Johann Josef Wilhelm Lux

Johann Josef Wilhelm Lux (born April 6, 1776 in Opole ; † January 29, 1849 in Leipzig ) was a German veterinarian at the University of Leipzig .

In 1833 he founded isopathy .

From 1793 to 1800, Lux studied medicine in Opole, law in Jena and veterinary medicine in Breslau. After a stay at the Thierarzneischule in Berlin from 1800 to 1803, he continued his studies in medicine, economics and botany in Leipzig from 1803 to 1805. In 1805 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. Between the winter semester of 1805/06 and the summer semester of 1819 he held regular lectures at the University of Leipzig and then returned sporadically to university teaching. He practiced from 1810 to 1847.

From 1832 to 1837 he was a member of the Homeopathic Central Association .

Publications

• The animal doctor is one of the most important men in the state. Glogau 1800.
• How can the cattle plague unmistakably be recognized and dealt with in its first emergence: a hitherto hidden secret, presented and processed for businessmen through contemporary histories of the same in a series of reports, opinions and negotiations. Leipzig: Junius, 1803.
• Characteristics of the cattle epidemic or deciphering of previously unrecognized signs ... the so-called horned cattle epidemic. Leipzig 1803.
• Disquisitiones politico-oeconomicae et veterinariae. Lipsiae: Nagel, [1806].
• Originals on subjects of the state economy and veterinary police. Leipzig: Barth, 1807.
• Alexander Tolnay; Johann Josef Wilhelm Lux: Handbook of the knowledge and healing of epidemics. Leipzig 1808. (on Google Books )
• New methods of setting limits to the cattle plague. Leipzig 1813.
• The executioner according to all his connections: to pressure for the state police authorities, city magistrates and county officials, city and district physicists, veterinarians and executioners. Leipzig 1813.
• Instruction to stop and cure the solvent drought or cattle plague: For Kreisphysiker-Thierärzte u. Economists. Leipzig: Lauffer in Comm., 1815.
• About the knacker's being and the consequences of its abolition: the arcana, sympathetic cures and the secret language of the executioners and knackers; together with evidence based on experience that animals that have fallen from anthrax are highly contagious. Leipzig: Lauffer, 1818.
• The isopathic of contagions or all infectious diseases carry the means of their healing in their own infectious substances. Submitted to the Coriphae of Homeopathic for strict examination. Leipzig: Kollmann, 1833.

literature

• Fritz D. Schroers: Lexicon of German-speaking homeopaths. Stuttgart: Karl F. Haug Verlag 2006. P. 91. (see Google Books )

Web links

• Overview of courses taught by Johann Josef Wilhelm Lux at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1814 to winter semester 1832)