Johann Christian Stark the Younger

Johann Christian Stark the Younger too: Starck (born October 28, 1769 in Kleinkromsdorf , † December 24, 1837 in Jena ) was a German physician, Privy Councilor, personal physician and university professor in Jena.

Life

Johann Christian was the son of the farmer Johann Andreas Stark. He completed his school education in Weimar and at the grammar school there. On December 22nd, 1829 he enrolled at the University of Jena , where he was supported by his uncle Johann Christian Stark the Elder and completed a degree in medical science. To this end, he initially attended studies at the Philosophical Faculty. Here he followed, among other things, the lectures of Carl Leonhard Reinhold on philosophy, of Johann Heinrich Voigt on mathematics, as well as the natural sciences with August Batsch and Friedrich August Göttling . His uncle, Ernst Anton Nicolai , Christian Gottfried Gruner and Justus Christian Loder became his formative teachers at the medical faculty .

After he had defended his inaugural de hydrocele on August 17, 1793 , he received his doctorate in medicine. Soon after, he started giving lectures. He then embarked on a journey that took him to various German locations, where he made acquaintance with different doctors of his time. Returned to Jena, he completed his habilitation on March 17, 1796 and was appointed associate professor of medicine that same year. In 1804 he was appointed to the council of Sachsen-Weimar , in 1805 he was given a full professor of surgery and became an associate member of the medical faculty. After the battle of Jena and Auerstedt , he was entrusted with treating the wounded. As a result of the numerous treatments and operations, his fingers finally became lame. Nevertheless, he recovered. In 1809 he was appointed Hofrat von Sachsen-Weimar, in 1811 he took over the full professorship of theoretical medicine and botany, in connection with surgery and obstetrics.

So he became director of the maternity hospital in Jena. In 1812 he was appointed privy councilor and personal physician to the ducal house of Saxony Weimar. When Napoleon Bonaparte decided to destroy the city of Jena due to the resistance of the Jena student body, the representatives of the Jena University of Applied Sciences sent a delegation on April 28, 1813, to the Weimar Castle in his residence at the time . This group included Stark, Franz Joseph Konstantin Schömann and Heinrich Karl Eichstädt . This delegation was able to convince Bonaparte to abandon his plan. In the winter semester of 1817, Stark was elected rector of the Alma Mater , he became a directing member of the state directorate as a senior medical authority, also director of the Jena rural hospital, the insane asylum, the outpatient clinic and since 1829 he was also the city and official physician in Jena. Due to his extensive commitment, he also received honorable recognitions.

He received the Grand Ducal White Falcon Order in 1816 and thus became a Knight of the Order of the White Falcon. In the same year he was appointed Privy Councilor of Saxony-Weimar. In 1818 he received the Imperial Russian Order of St. Vladimir and in 1835 the Ducal Saxon Ernestine House Order . But Stark was not only recognized by potentates. He was also welcome in the scientific world of his time. He became a member of learned societies in Zurich, Bern, Erlangen, the mineralogical society in Jena and in 1813 the Leopoldina. He was a member of the Weimar Masonic Lodge "Anna Amalia zu den 3 Rosen".

Stark died in 1837 of a heart attack in his sleep.

Fonts (selection)

