Johann Christoph Jäger

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Johann Christoph Jäger (also Jaeger ; born March 1, 1740 in Nuremberg ; † 1816 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German surgeon .

Life

Jäger was born as the son of the city and building authority surgeon for the city of Nuremberg. He initially received lessons from private tutors and then became a student at the Nuremberg Holy Spirit Latin School. He continued to receive private lessons. Although Jäger actually wanted to study theology, his father urged him to train as a surgeon. His education began in 1753, more intensive after he left school in 1754. In addition to his father, his first training was provided by the doctors Gegel, Philipp Ludwig Wittwer and Schulze, where he attended lectures and took part in demonstrations. He was also able to supplement his studies by reading extensive surgical literature.

Jäger came to Augsburg to see the city doctor in 1759 . There he got the opportunity to listen to Johann Andreas Deisch. After studying and practicing in Frankfurt am Main with a surgeon Nordmann and his assistant Johann Gottlieb Grasemann (* around 1742), father of Christian Heinrich Grasemann , and at the Frankfurt Jewish Hospital, he was in Bremen in 1762 and 1763 . There he was at the English Hospital and at the Neustädter Hospital in theoretical and practical training. From 1764 to 1766 he worked in Hamburg and was engaged as a ship surgeon on trips to Greenland and Davisstrasse .

Jäger finally came to Frankfurt am Main in 1766. There he passed his surgical exam under the chairmanship of Johann Christian Senckenberg . He was a master of surgery and subsequently taught surgery. In Frankfurt he became active as a writer and finally became a sworn and garrison surgeon, who finally died in 1816.

Works (selection)

  • Mixed surgical cases for aspiring practitioners of the art of wound medicine , 4 volumes, Jäger, Frankfurt am Main 1788–1791 (Volume 1 as: Fifty surgical-practical cases for aspiring surgeons ).
  • Outline of the Wundarzney art in the ancient times of the Romans. Or A. Cornel. Celsus Seventh and Eighth Books of the Arts of Arts. Translated from Latin and annotated , Gruner, Frankfurt am Main 1789.
  • Contributions to the explanation of the causes and the healing methods of the limb sponge according to own experiences. , Frankfurt am Main 1789.
  • Contributions to war medicine science , 3 volumes, Jäger, Frankfurt am Main, 1794–1796.

literature

  • XXXVI. Hunter (Johann Christoph) . In: News of the life and writings of now living German doctors, surgeons, veterinarians, pharmacists and natural scientists , 1st volume, Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1799, pp. 246-255.
  • Hunter, (Johann Christoph) . In: Georg Andreas Will : Nürnberger Gelehrten-Lexikon . 6th band = 2nd Supplementary volume, p. 160 f.
  • Hunter, Joh. Christoph . In: Reales Staats- und Zeitungs-Lexicon , Volume 2, Gleditsch, Leipzig 1825, p. 282.
  • Ernst Gurlt :  Jaeger, Johann Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 651-653.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl von Hecker :  Deisch, Johann Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 34.
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Johann Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaeger, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 1816
Place of death Frankfurt am Main