Johann Erhard Prieger

Johann Erhard Peter Prieger (born September 17, 1792 in Wiesbaden ; † June 4, 1863 in Kreuznach ) was a German doctor .

He became known through the founding of the first brine bath in Bad Kreuznach and a few years later was appointed fountain and bath doctor as well as the royal Prussian medical council.

Life

He was born on September 17, 1792 as the son of Benjamin Gottlieb Prieger and Kornelia Katharina Pauli in Wiesbaden.

After his childhood he began his medical studies in 1811 in Frankfurt am Main , which he on March 6, 1816 the promotion to Doctor of Medicine graduated. In the following months he worked as a doctor in his native Wiesbaden, until he settled in Bad Kreuznach in March 1817. There he built the first bathing room in the same year after he had recognized the healing power of the brine springs and the medical benefits in them.

On October 31, 1817 he married Maria Philippine Acva (born October 25, 1796 in Kreuznach; † October 27, 1850 ibid), with whom he had eight children, three of which were not older than ten years.

In 1820 he was appointed district doctor and in 1834 court counselor. In the same year he founded Solbäder AG, in which he became a member of the committee two years later and in 1838 a member of the administrative committee. In 1837 he was appointed fountain and bath doctor.

In 1842 Prieger was appointed royal Prussian medical council and from 1837 to 1862 he was Kreuznach's city ​​councilor . There he died a year later on June 8, 1863 at the age of 70.

Prieger memorial in Bad Kreuznach

Awards

• 1840/42 Red Eagle Order IV class or III. Class (Prussia)
• 1840 Royal Belgian Leopold Order
• 1840 August 23 Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit (Knight's Cross)
• 1843 Electoral Hessian Order of Lions
• 1845 Order of Dannebrog
• 1847 House Order of Albrecht the Bear

Works

• Inaurugal treatise on the Hypopium etc. - March 26, 1816 - Würzburg
• Happy extirpation of a 2¾ pound carcinomatous parotid. - 1821
• Description of a happily cured hydrophobia, etc. - 1821
• Kreuznach and its healing springs. - 1827 - Mainz
• Kreuznach and its healing springs containing bromine and iodine. - 1837 - Kreuznach
• Experience about the healing powers of the iodine- and bromine-containing Elisabeth spring in Kreuznach. - 1845 - Mainz
• Comments on the Kreuznach mother liquor containing iodine and bromine. - 1845 - Mainz
• The mineral waters of Kreuznach. - 1846 - London
• Observations pratiques sur les eaux minérales de Kreuznach et particulièrement sur la source d'Elisabeth, remarquable par la quantité de Jode et de Brom, qu'elle contient. - 1847 - Frankfort
• About the iodine and bromine mineral springs and the mother liquor in Kreuznach. - 1851 - Kreuznach
• Kreuznach, sa source jodurée, dite d'Elisabeth et son eau-mère etc. - 1854 - Kreuznach
• Kreuznach, its iodine- and bromine-containing Elisabethquelle and mother liquor etc. - 1857 - Kreuznach

literature

• Family tree of the Prieger family 1792-1892. In memory of the hundredth birthday of Johann Erhard Peter Prieger. OO, no date
• Andrea Fink-Madera: The first civic monument in Kreuznach. The statue for Johann Erhard Peter Prieger, the founder of the spa, was inaugurated 125 years ago. Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter, 1992, No. 5, pp. 3–5
• Richard Walter: Thousands celebrated on his wedding day OeA, September 17, 1992
• Willy Mathern: Privy Councilor Dr. Johann Erhard Peter Prieger, the founder of the spa, for his 175th birthday (born on September 17, 1792, died on June 4, 1863) 150 years of the spa in Bad Kreuznach. A documentation of its history and its holdings 1817-1967, Bad Kreuznach 1968, pp. 199–203.

Web links

Commons : Johann Erhard Prieger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Johann Erhard Prieger in the catalog of the German National Library
• LKP Lexicon Kreuznacher Personalities: Prieger, Johann Erhardt Peter, Dr.