Johann Georg Steigerthal (medical doctor)

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Illustration for Steigerthal's presentation of the Steinkindes von Leinzell
Illustration for Steigerthal's presentation of the Steinkindes von Leinzell

Johann Georg Steigerthal (born February 2, 1666 in Nienburg , † June 27, 1740 in Hanover ) was the personal physician of George I of England and a member of the Royal Society of London .

Life

Steigerthal was a son of the city preacher of the same name and later superintendent of Nienburg Johann Georg Steigerthal and his wife Catharina Ursula, née. Wessling. He studied medicine from 1684 in Helmstedt , from 1688 in Leiden and from 1689 in Utrecht , received his doctorate in 1690 and in 1703 became professor of medicine at the University of Helmstedt. From 1715 he was court and personal physician in Hanover. He also headed the health service in the Electorate of Hanover . In 1732 he was appointed councilor .

On June 30, 1740 Steigerthal was buried in the market church in Hanover.

Act

Steigerthal wrote the first description of the Steinkind von Leinzell .

Sir Hans Sloane , the President of the Royal Society, commissioned Steigerthal, when he was in Bad Pyrmont with Georg I in 1723 , to go to Lemgo and buy Engelbert Kaempfer's East Asian collection. This is how it ended up in the British Museum .

Around 1730 Steigerthal discovered an oil well in Linden , today a district of Hanover . In 1732 he was one of the first to report successful smallpox vaccinations in England .

Works

  • De medicamentorum noxis , Diss. 1690
  • De matheseos et philosophiae naturalis utilitate in arte medica oratio , 1702
  • De aquarum mineralium praestantia programma quod praelectionibus publicis de thermis et acidulis praemittit JG Steigerthal , 1703

epitaph

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In the Martinskirche in Nienburg there are two epitaphs designed in baroque splendor for both the royal personal physician and his father, the superintendent of the same name. Part of the listed works of art, which are part of the cultural heritage of Lower Saxony, is the Steigerthal coat of arms , which shows “ Jacob's dream with the ladder to heaven , on which angels climb up and down the valley”.

Steigerthalstrasse

According to the Hanover address book from 1978 , Steigerthalstrasse, which was built in 1927 in what is now the Linden-Nord district of Hanover , is a reminder of the discoverer of the Linden oil well.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dirk Böttcher : Steigerthal, Johann Georg. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 347; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ Joachim Lampe: Aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover. The circles of senior civil servants at the central and court authorities of the Electorate of Hanover 1714–1760 (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Volume 24) (= Studies on the history of the estates of Lower Saxony , Volume 2), Volume 2: Official lists and pedigrees , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963, p. 423; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ http://www.arendi.de/Win-Family/per03308.htm
  4. ^ Jan Bondeson , The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels , Ithaca / London (Cornell University Press) 2004, ISBN 0-8014-8958-X , p. 47
  5. ↑ Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey, Derek Massarella, The Furthest Goal. Engelbert Kaempfer's Encounter With Tokugawa Japan , Routledge Curzon 1996, ISBN 978-1873410370 , p. 96 ff.
  6. ^ Nicolaus Heutger : From Lower Saxony's cultural heritage. Lectures and studies. Presented to Provost Frithjof Bestmann on his 80th birthday and 50th service anniversary on February 25, 1978 on behalf of the chapter of Bassum Abbey and the Hoya-Diepholz landscape , Hildesheim: August Lax, 1987, ISBN 978-3-7848-4024 -6 and ISBN 3-7848-4024-8 , p. 176; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Steigerthalstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 234
personal data
SURNAME Steigerthal, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Physician, personal physician to George I of England
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1666
PLACE OF BIRTH Nienburg
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1740
Place of death Hanover