Johann Just von Berger

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Johann Kilian Justus von Berger, Danish spelling: Johan Chilian Just von Berger, (* December 8, 1723 in Celle ; † March 16, 1791 in Copenhagen ) was a German-Danish doctor.

Portrait of Johann Just von Berger

family

The grandfather of Johann Just von Berger was the lawyer Johann Heinrich von Berger . Johann Just was the elder of two sons from the first marriage of the Electorate of Hanover in 1723, Johann Samuel Ritter von Berger (born August 16, 1691 in Wittenberg; † September 17, 1757 in Celle, registered at the University of Wittenberg in 1703, and in 1709 master of philosophy , Doctor of Medicine in September 1713, doctor in Celle, later Imperial Councilor) with Juliane Clara von Speyermann, who died in 1725.

Johann Just's younger brother from this marriage, Gottfried Otto von Berger (born January 26, 1725), counselor in Stade , married a cousin of his brother's wife on October 15, 1762, namely Agnes Luise Dorothea von Ramdohr (1742-1812), daughter of Albrecht Andreas von Ramdohr d. J. (1709–1775) and Luise Sophie Kotzebue (1715–1794). They had three children known by name: Clara Louise Helena von Berger (* 23 October 1763 in Celle), Sara Sophie Christine von Berger (* 1764 in Celle; † 1849; was from 1799 conventual in the Mariensee Abbey) and Albrecht Samuel Heinrich von Berger (* 1775 in Stade; † 1825 in Hameln; was clerk in Celle in 1806).

The father, Johann Samuel von Berger , married Margarethe Louise von Ramdohr (1705–1790), a granddaughter of Andreas Ramdohr , on January 1, 1726 on the Drübber estate , and Johann Just's younger half-brothers sprang from this connection

Johann Just von Berger himself married the niece of his stepmother, Sara Margarethe von Ramdohr (1722–1780, aunt of the writer Basilius von Ramdohr ) on September 21, 1751 at the Ramdohrschen Gut Drübber near Dörverden . He had two children:

Life

Berger studied and obtained his doctorate in Göttingen (1745), then traveled to Holland, England and France and was called to Denmark in 1752, on the initiative of Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff , like so many other foreign capacities, where he was court medicus the next year . In 1768 he was a royal councilor, in 1774 a royal personal physician and in 1776 a councilor. In 1779 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

He was a talented, learned and active man who not only achieved success as a doctor, but also developed medicine and natural sciences in Denmark and had an important role in the creation of several important institutions, such as the botanical garden , the Frederiks Hospital , the Koppeindpodnings-Anstalten, the Surgical Academy and also the first music societies in Copenhagen. He also participated in the creation of the Danish pharmacopoeia of 1772. In an obituary, Johann Clemens Tode said of him that he was "of greater use to the fatherland than any doctor before him". Together with his half-brother Valentin von Berger, he was granted the Danish nobility naturalization in 1776 .

However, Berger always suffered from poor health. In his final years he had a severe ear disease that resulted in dizziness and progressive deafness. However, he read about a new surgical method invented by the Prussian surgeon Jasser, a trepanation behind the ear to heal such ear diseases, and convinced his colleague, the court surgeon Alexander Kölpin , to perform this operation on himself. However, the operation resulted despite correct execution of a blood infection with encephalitis and finally to Berger's death on March 16, 1791. His final resting place is on the cemetery of the Christian church in the Copenhagen district of Christianshavn .

literature

  • Ingerslev: Danmarks Læger og Lægevæsen , II, p. 403 f.
  • W. Meyer i the 8th international Lægekongres' Forhandlinger (Compte rendu T. IV, Section d'otologie p. 56).
  • Jul. Petersen: Johann Just von Berger . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 2 : Beccau – Brandis . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1888, p. 106 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility). Part B: Noble houses of the German hereditary nobility, proven from the beginning of the 15th century to modern times. Vol. 25, 1933, ZDB -ID 134445-6 , p. 32.
  • Joachim Lampe: Aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover. The spheres of life of the higher officials at the Hanoverian central and court authorities 1714–1760. Volume 1: Presentation (= studies on the corporate history of Lower Saxony. Vol. 2, 1, ZDB -ID 518754-0 ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1963, pp. 260-263.
  • Reliable news of the great change of state that happened in Denmark on the 17th Jenner in 1772 , p.53

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenbergs Hörer . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006. ISBN 9783835300156 p. 95. ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ according to church records Dörverden KB1660-dörverden Tulifordon. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the letter aristocratic houses 1910. Fourth year, p.613 here: (* October 8, 1708; † January 10, 1790)
  4. ↑ Hans Friedl: Berger, August Gottlieb von. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 72 ( online ).
  5. ↑ private genealogy page after Hans Funke: Castle Church Book Hannover 1680 - 1812 ; Volume 2, L − Z, p. 142 and Deutsche Ortssippenbücher, Series B - Volume 75. Inspection on May 8, 2020
  6. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Johann Just von Berger
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Johann Just von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berger, Johann Justus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Danish doctor
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1791
Place of death Copenhagen