• Diss. Inaug de Hydrocele. Jena 1793
• Diss. Exhibens quendam de hernia vaginali et strictura uteri observatione illustrata. Jena 1796 ( online )
• Instructions for surgical dressings. Berlin 1802, Berlin 1829, Jena 1830, Stuttgart 1832 (1st volume online ; 2nd volume online )
• Commentatio med. - surgeon. de cancro labii inferioris observationibus illustrato. Per loco. Jena 1812 ( online )
• Deanship programs:
  • Progr. De graviditate extrauterna cum uterina conjuncta, observationie illustrata. Part. I. Jena 1822 (Deanery program for the doctorate of Wilhelm Moritz Stark (Weimar), online )
  • Progr. De graviditate extrauterna cum uterina conjuncta, observationie illustrata. Part. II. Jena 1822 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Carl Moritz Fuhrmann and Carl August Sonntag, online )
  • Progr. De graviditate extrauterna cum uterina conjuncta, observationie illustrata. Part. III. Jena 1824 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Dietsch (* 1798) and Wilhelm Friedrich Scharf, online )
  • Progr. De graviditate extrauterna cum uterina conjuncta, observationie illustrata. Part. IV. Jena 1825 (Deanery program for the doctorate of Friedrich Erdmann Schilbach (* 1800-) and Ludwig Christian Heinrich Huschky (* 1794), online )
  • Progr. De graviditate extrauterna cum uterina conjuncta, observationie illustrata. Part. V. Jena 1825 (Deanery program for the doctorate of Johann Ehrenfried Moritz Müller and August Wilhelm Ritter, online )
  • Progr. De graviditate extrauterna cum uterina conjuncta, observationie illustrata. Part. VI. Jena 1825 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Johann Heinrich Labes and Carl Gottlob Wilhelm Heinecke, online )
  • Progr. De graviditate extrauterna cum uterina conjuncta, observationie illustrata. Part. VII. Jena 1825 (Dean's office program for the doctorate of Johann Heinrich Ludwig Fröhlich (* 1800) and Christian Friedrich Sperber (1799–1841), online )
  • Progr. Historia morbi ossium faciei memoratu digni cum nonnullis adnotationibus de istius natura et indole. Jena 1826 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Johann Ferdinand Gustav Schütz, Christian Friedrich Sperber (1799–1841) and Gustav Adolph Pörsch (* 1802), online )
  • Progr. Historiae morbi ossium faciei memoratu digni cum nonnullis adnotationibus in Spinam ventosam et Exostosin. Continuation great. Jena 1827 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Christian Friedrich Göring, Godehard Wilhelm Schloß (* 1798) and Moritz Junkelmann, online )
  • Progr. Analecta medica ex Veterum scriptoribus non medicis. Particula I. Jena 1827 (Dean's office program for the doctorate of Friedrich Wilhelm Klickermann, online )
  • Progr. Historiae morbi ossium faciei memoratu digni cum nonnullis adnotationibus in Spinam ventosam et Exostosin Continuatio secunda. Jena 1828 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Robert Knauer (* 1801), Carl Wilhelm Kämpfer and Ignatz von Niklewicz (* 1799), online )
  • Progr. Analecta medica ex Veterum scriptoribus non medicis. Particulae I. Constit. III. Jena 1828 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Heinrich August Syrbius (Frankenhausen) and Christian Wilhelm Heinrich (Gotha), online )
  • Progr. Historiae morbi ossium faciei memoratu dignae cum nonnullis adnotationibus in Spinam ventosam et Exostosin Continuatio tertia. Jena 1829 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Friedrich Robert Hempel (* 1805) and Edmund Emil Eisenschmidt (* 1803))
  • Progr. Analecta medica ex Veterum scriptoribus non medicis. Particulae I. Jena 1828 (Deanery program for the doctorate of Wilhelm August Lotze and August Madelung, online )
  • Progr. Historiae morbi ossium faciei memoratu dignae cum nonnullis adnotationibus in Spinam ventosam et Exostosin Continuatio. quarta. Jena 1829 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Carl Wille (* 1803 Altenburg) and Guido Knauer * Ichtershausen-Gotha)
• Obstetrics textbook for teaching midwives. Jena 1837 ( online )

literature

• Friedrich August Schmidt: New necrology of the Germans. Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar, 1839, 15th year, (1837), 2nd part, p. 1089 ( online )
• Johannes Günther: Life sketches of the professors at the University of Jena, since 1558–1858. Friedrich Maucke, Jena, 1858, p. 136 ( online )
• Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated nations. Copenhagen, 1834, vol. 18, p. 313 ( online )
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or lexicon of the now living German writers. Meyer, Lemgo, 5th ed. 1803, vol. 10, p. 703 ( online ); 1811, Vol. 15, p. 524 ( online ); 1825. Vol. 20, SS 581 ( online )
• Georg Gottlieb Güldenapfel : Literary Museum for the Grand Ducal. herzogl. Saxon country. JG Schreiber, Jena, 1816, p. 142 ( online )
• Obituary. In: Intelligence Journal of the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung. December 1837, col. 314 (supplementary sheets, online )
• Heinrich Karl Abraham Eichstädt : Annales Academiae Jenensis. Kröcker, Jena, 1823, p. 27 ( online )
• Heinrich Karl Abraham Eichstädt: Memoriam Ioannis Christiani Starkii. Jena 1838 ( online )
• Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists: a biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the forerunners to the middle of the 20th century. KG Saur, Munich, 1996, vol. 1, p. 1399
• August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Verlag Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 1887, Vol. 5, p. 511, ( online )
• Franz von Winckel:  Stark, Johann Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 491.

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Johann Christian Stark