Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost
Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost (born November 27, 1715 in Rosperwenda , † December 2, 1794 in Duisburg ) was a German physician and Protestant theologian and first described the Leidenfrost effect named after him .
Life
Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost was born on November 27, 1715 in Rosperwenda as the son of the local pastor Johann Heinrich Leidenfrost. Leidenfrost first studied Protestant theology, then medicine in Gießen , Leipzig and Halle . In 1741 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the movement of the human body. Several trips followed as well as participation as a field doctor in the First Silesian War .
In 1743, Leidenfrost followed a call to a medical chair at the University of Duisburg . In 1745 he married Anna Cornelia Kalckhoff from Duisburg. The marriage had seven children, including Johanna Ulricke (1752–1819), who would later become the wife of the Protestant theologian Elias Christoph Krafft (1748–1798). One of her sons was Christian Krafft . Leidenfrost's son Johann Heinrich (approx. 170–1787) enrolled in medicine at the Academy in Lingen in 1769 and later worked as a doctor in Elberfeld.
Leidenfrost, who had to read physics and chemistry in addition to medicine , was rector of the university several times from 1751. Reports from the time of the French occupation testify that this office required just as much determination as erudition: For example, in 1760, Leidenfrost had to free his colleague Otto Ludwig von Eichmann from arrest with as much tenacity as financial means . The French commandant had confiscated a diatribe against Madame de Pompadour that was being offered for sale by the university's bookseller and had made his professorial colleague responsible for it. The ordered arrest, which was carried out in the constant company of a French soldier, was by its nature less threatening than annoying. (after: Roden 1979, I, 64).
In 1758, Leidenfrost became a foreign member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1773 he was elected to the Leopoldina's medicine section . In Duisburg, Leidenfrost also published his more than seventy writings, including De Aquae Communis Nonnullis Qualitatibus Tractatus , published in 1756 , which deals with the Leidenfrost effect , later named after the author . Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost died on December 2, 1794 in Duisburg. On October 1st, 2006 a memorial plaque in honor of JG Leidenfrost was inaugurated on the old school building in Rosperwenda.
Works
- De aquae communis nonnullis qualitatibus tractatus . Duisburg (1756)
- Opuscula physico-chemica et medica . 4 vols. Duisburg (1797–1798)
literature
- Gernot Born , Frank Kopatschek: The old University of Duisburg 1655-1818 . Mercator-Verlag, Duisburg 1992, ISBN 3-87463-177-X .
- Wilhelm Krafft : Leidenfrost, Johann Gottlob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 215 f.
- Walter Ring: History of the University of Duisburg. With a map . City administration, Duisburg 1920.
- Günter von Roden : History of the city of Duisburg . Braun-Verlag, Duisburg 1970/79
- Old Duisburg from the beginning until 1905 .
- The districts from the beginning, the entire city since 1905 . ISBN 3-87096-101-5 .
- Anton Wilhelm Peter Möller : About the life, character, merits and last hours of Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost's A word in memory of the immortal man . Duisburg 1795.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Tenfelde: Album Studiosorum Academiae Lingensis 1698-1819 . Lingen 1964, p. 55
- ^ Albrecht Blank: Philipp Lorenz Withof : Biographical Notes, Sources and Suggestions . Norderstedt 2014, p. 358
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on April 20, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leidenfrost, Johann Gottlob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic and theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1715 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosperwenda |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1794 |
| Place of death | Duisburg |