Johann Georg Hoffinger

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Johann Georg Hoffinger (born July 9, 1756 in Kronstadt , † 1792 in Vienna ) was a Transylvanian doctor and member of the " Leopoldina ".

Life

Johann Georg Hoffinger was the son of the doctor Johann Michael Hoffinger , who himself died of the plague in Kronstadt in 1756 while fighting the plague . His mother was Johanna Hoffinger, the daughter of the Reich Knight von Füllenbaum. Johann Georg Hoffinger lost his father when he was just 14 days old. Johann Georg Hoffinger studied medicine in Vienna. Here he received his doctorate in medicine in 1780 with a thesis "de volatica". He then became a mountain physician in Kleinschlatten and then a camera physician in the Banat . From 1783 he worked as a camera physician in the Hungarian town of Schemnitz . In 1785 he introduced the Bouquoy Poor Institute for the benefit of the miners there. He studied the illnesses of workers, the cases of illness caused by coal and steel work, and dealt primarily with a cachexia among workers that had hitherto been considered incurable.

Under the number 911 he was elected in 1790 under the surname PHILOMUS IV. As a member of the "Leopoldina".

He was married to Katharina Edle von Hölzl, daughter of the k k. Councilor and Cabinet Secretary of Empress Maria Theresa . Johann Georg Hoffinger died in Vienna in 1792.

Works

  • Dissertatio inauguralis medico – practica de volatica sau erysepelate erratico , Vienna, type. Matthias Andreas Schmidt, Universitatis Typographus 1780, 37 pages
  • Letter to Mr. JG Wulstein about the use of tobacco (Schemnitz 1790)
  • Letters on the influence of the quenching of gold and silver ores on the health of workers (Vienna 1790)
  • Mixed medical writings , vol. 1 (Vienna 1791)

literature

  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 237 digitized
  • Joseph Trausch: Writer's Lexicon of the Transylvanian Germans , Volume II, Kronstadt 1871, p. 183.
  • Renée Gicklhorn: Dr. med. Johann Georg von Hoffinger (1756–1792) , in: Österreichische Apothekerzeitung 1963, vol. 17, p. 64.
  • Arnold Huttmann : Medicine in old Transylvania , Hermannstadt / Sibiu 2000, p. 304 + 305.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Johann Georg Hoffinger at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 21, 2017.
  2. ↑ Biographical Lexicon of the Kaiserthums Oesterreich Hoffinger, Johann Georg
  3. ↑ Arnold Huttmann : Kronstadt medical-pharmaceutical Bibliography 1530-1930 , Publications of the South East Germans Kulturwerk Munich (Ed Heinz Heltmann and Robert Offner.), Series B, 2000, p 46 + 47.

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffinger, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transylvanian doctor and member of the "Leopoldina"
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronstadt
DATE OF DEATH 1792
Place of death Vienna