Johann Christlieb Kemme

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Johann Christian Lieb Kemme (* 10. September 1738 in Halle (Saale) , † 10. October 1815 ibid ) was a German physician . Kemme was a professor of medicine at the University of Halle and librarian at the Marienbibliothek in Halle . He had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1767 .

Life

Kemme was born the son of the pharmacist Johann Friedrich Kemme. His father, who owned the deer pharmacy in Halle, died early. His mother Maria Christine, the daughter of the Pomeranian preacher Georg Christlieb Mayer, initially sent him to relatives in Bernburg , where he also attended school. When he returned to Halle, he went to the Francke Foundations School . 1756 he started at the Halle University medical school , among others, Johann Peter Eberhard , Andreas Elias Büchner and Adam Nietzki . In 1760 he received his doctorate from the medical faculty of the University of Halle with the dissertation Genesis Scirrhorum Simplicium Indultu as a doctor of medicine .

In 1766 Kemme became an associate professor for medicine at the University of Halle, and in 1770 he was given a full professorship there . As early as 1767, under the name EPIMANDES II, he was accepted as a member of the Imperial Leopoldina Natural Research Society. He received the membership diploma from his former professor and friend Andreas Elias Büchner, whom he greatly admired. To supplement his salary, he published numerous medical papers, but also prepared medical reports. In 1778 he was unanimously elected church father of the Marktkirche Our Dear Women in Halle, as the successor to the theologian Johann Friedrich Gruner . The Marienbibliothek, one of the oldest and largest public church libraries, belonged to the church. As a church father, he was also given the task of librarian, which he carried out for 37 years. Kemme was Ephorus the royal free table , and in 1791 he was also given responsibility for the midwifery institute . From 1781 to 1810 he was dean of the medical faculty of the University of Halle several times , an office that he held every six months alternately with Philipp Friedrich Theodor Meckel and Johann Christian Reil . In 1800 he asked for his dismissal as a university professor, but this was rejected in recognition of his services. Some time before that, he stopped lecturing due to illness and limited his work to the administration of the faculty .

Johann Christlieb Kemme died on October 10, 1815, at the age of 77, of a stroke in his hometown Halle. He was buried in Halle's Stadtgottesacker , the grave is in crypt arch 76. His private doctor Johann Friedrich Christian Düffer wrote a necrology about him, which was published in the Hallische Patriotisches Wochenblatt in 1816 . In his will, he made his housekeeper the sole heir . A year after his death, an inventory of the holdings of his extensive private library was created. The book collection, comprising 3,650 volumes, was moved to the Marienbibliothek in 1816, where it is still managed today as a scholarly library that has been preserved.

Publications (selection)

  • Genesis Scirrhorum Simplicium Indultu Gratiosi Medicorum Ordinis In Regia Fridericiana Pro Gradu Doctoris. ( Dissertation ), Halle 1760.
  • De Innocenti Infectione Venerea. Hall 1767.
  • Of the serenity of spirit in some dying. Hall 1774.
  • Doubts and recollections against the doctrine of the doctors on the nutrition of the solid parts. Hall 1778.
  • Directory of the library of Professor Kemme, who died here. Hall 1816. ( digitized )

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SURNAME Kemme, Johann Christlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1815
Place of death Halle (Saale)