Johann Jakob Rambach (physician)

Johann Jacob Rambach , also Johann Jacob Rambach (born August 30, 1772 in Quedlinburg , † February 2, 1812 in Hamburg ) was a German medic .

Life

Johann Jacob Rambach Dr. med. 1772-1812 , collective grave slab Physici , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Johann Jacob Rambach was the second son of the theologian Johann Jakob Rambach (1737-1818) and his wife Marie Juliane Louise Boysen (1745-1773). He attended the school of scholars in Quedlinburg and then studied medicine in Halle , where he received his doctorate in 1792. Then he opened a medical practice in Hamburg. In 1801 he published the much-acclaimed work attempt at a physical and medical description of Hamburg . In 1802 Rambach was also head of a rescue facility for drowned people. In 1804 the Hamburg Senate elected him physicist . He died of " hot nervous fever ".

The theologian August Jacob Rambach and the philologist Friedrich Eberhard Rambach were brothers of Johann Jakob.

In the Ohlsdorfer Friedhof , Johann Jakob Rambach, among others, is commemorated on the collective grave plate Physici of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery.

Works

Attempt of a physical-medical description of Hamburg. Carl Ernst Bohn, Hamburg 1801, digitized

literature

Otto Beneke : Rambach, Johann Jacob (jun.) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 200 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Rambach, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rambach, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH	Quedlinburg
DATE OF DEATH	February 2, 1812
Place of death	Hamburg