Johann Christoph Sommer

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Poor hospital in Braunschweig, Wendentor, 1780, copper engraving by Anton August Beck

Johann Christoph Sommer (born September 8, 1741 in Northeim , † February 22, 1802 in Braunschweig ) was a German doctor , surgeon, obstetrician, councilor and professor of anatomy at the Anatomical-Surgical Institute in Braunschweig.

Life

Studied in Göttingen

The son of a Northeim surgeon studied medicine at the University of Göttingen for six years . There he worked at the anatomical theater and in the maternity clinic. In 1765, Sommer settled in Einbeck as a doctor of general medicine .

Activity in Braunschweig

In December 1766 he received a call from Duke Charles I to the Brunswick Collegium Anatomico-Chirurgicum . He took over the chair of obstetrics from Carl Gottlieb Wagler and, a short time later, that of surgery. He gave lectures on Materia chirurgica according to Plenck . In the Accouchierhaus , which was newly opened in 1767 , he operated clinical obstetrics and in 1768 published his observations and comments on the afterbirth, which was left behind in the uterus and enclosed in a sack, with three case reports. On September 12, 1767, Sommer was elected a member (registration number 696) of the Leopoldina with the nickname Sostratus IV . In 1777 he and his colleague Wagler performed a caesarean section on a rachitic twin mother , who only survived this procedure for a few days, as can be seen in Sommer's description published in 1788. The deceased was added to the pathological-anatomical collection as a specimen. Sommer turned down a call to Jena to meet his obligations to take over the surgical department of the emerging poor hospital . This was opened in 1780, which fundamentally changed the status of the Accouchierhaus. The maternity hospital had to cede most of its premises to the poor hospital and lost its independence. Sommer was appointed court advisor and personal physician to Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand , who had ruled independently since 1780 . In January 1781 he was appointed assessor of the senior medical college, which made him responsible for the examinations of barber and bath surgeons.

In 1799 there was a difference of opinion with the young professor at the Anatomical and Surgical Institute Karl Himly about the treatment of a patient at the hospital for the poor who was suffering from breast cancer. The dispute was finally decided by the Duke in favor of his personal physician, Sommer.

Summer's large circle of friends included humanities scholars and physicians. In addition to Eschenburg , these included Lessing , for whom he worked as a family doctor when he was in Braunschweig. After Lessing's death in Braunschweig, Sommer autopsied his body in 1781. Summer was interested in many things and loved Greek and Latin classics as well as French and Italian literature. He died of typhus in 1802. Braunschweig's most important surgeon of the 19th century, Karl Uhde, called him the most learned and most qualified professor at the Collegium Anatomico-Chirurgicum .

Fonts

literature

  • Karl-Rudolf Döhnel: The anatomical-surgical institute in Braunschweig 1750–1869 (= Braunschweiger work pieces. Volume 19). Orphanage printing and publishing house, Braunschweig 1957, ( publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de ).
  • Peter Glogner, Annette Boldt-Stülzebach (Ed.): The hospitals in Braunschweig through the ages . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2017, ISBN 978-3-944939-27-8 , p. 39.
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 227 digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Jacob Hartenkeil : Medicinisch-chirurgische Zeitung. Volume 1, Salzburg 1802, p. 384 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ^ Member entry by Johann Christoph Sommer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Schlumbohm , Claudia Wiesemann (Ed.): The emergence of the maternity hospital in Germany 1751-1850. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-711-X , p. 140.
  4. ^ Karl-Rudolf Döhnel: The Anatomical-Surgical Institute in Braunschweig (= Braunschweiger work pieces. Volume 19). Braunschweig 1957, p. 38 ( publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de PDF, p. 48).
personal data
SURNAME Summer, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Northeim
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1802
Place of death Braunschweig