Johann Dietz (Feldscher)

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Johann Dietz (born December 18, 1665 in Halle (Saale) ; † March 7, 1738 ibid) was a German barber and field sergeant . In his memoirs, published in 1915, he describes bourgeois life in pre-Frederician Prussia.

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Life

Not interested in his father's rope craft, Dietz began an apprenticeship as a barber in Halle from 1681. After the journeyman's examination, he went to Berlin in October 1684 . After 21 months he joined the army , which the Great Elector sent with 12,000 soldiers to the Great Turkish War . During the siege of Ofen (1684/1686) he was at war for the first time. Back in Berlin, Dietz barbed with the electoral guards . He looked after the hospital and the spa barracks .

Hamburg, Holstein, Halle

When a job in Magdeburg had failed, Dietz moved to Hamburg via Braunschweig , Celle and Lüneburg . At first he was employed by the council barber. He entered the service of a Danish regiment in Itzehoe and Krempe . After saying goodbye in Copenhagen , he returned to Hamburg. In Vorsetzen , he was hired by Dutch captains for the Greenland voyage . In his memoirs, he describes whaling in the Arctic Ocean . On the second voyage a year later, the ship froze at a great latitude . Released after a four-week lull , it hit an iceberg in sudden fog . The ship and crew were saved. After being repaired in a Norwegian port, the ship got caught in a storm and broke its mast . The trip in Hamburg ended with a new mast.

Because of his "science" Dietz was sent to many patients by the council barber . The Feldscher of the Nordic Dragoon Regiment brought Dietz to Uetersen . The Elbmarschen country doctor found quarters with a couple of farmers in Pinneberg . A grateful general took him to Hamburg. Despite the good life, he returned to his parents. His father had bought him a barber shop in Halle; but the guild would not tolerate a stranger. A job at the court of Sachsen-Merseburg was thwarted by the court barber. Dietz went to Leipzig and held collegia chirurgica . After an interlude in Breslau , he traveled to Berlin on the Oder . As "Herr Dokter" he earned a lot of money there. The valet of the master of the Order of St. John brought him to Sonnenburg . In Karl Philipp von Brandenburg-Schwedt , Dietz found an advocate at the court in Cölln .

When the Friedrichs University was founded in the same year and Halle flourished, Dietz had a good living; The hatred and envy of the Halle barbers, however , resulted in decades of intrigue , slander and litigation . Friedrich Wilhelm I , who was also Duke of Magdeburg , confirmed Dietz's position on March 12, 1714. When he died, the Halle Barbers' Guild wanted to revoke Dietz's position as court barber. In the feudal chancellery , the privy councilor Christoph Katsch and his brother stood against Dietz; but the Oberhofmarschall Freiherr Marquard Ludwig von Printzen defied them and confirmed Dietz. Even the fight for him seniority won entitled foreman place Dietz.

Family life

On December 3, 1694, Dietz married his colleague widow Elisabeth Watzlauen with three "small, uneducated children". Two died. Dietz himself gave birth to his wife from the stillbirth of his own son. The daughter died at the age of three. Dietz won all seven trials against the greedy wife and envious colleagues. Three divorce suits at the consistory ended "amicably". Transferred by his lawyer , Dietz had to represent his case before the commissioners Heinrich Bodinus , Johann Gottlieb Heineccius and councilor Johann Adolph Matthesius . He didn't want to be divorced. The consistory in Magdeburg ruled on a year-long separation of table and bed. The second claim for maintenance was dismissed. After eighteen weeks, the couple moved back together. The sick Elisabeth Dietz did her husband apologized and died in August 1726 at the age of 72 years.

On June 5, 1727, he married the rope daughter Maria Magdalena Müller , who was widowed at the age of 25 . She brought a five-year-old son into the marriage and gave the 64-year-old Dietz four children, the son Johann Carl Anton (1729) and the daughters Johanna Magdalena (1731), Christiana Dorothea (1734) and Tabea Friederika (1737), who were her father hardly experienced.

Works

  • Surgeon among whalers , emphasis. Lübeck 1979
  • My résumé , reprint. Munich 1966

literature

  • Master Johann Dietz the Great Elector Feldscher and royal barber. According to the old manuscript in the Royal Library in Berlin, it was first printed by Dr. Ernst Consentius . Wilhelm Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen near Munich [1915] - Life documents of past centuries, 11: Master Johann Dietz tells his life ( digitized version ).
  • Rüdiger Döhler : From barber to surgeon - Johann Dietz. A baroque bourgeois life . Chirurgische Allgemeine , Volume 14, Issue 10 (2013), pp. 617–622.
  • Johann W. Ludwig founder: history of surgery, from primeval times to the beginning of the eighteenth century . Trewendt et Granier, Breslau 1859 ( digitized version )
  • Gunter Mann:  Dietz, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 707 f. ( Digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b documents in the appendix to the Consentius edition (1915)
personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German barber, field scorer and Greenland driver
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1738
Place of death Halle (Saale)