Johann Daniel Taube

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Johann Daniel Taube (born March 4, 1725 in Celle ; † December 8, 1799 there ) was a German doctor.

family

Johann Daniel Taube was the son of the Celle doctor Christoph Ernst Taube († 1742) and his unknown wife (1689 / 90–1762). His brother Friedrich Wilhelm von Taube was born in 1723, his sister Sophia Eleonora was born in 1716, and his sister Margaretha Johannata three years later. He himself married Anna Christina Dorothea Dunckern (1736 / 37–1789), with whom he had four sons and six daughters.

Life

Taube studied medicine at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate there in 1747 under Albrecht von Haller on "De sanguinis ad cerebrum tendentis indole". med. Then he went back to Celle and lived there for life. From 1751 to 1778 he worked as a city physician, then as an English and Brunswick-Lüneburg court doctor and personal physician. Albrecht Daniel Thaer, recommended by him, took over his post as city physician .

In 1748 Taube co-founded the Masonic Lodge "Augusta", which was one of the first such German lodges. He was also a member of the Agricultural Society in Celle.

Works

In 1782 Taube published the "history of the crawl disease", with which he described ergot poisoning for the first time . In this medical journal he presented the course of the disease and treatment principles with the help of many case reports . He thus developed a solid empirical basis for the causes of the disease that were previously controversial.

In addition to rather minor medical work, Taube dealt with several other specialist areas. As Carl von Linnés' correspondent from 1766 to 1769, he wrote the two volumes "Contributions to the natural history of the Duchy of the cell". In it he presented the landscape of the duchy in detail and, following the systematic devised by Linné, described the fauna and flora of the region and went into the peculiarities of architecture, geography and geology. He treated the tar hollows on the Kuhlenberg and the same in Wietze .

Taube had a rarity cabinet with more than 10,000 exhibits, in which he received people from all over Europe. District administrator Friedrich Ernst von Bülow bought it from him in 1790 and used it as the basis of the school museum of the boarding school of the Lüneburg knighthood. After the knighthood had dissolved, the Natural Science Association Lüneburg took over the majority of the holdings, which it sold in 1937. After the Second World War , the collection of the Lüneburg Johanneum received the remaining minerals, which later went to the Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Peter Kröner:  Taube, Johann Daniel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 798 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Hans-Peter Kröner:  Taube, Johann Daniel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 798 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Hans-Peter Kröner:  Taube, Johann Daniel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 798 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Johann Daniel Taube. The history of Kriebel's disease, especially that which raged in the Zellische areas in 1770 and 1771 . Johann Christian Dietrich, Göttingen 1782 (digitized version)
  5. ^ Hans-Peter Kröner:  Taube, Johann Daniel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 799 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ Johann Daniel Taube. Contributions to the natural history of the Duchy of Zell. JD Schulze, Volume I, Cell 1766 (digitized version) . P. 9: About the types of earth, stones and fossils around cells . P. 25: The tar pits at Wieze . P. 37: The Theer sources at Hänigsen . P. 49: From the salmon catch in Wolthausen . P. 61: The salt works for aspic . P. 77: From the pearl shells in the brooks of the Duchy cell . P. 89: Investigation of the water of a spring that was previously thought to be mineral .
  7. ^ Johann Daniel Taube. Contributions to the natural history of the Duchy of Zell. JD Schulze, Volume II, Cell 1769 (digitized version) . P. 97: Comments on a trip through the heath to Lauenburg . P. 187: From the marl . P. 213: The alum mountain near Langendorff . P. 225: Investigation of various water sources . P. 243: Mixed remarks .
  8. ^ Hans-Peter Kröner:  Taube, Johann Daniel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 799 ( digitized version ).
  9. ^ Hans-Peter Kröner:  Taube, Johann Daniel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 799 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Taube, Johann Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1799
Place of death Celle