Johann Georg Müller (medical doctor)
Johann Georg Müller (born September 24, 1780 in Mülheim am Rhein , † September 22, 1842 in Düsseldorf ) was a German doctor and author.
Life
Johann Georg Müller was a son of the tailor Johann Peter Müller and Gertrud Koch. He presumably attended the Latin school in Mülheim and then the central school in Cologne , where budding doctors were also trained, but there is no evidence for either assumption. One of his college friends was Johann Jacob Noeggerath , who was also trained in Cologne. Until 1803, in post-revolutionary France, the practice of medical art was permitted without an examination, after which at least the examination had to be proven at an appropriate institution. Johann Georg Müller enrolled for his doctorate on December 3, 1809 at the University of Duisburg , two days later he passed the examination there with Professor Daniel Erhard Günther with a 14-page thesis De vi naturae medicatrice , in which he presented himself the animist Georg Ernst Stahl , whose principles he later advocated. He dedicated the dissertation to the members of the Düsseldorf Medical College, including Johann Gotthelf Leberecht Abel . It is unknown what relationship Müller had with this college. However, he may have completed part of his training in Düsseldorf. This medical college was founded in 1708 and was dissolved in 1808.
He took up his first position as a doctor after completing his doctorate in Euskirchen . As early as 1810, however, he became a canton doctor in Königswinter and soon afterwards a Landsturm doctor in the Landsturm des Siebengebirge , which had formed after the Battle of Leipzig and Napoleon's defeat in Königswinter. The Berg Generalgouvernement was established under Justus von Gruner in 1813 . Müller was now sworn in on Gruner and kept his old post as canton doctor.
In 1814 he wrote a rationalizing topography of the canton of Königswinter in 48 pages . Soon after, on April 30, 1815, he married Johanna Katharina Fuchs (1795–1876) in Bodendorf an der Ahr . The marriage resulted in seven children, including Peter Wilhelm Karl and Pauline Walburga, called Wally, who would later become Jakob Becker's wife .
In 1819 Müller became a district physician in Bergheim an der Erft . This position was specially created. This was related to the health inspection and reorganization that the new Prussian government wanted to undertake. An instruction from November 1, 1819 assigned the district physician not only to care for the general state of health including epidemic prevention and vaccinations in the district, but also to care for the poor, casualties and prisoners, if no other doctor was employed, as well as medical and judicial care or police investigations including the preparation of appropriate reports. He also had to collect material for a future medical topography of the district. The district physician was rewarded with 200 Reichstalers annually. In the spring of 1820, Müller and his family moved into the house at Hauptstrasse 30 in Bergheim. The house was small, damp and uncomfortable, jealous colleagues caused inconvenience to Müller, and the only real friendship was with the circle surgeon Johann Salentin Sartorius and the pharmacist Conrad Balthasar Harff. Good relationships also developed with the noble families on the surrounding estates and castles. The landrätliche office was probably on the advice miller on Schloss Frens relocated because District Franz Ludwig Graf Beissel von Gymnich on the gout was suffering.
In 1820 the entire Müller family fell seriously ill in Bergheim. Because Müller had been seriously injured by a shy horse in November of the same year, he asked for his release on March 16, 1821 for health reasons. He was then given permission to settle in Cologne as a general practitioner. Before this decision could be communicated to him, Müller was again the victim of an accident on April 14, 1821. This time, he fell in a barn and injured his spine , causing partial paralysis of his right thigh and also affecting bladder function. So he wrote again to the government and asked to be allowed to stay in Bergheim. In the years that followed, the Bergheim family was repeatedly plagued by diseases. Two of the four children born in Bergheim - the sons Hubert Jacob Karl and Heinrich - died there, as did their daughter Maria, who was still born in Königswinter.
In 1828 Müller again sought his release and moved with his family to Düsseldorfer Neustraße, where they lived until at least 1833. The family then moved to Karlsplatz , where a lively social life developed, which was particularly encouraged by the artistic interests of their son Wilhelm. For financial reasons, Johann Georg Müller wanted to take over the post of Düsseldorf district doctor and leave the practice to his son, but a serious illness thwarted this plan. Müller died on September 22, 1842 at Grabenstrasse 788 in Düsseldorf. His son wrote an obituary for him. His widow lived for a while at Breiten Strasse 856 in Düsseldorf before she returned to her home in the Rhineland-Palatinate.
Johann Georg Müller's work Der Kreis Bergheim around 1827 , which he had to write as a district physician for the Bergheim district established in 1816 by order of the Prussian administration, was published in 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Digital collections / The register of the University of Duisburg, 1652–1818. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
- ^ Johann G. Müller and Sabine Graumann, Der Kreis Bergheim around 1827. Prussian inventory of the country and its population , Böhlau 2006, ISBN 978-3412293055 , pp. 1–30
- ↑ http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=21075
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Johann Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1780 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mülheim am Rhein |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1842 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |