Johann Heinrich Mensching

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Johann Heinrich Mensching ( Latinized : Joann or Ioannes Henricus Mensching; * around 1766 in Schwerin ; † February 15, 1815 ) was a German physician, court medicus and country physician .

Life

Johann Heinrich Mensching, who came from Schwering in the Duchy of Mecklenburg , was a brother of the doctor and court medicus August Ludwig Mensching .

Mensching studied medicine at the University of Göttingen , where he in 1787 with the at Johann Albrecht Barmeier laid dissertation De aeris fixi ac dephlogisticati in medicinae usu Dr. med. received his doctorate . In the same year he also worked as a respondent in Göttingen.

In 1800 he joined the Natural History Society of Hanover (NHG), which his brother had founded shortly before in 1797 .

While his brother was among the Hofmedici in Hanover, Johann Heinrich Mensching was also, according to the king. Great Britain and Electorates. Braunschweig-Lüneburgschen Staats-Kalender to the year 1799 also Hofmedicus and was also listed under the "Land-, Stadt- und Garrison-Physici" when he worked in the area of ​​the former county Hoya and the former county Diepholz von Nienburg an der Weser as a rural physician worked in the offices of Nienburg , Liebenau , Steierberg , Stolzenau , Siedenburg , Barenburg , Harpstedt and Diepenau . Mensching was a Freemason and a member of the Georgian lodge for the silver unicorn in the Orient of Nienburg on the Weser.

Fonts

  • De aeris fixi ac dephlogisticati in medicinae usu: dissertatio inauguralis physico-medica ... / auctor Joann. Henricus Mensching , Goettingae: Typis Joh. Albr. Barmeier [1787].

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Report of the Natural History Society in Hanover (1968), p. 54; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b c GND 143825070 for "Mensching, Johann Heinrich", accessed on May 2, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b L. Jördens: Attempt of a history of the Georg lodge to the silver unicorn in the Oriente from Nienburg a. W. As Ms. for Brr. Freemasons. , Hanover, Ben. Jäneke, 1846, p. 1; Digitized via Google books
  4. ↑ a b Royal-Grossbrittannischer and Churfürstl.-Braunschweig-Lüneburgscher state calendar to the year 1799 , p. 32, vaS 95; Digitized via Google books
  5. ^ Catalog entry (Sign .: Sk 14/397) of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library .
personal data
SURNAME Mensching, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal British and Electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburgischer Hofmedicus and Landphysicus
DATE OF BIRTH around 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin , Duchy of Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1815