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Johan (n) Clemens Tode (born June 24, 1736 in Zollenspieker ; † March 16, 1806 ; another year of death, 1805, in Copenhagen ) was a German-Danish doctor, university professor and writer.

Life

Johann Clemens Tode was the son of Elbe and country customs administrator Johann Dietrich Tode († 1744) and his wife Agnese Marie, daughter of the Lauenburg preacher Christian Schlöpke (1663-1719). His siblings are known by name:

After the death of his father, his mother moved with his eight siblings to Hamburg and he attended the Latin St. John's School there .

In 1752 he began training as a surgeon in Tønder with his brother-in-law, the husband of his eldest sister, a regimental surgeon in Schleswig . Later he worked as an army surgeon in Haderslev and Rensburg .

In 1758, through the mediation of his brother-in-law, he became assistant to court surgeon Hans Friedrich Wohlert (1703–1779) in Copenhagen and in 1763 royal travel surgeon; here he made friends with the physician Johann Just von Berger

In 1765 he received a permit to study medicine with a travel grant abroad and studied together with Johann Heinrich Schönheyder (1744–1831) for three years in Leiden in Holland , Edinburgh and London in England and Paris in France . After his return to Copenhagen he finished his studies there and received his doctorate in 1769. med. In the same year he completed his habilitation at the University of Copenhagen , was employed in the Vartov Hospital in 1770, was appointed Court Medic in 1771 and a member of the Collegium Medicum .

From 1771 to 1772 he was the attending physician for the French actors who made guest appearances in Copenhagen; this also corresponded to his great interest in acting. When his colleague, the court doctor Johann Friedrich Struensee , entered into an intimate relationship with Queen Caroline Mathilde and she had a child, whereupon Johann Friedrich Struensee de facto took over government power, which ultimately led to his arrest and beheading, the consequence that in the resulting court revolution, the actors were sent home and the theater association of Johann Clemens Tode was put to an end. He tried this then still maintained by even spectacles wrote; his comedy The Naval Officers from 1782 was then performed for several years in Copenhagen.

In 1774 he was made associate professor and in 1797 full professor at the University of Copenhagen, but suffered a stroke in the same year from which he suffered until his death in 1805. Despite his health, he was elected rector of the University of Copenhagen in 1800 : in 1805 he resigned from his offices at the university.

In 1771 he married Johanne Sophie Schönfeldt from Copenhagen

His tombstone is in the assistance cemetery in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen . His portrait, painted by Jens Juel in 1787 , was included in Gerhard Ludvig Lahde's Samling af fortjente danske Mænds Portraiter .

Writing

Johann Clemens Tode was also active as a philanthropist and poet, who founded several medical disputation societies and translated numerous medical writings. In various newspapers and magazines he published a number of popular articles and articles in the German language from the field of health care, so he wrote medical articles that were intended for both laypeople and professionals. One of his strengths was that he quickly and quickly recorded current problems, for example on June 16, 1795, after the great fire in Copenhagen from June 5 to 6, 1795, he published the first issue of a new magazine on the subject of health advice The occasion of the city fire .

He was also a driving force behind Danish fiction at the time of Romanticism . In 1771 he began to translate Tobias Smollett's novels . His journal genre was based on French models and the general educational ideas of the Age of Enlightenment .

From 1775 to 1786 he edited the medical-surgical library in ten volumes , from 1787 to 1792 the medical annals and from 1793 to 1804 the medical journal .

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literature

Web links

Commons : Johan Clemens Tode  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Friedrich Johannsen: Historical-Biographical Messages from older and newer sacred song writers: whose songs are in the Schleswig-Holstein hymn book, both old and new . P. 269. Röhß, 1802 ( google.de [accessed on May 31, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Helmut Riege, Rainer Schmidt: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock: Briefe 1753-1758 . S. 325. Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-084838-0 ( google.de [accessed May 30, 2019]).
  3. ^ Johan Clemens death. gravsted.dk, accessed May 30, 2019 .
  4. ^ Medicinischer Argos: Zeitschr. for criticism and Anti-criticism on d. Areas d. Medicine . S. 204. Gebauer, 1839 ( google.de [accessed on May 30, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Death, Johann Clemens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tode, Johannes Clemens; Death, Joannes Clemens; JCT; Toele, Joh. Clemens; Odds den Yngre, ... van; Deaths, JC; Deaths, Johan Clemens; Death, Johann Klemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Danish doctor and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Zollenspieker
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1806
Place of death Copenhagen