Johann Hermann Becker (medical doctor)

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Johann Hermann Becker (born June 5, 1770 in Schwerin ; † January 7, 1848 in Parchim ) was a German physician who worked as a doctor in Parchim and as a spa doctor in Doberan .

Life

Johann Hermann Becker came from the Rostock family of scholars that went back to his great-grandfather Hermann Becker . He was the son of the Schwerin doctor Hermann Ludwig Becker (1722–1789), the personal physician of the Duchess Luise (1756–1808), and his wife Anna Maria Karnatz († 1773).

Becker studied medicine and received his doctorate in Rostock in 1791 . From 1794 to 1797 he worked as a general practitioner in Altona / Elbe , then in Parchim. In 1810 he was appointed court advisor , in 1815 as grand ducal personal physician and in 1826 as secret medical advisor. In 1833 he was next Samuel Gottlieb Vogel second spa doctor in Doberan and in 1837 as his successor first spa doctor.

Becker dealt with food science and the human digestive system in his publications . During his time as a spa doctor, he wrote about the health effects of the maritime climate and bathing applications.

He was a Freemason and a member of the Grand Lodge of Germany . Since 1843 Becker was an honorary citizen of Parchim.

Fonts

  • Diss. Inaug. An phthisi pulmonali exulceratae conveniant remedia tonica? (Rostock, 1793)
  • [Trans. from:] Nicolas Chambon de Montaux: About the diseases of children. Oehmigke, Berlin 1801.
  • Johann Herrmann Becker's attempt at a general and specific food science. With a preface by Samuel Gottlieb Vogel . 4 volumes. Franzen & Grosse, Stendal 1810–1822 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • Instructions for appropriate behavior before and during the outbreak of cholera disease: designed for its practical scope . Zimmerman, Parchim 1831.
  • A few remarks about the influence of weather on the human organism in general and especially on the use of the seaside resorts in Dobberan . Hinstorff, Parchim 1835.
  • The stomach in its healthy and diseased condition: generally considered . Franzen, Stendal 1836.
  • Doberan in the summer of 1837. Hinstorff, Parchim and Ludwigslust 1838.
  • Notes on carbonic acid gas baths and their upcoming establishment in Doberan. In: Freimüthiges Abendblatt. Vol. 23. Schwerin 1841, No. 1159, Col. 217-224.
  • Continued remarks on the carbonate gas baths established at Doberan in 1841. In: Freimüthiges Abendblatt. Vol. 25, Schwerin 1843, No. 1277, Col. 491-496 ( digitized version ) and No. 1278, Col. 523-527 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Becker, Johann Hermann . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 37.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ She was the wife of Duke (later Grand Duke) Friedrich Franz I (1756–1837)
  2. ↑ Joh. Gottfr. Müllerischen Buchh. (Ed.): Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . December 1810, col. 808 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Proof of the Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany in Berlin for the years 1844 and 1845, including the inventory of the same on June 24, 1844. Details of the Provincial Lodges working under their great hammer at that time and their officials, those founded by it and authorized St. Andreas and St. Johannis lodges and the Freemason lodges with which it stands in terms of designation and correspondence. ES Mittler, Berlin 1844, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Johann Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, doctor in Parchim, spa doctor in Doberan
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1848
Place of death Parchim