Johann Friedrich Küttlinger

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Johann Friedrich Küttlinger (born May 17, 1778 in Neustadt an der Aisch , † June 16, 1851 in Erlangen ) was a German physician and botanist.

Life

family

Johann Friedrich Küttlinger was the son of the pastor and vice principal at the grammar school in Neustadt an der Aisch Johann Heinrich Küttlinger (born April 4, 1744 in Erlangen; † December 4, 1811). His brother was Georg Leonhard Küttlinger (December 28, 1775 in Neustadt an der Aisch; † January 22, 1841), who later became a deacon in Schwabach near Nuremberg .

Johann Friedrich Küttlinger married Karolina Louis from Erlangen in 1809. They had two children together:

  • Leonharda Karolina Mathilda (* 1813; † unknown), married to Georg Joseph Aloys Gareis (* 1806; † unknown), royal appellate lawyer;
  • Carl Julius Adelberg Küttlinger (born January 30, 1817 in Erlangen, † February 13, 1868 in Nuremberg), also became a doctor and received his doctorate as Dr. med., after completing his studies, he went on a seven-month trip to Paris and London to deepen his medical knowledge and, on his return, joined his father's practice, he was married to Mathilde von Braun (born June 11, 1822 in Erlangen; † 28 November 1891 in Bayreuth).

School education

He attended the preparatory school there for a short time in Neustadt an der Aisch, then his father was appointed pastor in Neuhof an der Zenn in 1785 ; there he and his brother received private lessons from their father. This trained them so successfully that they were given the school leaving certificate from the high school in Bayreuth after they had passed the exam there.

Education

Together with his brother, he began studying general sciences and medicine at the University of Erlangen in 1794 . There he heard lectures from Johann Heinrich Abicht ( philosophy ), Johann Tobias Mayer ( pure and applied mathematics ), Friedrich Heinrich Loschge (1755–1840) ( physiology , anatomy and pathology ), Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt ( theoretical and practical chemistry , general and special Therapy, Pathology and Physics ), Johann Christian von Schreber ( botany , mineralogy , zoology and bromatology (teaching of the preparation methods of food and luxury foods)), Friedrich von Wendt (special therapy, materia medica and prescription for medicinal products), for whom he also has two Practiced in the clinic for years, as well as with Johann Philipp Julius Rudolph ( surgery and bandage theory).

Further medical training in Berlin

With his dissertation de hydropisdiagnosi, causis et quibusdam illi medendi methodis , he received his doctorate on October 14, 1797, at the age of 19, as a doctor of medicine. To deepen his education, he went to Berlin in 1798 , where he attended lectures given by the doctor Friedrich August Walter (1764–1826) on physiology, obstetrics and ophthalmology, as well as lectures on surgical operations given by Professor Dr. Johann Gottlieb Zenker (1759–1807); at the Collegium medico-chirurgicum he heard from Johann Friedrich Fritze (1735–1807), from the Charité , on the subjects of medical clinic, therapy, fever theory, field diseases and venereology .

After his return from Berlin, the doctor and councilor Johann Friedrich Dörfler (1745–1800) died in Neustadt an der Aisch, whereupon Johann Friedrich Küttlinger decided in 1800 to succeed him and he began his practical career. According to a royal Prussian regulation on qualification for civil service, he went back to Berlin in 1805 to take the prescribed anatomical course with anatomical demonstrations. After completing the course and giving a public lecture on the topic of De situ partium in abdomine, de hepate cum annexis, de vasis antibrachi et manus atque de nervo phrenico in the anatomical theater , he underwent the examination by the examination deputation for employment in the civil service . After its existence, he made a scientific trip to the University of Vienna in the same year .

Further medical training in Vienna

He visited the private clinic of the ophthalmologist Georg Joseph Beer and took private lessons on ophthalmology . He also practiced eye operations on the corpses of the general hospital. With Johann Lukas Boër he visited the obstetric clinic and he visited the botanist Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin . To enrich his observations, he visited the French field hospital, where at the beginning of December 1805 the number of wounded was calculated to be over 6,000, but found their medical treatment very superficial.

