Johann Friedrich Glaser (medical doctor)

Johann Friedrich Glaser (born September 3, 1707 in Wasungen , † December 7, 1789 in Suhl ) was a German medic.

Life

Glaser was the youngest son of an executioner and studied at the University of Erfurt , at the University of Altdorf and since October 28, 1729 at the University of Wittenberg . In 1736 he received his doctorate with the dissertation inaug. de Myopia in Harderwijk as a doctor of medicine. He initially ran a practice in his hometown, later in Suhl, where he was appointed as the official physician of the Electorate of Saxony and from 1781 was the ducal Saxon-Gotha 'scher Bergrat .

Glaser had been a member of the Leopoldina since November 8, 1759 and a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt since May 12, 1775 . He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1774. Glaser was primarily concerned with fighting fires after a fire in Suhl in 1753 had reduced the city to ashes. He also wrote some specialist articles in journals.

Selection of works

• Diss. Inaug. de myopia. Harderwyk 1736
• Useful suggestions, preserved by experience, to save houses and movables safely in the event of violent and rapid fires. Dresden and Leipzig 1756, 2nd edition Dresden and Leipzig 1756, 3rd edition. Hildburghausen 1764, 4th edition, Hildburghausen 1772
• Description of his newly invented blood scales and blood measuring devices, with which one can weigh and measure the blood with hand and foot veins, whether it is already running under the water commonly used, so quickly from lot to lot, and very useful, also in other ways by a certain advantage can collect the water secreted alone. With 1 copper plate. Hildburghausen 1758 New edition, under the title: Description of his newly invented blood scale and his blood vessels, with 1 copper, which are usable and very useful not only for doctors and surgeons, but also for all house fathers and house mothers. Hildburghausen 1788 ( online )
• Useful behavior in the case of the typhus epidemic that is now ruling in Germany. Hildburghausen 1758
• Price writing, how to prepare the timber in the buildings to hold large fires. Hildburghausen 1762
• Detailed description of the great fire test, which ended happily, which was made public with his invented fire-deterring wood coatings. Leipzig 1773
• Answering and refutation of various unfounded objections and doubts raised against his invented and in the successfully completed large fire test that was established with it in several small test houses. Leipzig 1774
• Physical treatise of caterpillars of fruit trees that spoil the flowers, also leaves and fruit-eating harmful caterpillars and tried and tested means to keep such caterpillars from the fruit trees and to drive them away. Frankfurt u. Leipzig 1774, 2nd edition Leipzig 1780
• Price writing, how the fire extinguishing stations in the small towns and villages are to be improved. Leipzig 1775
• Physical reasons for movement that make it probable and believe that the Henneberg mountain and trading town of Suhl has hidden a great underground treasure from Steinfalz; together with irrelevant suggestions etc. Leipzig 1776
• Further discussion and clarification of his improved price writing of the improvement of the fire extinguishing stations against Mr. Chamber Assessor JW Heinemann zu Blankenburg. Hildburghausen 1779
• Treatise, based on correct experience, of the deadly nodular disease among cattle and red deer preteen in the woods, how to keep them and how to cure them; and of the non-fatal diseases of the mouth and feet among cattle, how such can easily be cured. With an illum. Copper pl. Leipzig 1780
• A physical and economic treatise on the harmful caterpillars of the fruit trees, and tried and tested means of deterring and driving away such caterpillars from the fruit trees. Leipzig 1780
• Thorough treatise, based on correct experience, on how most of the conflagrations in buildings can be prevented, and those that have nevertheless arisen can be put out sooner and better than before, and prevented from spreading further. Erfurt 1782
• An irrelevant suggestion as to what useful lessons can be given to the youth in the lower schools, how to deal carefully with fire and light and easily inflammable things, so that no conflagrations arise from them. Dessau 1783
• Evidence that and why those in his printed script; Suggestions on how to prevent most conflagrations, etc., and for non-profit use, also suitable means to extinguish the conflagrations quickly and to prevent their further spread, are much more effective and certain than the hitherto usual ones. Schleusingen 1784
• Fire extinguishing test, or detailed description and practical suggestions on how to light a fire is the fastest to erase. Marburg 1786
• Extensive and experience-based treatise and suggestions as to how most of the fires on and in the buildings can be effectively prevented, and how soon and better than what has generally happened hitherto, those which arise or which may be erased and prevented from spreading further . Leipzig. 1788
• Descriptio mineralium praecipuorum, quae in regione urbis Hennebergicae Suhlae reperiuntur… 1773

literature

• Johann Christian Poggendorff: JC Poggendorffs biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences. Verlag Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig, 1863, 1st volume, Sp. 909
• Er - Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . 1. Section Volume 69, p. 28 ( online ).
• Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland: Or, lexicon of the German writers now living. Meyerische Buchhandlung Verlag, 1776, p. 340
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig, 1804, Vol. 4, p. 206

Web links

Commons : Johann Friedrich Glaser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Johann Friedrich Glaser  - Sources and full texts

• Works by and about Johann Friedrich Glaser  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 3; Halle (Saale), 1966
2. ^ Member entry by Johann Friedrich Glaser at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 19, 2015.