Johann Friedrich Metz

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Johann Friedrich Metz (born September 1, 1720 in Tübingen , † July 22, 1782 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German medic . He is best known for a treatment given by young Goethe in 1768/69.

Life

Metz received his doctorate in Halle in 1751 under the dean's office of Michael Alberti , as the title page of his dissertation shows. The title of the Latin dissertation is: Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica Sistens Noli Me Tangere Medicum Sive Morbos, Quos Tangere Non Licet , Hendel, Halle-Magdeburg 1751. He was the son of a baker of the same name and a university caster who was responsible for the Tübingen university grain store . Like his father, he was also an alchemist . He studied medicine in Tübingen and Halle (Saale) and opened a practice in Offenbach am Main . In 1765, Metz received Frankfurt citizenship against the resistance of the Frankfurt medical profession, who tried to prevent him from opening his own medical practice.

Presumably on the recommendation of Susanne von Klettenberg , Metz became one of Goethe's doctors in the winter of 1768/69 and, along with the family doctor of the Goethe family , Johann Philipp Burggrave , was involved in the drug treatment of the throat ulcer from which Goethe suffered after his return from Leipzig. Metz was evidently a capable doctor and a staunch and hermetically - pansophically influenced Pietist and cultivated a friendship with the Swabian theologian and Pietist Friedrich Christoph Oetinger . Metz presumably also administered alchemical medicine to Goethe and also recommended him to “read alchemical-chemical literature”.

The surgical removal of a throat tumor in Goethe 1768/69

The surgical treatment of Goethe's throat tumor in 1768 was not carried out by Metz, but by a Frankfurt surgeon named Crisp. That is more likely to be attributed to the bathers or barbers than to the doctors. Crisp, who had carried out the surgical removal of the throat tumor, belonged, like Metz, to the circle of Frankfurt Pietists.

reception

In the 8th book, Poetry and Truth , the poet prince Goethe let the surgeon Crisp and the doctor Metz go into it, without naming them, but with a characterization that also mentions belonging to the Pietists. However, Goethe had him mentioned by name in his letters and diaries. In contrast to Metz, Crisp was probably only received or remembered through the operation on Goethe in 1768 (especially by Goethe himself). The role of the surgeon also found its way into Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship years .

Varia

In Halle there was a professor of philosophy by the name of Johann Albrecht Friedrich Metz , from whom the Catalogus Professorum Halensis, apart from the fact that he became extraordinary professor of philosophy in Halle on April 22, 1733 and came from the Württemberg region and soon left Halle, was not entitled to anything say knows. Possibly he is related to the doctor Johann Friedrich Metz, which is supported by the similarity of the naming and the region of origin. The doctor Johann Friedrich Metz, on the other hand, cannot possibly be the same person because he was 13 years old when Johann Albrecht Friedrich Metz was appointed Associate Professor of Philosophy in Halle. The father of Johann Friedrich Metz, who had the same name, is also out of the job, as he was a university cadet servant in Tübingen.

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Crisp has its own little article at Biedrzynski.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Metz, Johann Friedrich Leo-bw.de, accessed on June 19, 2020
  2. ^ German digital library
  3. ↑ Wolfram Hauer: Local school development and urban living environment: the school system in Tübingen from its beginnings in the late Middle Ages to 1806 . (= Conternium. Tübingen Contributions to the History of University and Science , Volume 57), Stuttgart 2002, p. 74, note 239 and others. ( Online at Google Books ) He is also referred to as the “ university cadet servant”.
  4. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schrader, Irmtraut Sahmland (ed.): Medical and cultural-historical connections of Pietism: healing art and ethics, arcane traditions, music, literature and language . Göttingen 2006, pp. 228-230. Here p. 229. ( Online at Google Books )
  5. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schrader, Irmtraut Sahmland (ed.): Medical and cultural-historical connections of Pietism: healing art and ethics, arcane traditions, music, literature and language . Göttingen 2006, pp. 228-230. ( Online at Google Books )
  6. ↑ Goethe's Dialogue with Chemistry , Goethe-Institut Czech Republic, accessed on June 19, 2020
  7. ↑ http://woerterbuchnetz.de/GWB/call_wbgui_py_from_form?sigle=GWB&mode=Volltextsuche&hitlist=&patternlist=&lemid=JH02111
  8. ↑ Goethe's letters and diaries: May 23, 1764 - December 30, 1772, edited by Elke Richter, Georg Kurscheidt, Berlin 2008, p. 248.
  9. ^ Wilhelm Meister's years of apprenticeship
  10. ↑ https://www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de/metz-johann-albrecht-friedrich.html
personal data
SURNAME Metz, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1782
Place of death Frankfurt am Main