In Vienna he also made the acquaintance of the royal Prussian medical advisor Dr. Johann Gottfried Langermann from Bayreuth, who held an embassy position there. With this he undertook the return journey, which led through the middle of the French campaigns.

After returning from Vienna, he continued his work as a licensed general practitioner in Neustadt an der Aisch. Through his work the cowpox vaccination was introduced there and he intensified his work in ophthalmology. Due to his specialist knowledge of ophthalmology, the poet Jean Paul Richter also wrote to him for advice because he was suffering from cataracts and was gradually going blind.

Introduction of the cowpox vaccination in Franconia

After his first return from Berlin in 1800 he had already introduced George Pearson's English work, History of Kuhpox ... , published in 1798 , through a translation into German. For the purpose of introducing the cowpox vaccination, he also met with Dr. Jean de Carro in Vienna in correspondence. In 1801 (the year when Küttlinger had successfully vaccinated the son of the Neustadt headmaster Professor Degen against smallpox) he had gained such a reputation as a vaccinator in Franconia that he also vaccinated the Count Castell family. He had been introduced to the same by Count Pückler, with whom he had come into contact through lessons in classical languages.

His efforts in vaccinating against smallpox were also recognized by the royal Prussian senior college medicum et sanitatis (senior management in medical matters); on February 4, 1806 he was awarded the Vaccination Medal, and on March 3, he was awarded the title of Medical Councilor.

Physician and district court physician

On May 19, 1806 he was employed by a rescript of the Royal Prussian War and Domain Chamber as administrator of the Erlangen District Physics Center. In addition to this position, he was also appointed director of the Erlangen military hospitals in 1808 and 1809 .

After the Prussian provinces of Ansbach and Bayreuth passed to the Crown of Bavaria, he was appointed physicist and court doctor at the Bavarian regional court in Erlangen in 1814 . He carried out this task until his retirement by King Maximilian II on June 30, 1848.

Together with Professor Bernhard Nathanael Gottlob Schreger he practiced ophthalmology, which he continued after the death of Professor Schreger in 1825.

On the occasion of his fiftieth anniversary on October 14, 1847, he received his doctoral degree again.

Botanical activities

In his free time he devoted himself to botany and corresponded with Professor Burkard in Zurich on the alpine flora. In his flora cryptogamica , a plant discovered by Johann Friedrich Küttlinger in the Kosbach forest, Hofrat Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius referred to a type of sponges as Merisma Küttlingeri (also in Germany's cryptogam flora).

Together with the pharmacist Johann Christian Frischmann, he discovered the rare bream Isoetes lacustris at the Bischofsweiher in Erlangen .

In his spare time he wrote smaller papers that were published in journals, but were also used in lectures in the physical-medical society in Erlangen.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Protestant church yearbook for the Kingdom of Bavaria . P. 354, 1812 ( google.de [accessed on February 12, 2019]).
  2. ↑ George Pearson (1751-1828). An inquiry concerning the history of the cowpox, principally with a view to supersede and extinguish the smallpox . J. Johnson, London 1798
  3. ↑ Johann Friedrich Kütt Linger. Georg Pearson's Doctor of Medicine and Member of the Royal Societät der Wissenschaften, doctor at the St. Georg-Spitale, member of the Collegium der Physzte etc. Study on the history of cowpox: in particular on the eradication of childpox . Nuremberg 1800.
  4. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. C. W. Schmidt, Neustadt a. d. Aisch 1950; New edition ibid 1978, ISBN 3-87707-013-2 , p. 322 and more often.
  5. ↑ Ludwig Rabenhorst: Germany's cryptogamous flora, or manual for the determination of the cryptogamic plants in Germany, Switzerland, the Lombard-Venetian Kingdom and Istria: mushrooms . P. 126. E. Kummer, 1844 ( google.de [accessed February 14, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Alphabetical list of resp. Members of the general cameralistic-economic society in Erlangen . S. 5, 1813 ( google.de [accessed on February 14, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Küttlinger, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galen IV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Aisch
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1851
Place of death gain