Johann Hartmann Degner
Johann Hartmann Degner (also Johan Hartman Degner , born July 19, 1687 in Schweinfurt , † November 6, 1756 in Nijmegen ) was a German physician and city physician and mayor of Nijmegen.
Life
Degner initially studied law in Halle at the request of his father , but preferred to concentrate on the natural sciences and switched to medicine after the death of his father. In 1717 he received his doctorate from the University of Utrecht under Cornelis van Eck . He then worked as a doctor in Elberfeld for a year . Around 1719 he moved to Nijmegen, where he worked as a doctor and city physician until the end of his life . In 1751 Degner became senator and mayor of the city of Nijmegen.
One of his better known writings is his work on the dysentery epidemic in 1736 in the Nijmegen area.
On July 13, 1724, he was given the surname Argonauta IV. Under the registration number. 370 elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Fonts
- Disputatio Medica Inauguralis De notabili quodam casu febris petechialis cum cholerico-causodea complicatae. vande Water, Trajecti ad Rhenum 1717 digitized
- Joh. Hartm. Degneri Dissertatio physica de turfis: sistens historiam naturalem cespitum combustilium qui in multis Europae regionibus & praecipue in Hollandia reperiuntur, ac ligni loco usurpantur. Kroon and Stouw, Trajecti ad Rhenum 1729
- Historia medica de dysenteria bilioso-contagiosa: quae MDCCXXXVI. neomagi et in vicinis ei pagis epidemice grassata fuit ... Accedit Relatio historica, cum responso facultatis medicae Halensis de morte per mercurium sublim. in emplastro adplicatum, inducta. Apud N. van Vucht, Trajecti ad Rhenum 1754 digitized
literature
- August Hirsch : Degner, Johann Hartmann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 27.
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 209 (archive.org)
- Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 156 ( archive.org ).
Web links
- Member entry of Johan Hartman Degner at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on October 24, 2017.
- Important citizens of the free imperial city of Schweinfurt - Johann Hartmann Degner
- Works by and about Johann Hartmann Degner in the German Digital Library
- Johann Hartmann Degner in the German biography
- Digital portrait index - Johann Hartmann Degner
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Degner, Johann Hartmann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Degner, Johan Hartman; Degener, Johann Hartmann; Argonauta IV. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1687 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schweinfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1756 |
| Place of death | Nijmegen |