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 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.
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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 |