Johann Georg Kulmus

Johann Georg Kulmus (* 1680 in Breslau ; † November 6, 1731 in Danzig ) was a German doctor in Danzig.

Life

Kulmus was the 9 years older brother of Johann Adam Kulmus . He attended Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium and studied medicine at the University of Leipzig , the Friedrichs University in Halle and the University of Leiden . He graduated in 1702 and was in 1703 in Halle with a thesis on the interpretation of dreams to Dr. med. PhD. He moved to Danzig in 1741 and earned his living as a general practitioner. He married Regina Konkordia Tessin, the daughter of a Danzig brewer and aldermen . The marriage resulted in the son Johann Ernst Kulmus, who also became a doctor. For his part, in high regard, Johann Georg Kulmus was a teacher at the Academic Gymnasium Danzig . As Stadtphysikus and court physician, he was of Polish King August II. The personal physician appointed. Like his younger brother, he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . The family of doctors he founded lasted for three generations.

Luise

After the death of his wife, he married Katharina Dorothea Schwenk, the daughter of Nathaniel Schwenk, a wealthy merchant from an Augsburg patrician family. The daughter Luise was born on April 11, 1713. She was religious, spoke fluent French and was interested in poetry - the born woman for Johann Christoph Gottsched . With her husband, Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched changed the language and literary inclinations of the Germans. Her biting joke targeted the hypocrisy of religious fundamentalists, the (lower) aristocracy, middle class climbers, German Francophiles and pseudo-intellectuals.

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Dissertation: Oneirologia sive tractus de somnis .
↑ ^a ^b Luise Adelgunde Gottsched. Pietism in Petticoats and Other Comedies (1994)
^ ^A ^b Thaddäus Zajaczkowski : The life and accomplishments of professor Johann Adam Kulmus (1689–1745) - influence of his anatomical book on teaching of surgery in Europe and progress in education of medicine in Japan . De Historia Urologiae Europaeae, vol. 23 (2016), p. 127.

personal data
SURNAME	Kulmus, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor in Danzig
DATE OF BIRTH	1680
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	November 6, 1731
Place of death	Danzig

[1] Dissertation: Oneirologia sive tractus de somnis .

[LAG1994-2] Luise Adelgunde Gottsched. Pietism in Petticoats and Other Comedies (1994)

[Zaj2016-3] A ^b Thaddäus Zajaczkowski : The life and accomplishments of professor Johann Adam Kulmus (1689–1745) - influence of his anatomical book on teaching of surgery in Europe and progress in education of medicine in Japan . De Historia Urologiae Europaeae, vol. 23 (2016), p. 127.