Johann Gottlieb Thierfelder

Johann Gottlieb Thierfelder (born June 26, 1799 in Leipzig ; † February 24, 1867 in Meißen ) was a German doctor and medical historian.

Life

Johann Gottlieb Thierfelder attended from 1813, the Medical-Surgical Academy for the military in Berlin, serving from 1815 as a regimental surgeon . After the regiment was dissolved, he returned to Leipzig in 1816, where he continued to study medicine. In 1821 he was with the magazine "De cognoscendis morbis Acutis ex lingua" to Dr. med. PhD. He then moved to Meissen, where he worked as a general practitioner until the end of his life. He also held the position of city physician .

In addition to his practical work, Thierfelder was particularly concerned with the field of older medical history and literature. Here he was the author of numerous important publications, which he found in Carl Christian Schmidt's yearbooks of all domestic and foreign medicine or Janus. Central magazine for history and literary history of Medicin published. At Janus he was one of the main employees.

progeny

Johann Gottlieb Thierfelder was married to Henriette Thierfelder, b. Immisch (1799–1869), the daughter of a doctor from Knauthain near Leipzig. Known children of this marriage were:

Theodor Thierfelder (1824–1904), professor and full professor for internal medicine at the University of Rostock .
Felix Thierfelder (1826-1891), general practitioner in Meißen, doctor in charge at the Bethlehem Abbey in Ludwigslust , medical advisor.

Albert Thierfelder (1842–1908), professor and director of the Institute of Pathology at the University of Rostock.

Emilie Thierfelder, married to pastor Ernst Weiss zu Lockwitz near Dresden , parents of (Christian) Felix Weiss (* 1855), Dr. med. and medical council in Schwerin.

Fonts (selection)

De cognoscendis morbis acutis ex lingua. Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1821, dissertation ( digitized, BSB digital )
Additamenta ad Henrici Haeseri Bibliothecam epidemiographicam. Klinkicht, Meißen 1843 ( digital, BSB digital )
Contributions to the doctrine of the diseases of the spleen. In: FA von Ammon : Monthly journal for medicine, ophthalmology and surgery , Weidmann, Leipzig 1839 ( Google Books )

literature

Julius Pagel : Thierfelder, Johann Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 3.
Thierfelder, Johann Gottlieb. In: German biographical encyclopedia. Vol. 10, Thibaut-Zycha. Saur, Munich [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 3-598-23170-9 , p. 6.

Web links

Entry on Johann Gottlieb Thierfelder in the CERL Thesaurus
Works by and about Johann Gottlieb Thierfelder in the German Digital Library
Thierfelder, Johann Gottlieb in the German biography

Individual evidence

↑ Janus. Central magazine for the history and literary history of medicine, medical biography, epidemiography, medical geography and statistics. In connection with several scholars at home and abroad, ed. by H. Bretschneider, AWET Henschel , CF Heusinger and JG Thierfelder, NF Vol. 1–2. Gotha 1851–1852 (ND Leipzig 1931) - Also published from 1846 to 1849 in 3 volumes in Breslau.
^ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1929, p. 133.

personal data
SURNAME	Thierfelder, Johann Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	February 24, 1867
Place of death	Meissen

[Janus-1] Janus. Central magazine for the history and literary history of medicine, medical biography, epidemiography, medical geography and statistics. In connection with several scholars at home and abroad, ed. by H. Bretschneider, AWET Henschel , CF Heusinger and JG Thierfelder, NF Vol. 1–2. Gotha 1851–1852 (ND Leipzig 1931) - Also published from 1846 to 1849 in 3 volumes in Breslau.

[2] Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1929, p. 133.