Johann Gottfried Bremser

Johann Gottfried Bremser, lithograph by Josef Lanzedelli the Elder. Ä. , circa 1820

Johann Gottfried Bremser (born August 19, 1767 in Wertheim ; † August 21, 1827 in Vienna ) was a physician and parasitologist .

Live and act

He studied medicine in Jena and received his doctorate there in 1796. After traveling through Germany, Switzerland and Italy, he moved to Vienna and studied medicine there. After completing his studies, he joined the doctoral college in 1797 and from then on worked as a practicing doctor in Vienna. He volunteered as a brigade doctor for the Free Corps of the Viennese Citizenship, which, however, was no longer used until the armistice concluded on April 7, 1797 with the Napoleonic troops. In 1806 he began to work in the Hof-Naturalien-Cabinet (the forerunner of today's Natural History Museum Vienna ), where he became curator in 1811 . In 1815 he traveled to Paris to continue his research. In 1820 he became a member of theLeopoldina elected. In 1821 he was elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

At the instigation of Karl Franz Anton von Schreibers , he began building a collection of helminths in the Vienna Natural History Collection. In addition to his work on parasites, including one of the first papers on helminthology , Bremser published on scarlet fever , cowpox and measles . He strongly advocated the legal introduction of the cowpox vaccination.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Brakeman, Johann Gottfried . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 131 ( digitized version ).
August Hirsch: Brakeman, Joh. Gottfr. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 305.
Helmut Dolezal: Brakeman, Johann Gottfried. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 582 ( digitized version ).
A. Prinz (Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Vienna): Johann Gottfried Bremser (1767–1827) - doctor, hygienist, helminthologist (PDF file; 5.96 MB) , in: Communications from the Austrian Society for Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 12 (1990) 243-254
David Ian Grove: A History of human helminthology . Red-e2.com, Adelaide 2000, ISBN 1-876809-08-6 .
Verena Stagl, Helmut Sattmann: The Lord of Worms. Life and work of the Viennese doctor and parasitologist Johann Gottfried Bremser (1767–1827) . Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-205-78921-5

Web links

"Where the worm is in - Research into the intestinal worms". Design: Barbara Zeithammer. Moderation and editing: Bea Sommersguter. May 7, 2013 with pictures.

Individual evidence

^ Member entry of Johann Gottfried Bremser at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 7, 2016.
^ Member entry by Johann Gottfried Bremser (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 7, 2016.
↑ H. Sattmann, R. Konecny, Verena Stagl: The History of the Helminth Collection at the Natural History Museum in Vienna (PDF file; 7.70 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Brakeman, Johann Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Medic and parasitologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 19, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wertheim
DATE OF DEATH	August 21, 1827
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Member entry of Johann Gottfried Bremser at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 7, 2016.

[2] Member entry by Johann Gottfried Bremser (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 7, 2016.

[3] H. Sattmann, R. Konecny, Verena Stagl: The History of the Helminth Collection at the Natural History Museum in Vienna (PDF file; 7.70 MB)