Christian Friedrich Harleß

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Christian Friedrich Harleß (copper engraving by GW Bock, 1817)
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Johann Christian Friedrich Harleß (born July 11, 1773 in Erlangen , † March 11, 1853 in Bonn ) was a German medic.

Life

Christian Friedrich Harleß, son of the humanist Gottlieb Christoph Harleß and his second wife Sophie Henriette Weiß, studied in Erlangen and received an extraordinary professorship in medicine in 1796. From 1801 to 1803 he lived in Italy in order to continue his education under Johann Peter Frank in Pavia , then in 1805 he became a full professor and co-director of the clinical institute in his hometown and in 1818 followed the call of professor of pathology and therapy to Bonn, where he on Died March 11, 1853. 2 sons: the Herford philologist Hermann Harleß (born 1801 from his first marriage) and the Düsseldorf archivist Woldemar Harleß (born 1828 from his second marriage).

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Based on Schelling's natural philosophy , Harleß developed a theory of electricity and an electrophysiological concept as well as a corresponding electropathology.

Honors

In 1796 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1815 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Attempt of a complete history of the brain and nerve theory in antiquity (Erlangen 1801);
  • The diseases of the pancreas (Nuremberg 1812);
  • Textbook of Specific Medicine (Nuremberg 1816);
  • Proposal and request to the medical authorities and doctors of Germany to found and introduce a general German national pharmacopoeia . Kunz, Bamberg 1816 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Handbook of the medical clinic (Leipzig and Koblenz. 1817–26, 3 vols.);
  • De sanguine variisque fluidis animalibus experimenta microscopica . Bonn, 1823 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • The merits of women in natural science, health and medicine, as well as in geography, ethnology and human studies from the oldest to the most recent (Göttingen 1830);
  • All the healing springs and spas in southern and central Europe, western Asia and North Africa (Berlin 1846–48, 2 parts, unfinished).

Some of his smaller writings appeared under the title: Opera minora academica (Leipzig 1815). He also published the Journal of Foreign Medical Literature (with Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland and Schreyer, Nuremberg 1802-10, 10 vol.), The Yearbooks of German Medicine and Surgery (Nuremberg 1813-19) and the Rhenish Yearbooks (1819 ff.) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottlieb Wilhelm August Hermann Harless, pages from his life and to his memory, Joh. Chr. Harleß Bonn 1844
  2. ↑ in NDB / ADB-online http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd116476567.html
  3. ↑ Charlotte Triebel-Schubert: The natural-philosophical conception of an electrophysiology with Johann Christian Friedrich Harless (1773-1853). In: Würzburger medical history reports 6, 1988, pp. 245–266
  4. ^ Johann Christian Friedrich Harless: Indications of a pathological electrology and in particular some preferably electrical diseases. In: Treatises of the physical-medicinischen Societät in Erlangen 1, 1810, pp. 52–126
  5. ^ Member entry by Christian Friedrich Harless at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 26, 2015.
  6. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 103.
personal data
SURNAME Harleß, Christian Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harleß, Johann Christian Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1853
Place of death Bonn