Johann Christian Wilhelm Verpoorten

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Johann Christian Wilhelm Verpoorten , actually Johann Christian Verpoorten (born February 24, 1721 in Coburg , † January 24, 1792 in Neustrelitz ) was a German physician, personal physician and councilor.

Life

Johann Christian (Wilhelm) Verpoorten was a son of Johann Wilhelm Verpoorten (1681–1737), rural physician and ducal body medic in Coburg, and grandson of the general superintendent Wilhelm Verpoorten from Lübeck .

He studied human medicine and was in 1748 at the University of Halle , chaired by Andreas Elias Büchner Dr. med. PhD. In the same year he became the personal physician of Duke Karl zu Mecklenburg (1708–1752), who was apanaged in Mirow . His son, Duke Adolf Friedrich IV , appointed him ducal personal physician and councilor in Neustrelitz. Verpoorten owned a house in Neustrelitz Schlossstrasse around 1760 and around 1780 he is named as one of the two mayors of the flourishing residential town of Neustrelitz. In the autumn of 1766 there was a meeting between Verpoorten and the British travel writer Thomas Nugent , who reported about it in his travelogue Travels through Germany and especially through Mecklenburg . “He (Verpoorten) is of mediocre stature,” writes Nugent, “with a blackish face and serious demeanor. Notwithstanding he is a courtier and, as they say, a favorite of the duke, he still seems a bit stupid, " and the Briton casually mentions Verpoorten's " excellent natural collection, in which there are many rarities. "

Although Verpoorten was not a trained architect, he created designs for lordly buildings in Mecklenburg-Strelitz , for example for the Neustrelitz town church and for various individual buildings in the Hohenzieritz palace ensemble (cavalier houses, jug farms).

He was married to the painter Esther, b. Denner , the daughter of Balthasar Denner . The Hamburger Kunsthalle owns an unmarked “flower piece” from his estate , perhaps a work by Verpoorten's father-in-law.

Verpoorten, who is mentioned around 1780 as one of two mayors of the residential city of Neustrelitz, was a member of the Evangelical-Lutheran court community in Neustrelitz. His grave in the old cemetery was lost when it was cleared and abandoned after World War II.

Fonts

  • De Praecavendis Et Prudenter Tollendis Morborum Recidivis. Diss. Halle 1748 ( digitized , ULB Halle )

literature

  • August Blanck , Axel Wilhelmi : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1901, p. 50 (No. 226)
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10332 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Nugent: Travels through Germany and especially through Mecklenburg. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 1998. [Reprint d. Berlin 1781]. ISBN 3-931185-22-2 . P. 172. - Nothing is known about the later whereabouts of the collections.
  2. ↑ Hamburg, Kunsthalle. Inv no. 664.
  3. ↑ Annalize Wagner: About the cultural history of the 'Old Cemetery' in Neustrelitz (1769-1945). In: The Carolinum. Histor.-lit. Magazine. <1958->. - Göttingen - Jg. 47 (1983) No. 89, pp. 7-38. [here p. 13.].
personal data
SURNAME Verpoorten, Johann Christian Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Verpoorten, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, personal physician and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1792
Place of death Neustrelitz