerey, a warning to all German lodges , 1816
literature
- Kurt Baumann: Johann Christian Ehrmann. A strange Goethe friend. In: Die Rheinpfalz (Speyer edition) 11, 1955, No. 86 of April 14, 1955.
- Emil Rödiger: Ehrmann, Johann Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 292.
- Voelcker: Johann Christian Ehrmann from Strasbourg (1749–1827), the founder of the order of crazy court councilors , in: Elsaß-LothrJb 7, 1928, pp. 88–105
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Christian Ehrmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Nager: The healing poet. Goethe and medicine. Artemis, Zurich / Munich 1990; 4th edition ibid 1992, ISBN 3-7608-1043-8 , p. 172 f. and 190 f.
- ↑ Johann Christian Ehrmann: About the cow poking swindle on the occasion of the compulsory defense of Dr. Ehrmann against the brutal vaccination masters the Dr. and Hofrath Sömmering and Dr. Teaching . Andreean Buchh., Frankfurt am Main 1801 ( uni-frankfurt.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ehrmann, Johann Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic, author and satirist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1749 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1827 |
| Place of death | Speyer |