Johann Conrad Brunner
Johann Conrad Brunner (also Brunn von Hammerstein , born January 16, 1653 in Diessenhofen near Schaffhausen , † October 2, 1727 in Mannheim ) was a Swiss doctor , anatomist and physiologist .
Life
Born on January 16, 1653 in Diessenhofen (in the canton of Thurgau ), Johann Conrad Brunner studied medicine in Strasbourg from 1669 , where he received his doctorate in 1672 , and in the following years worked in Paris , London , Oxford and Amsterdam , where he was particularly active busy with anatomy . He then worked as a general practitioner in Schaffhausen and dealt with experimental physiology in collaboration with Johann Jakob Wepfer and Johann Conrad Peyer .
In 1687 he became a full professor of anatomy and physiology in Heidelberg with botany as a minor, a position which he gave up after a year to return to his homeland. In 1695 he became the personal physician of the Elector Palatinate , Johann Wilhelm . Brunner, now active in the residential city of Düsseldorf , was raised to the nobility by the elector for his services as Brunn von Hammerstein . After Johann Wilhelm's death in 1716, Brunner remained as a personal physician in the service of his successor, Karl III. Philip . Johann Conrad Brunner lived in Mannheim from 1720 until his death.
Services
In 1683 Brunner Hunden removed the pancreas and observed extreme thirst and polyuria as a result ; He considered the discoverer of the necessary for fat digestion function of the pancreas and the pancreoprive diabetes mellitus .
He also described certain malformations of the central nervous system.
1686 Brunner discovered later named after him, Brunner's glands ( glands Brunnerianae ) in the duodenum ( duodenum ) of man and dog. He described it the following year in his treatise De glandulis in duodeno intestino detectis . However, they were discovered before by his father-in-law Johann Jakob Wepfer .
Honors
In 1685 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
Fonts
- Poetum monstrosum et bicipitem , Diss. Med. Strasbourg 1672
- De glandulis in duodeno intestino detectis , Heidelberg 1687
- Experimenta nova circa pancreas; accedit diatriba de lympha et genuina pancreatis usu , Amsterdam (with Henricus Westenius) 1683; 2nd edition Leiden 1722.
literature
- Heinrich Buess: Brunner, Johann Conrad von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 682 f. ( Digitized version ).
- August Hirsch: Brunner, Johann Conrad von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 447.
- Axel W. Bauer : Johann Conrad Brunner. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte . De Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 216.
Web links
- Urs Boschung: Brunner, Johann Conrad. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Publications by and about Johann Conrad Brunner in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Krebs and Heinrich Schipperges : Heidelberger Chirurgie 1818–1968 , Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1968, p. 21.
- ↑ Elizabeth Lane Furdell: Fatal thirst: diabetes in Britain until insulin . ISBN 90-04-17250-5 , page 89
- ^ Axel W. Bauer : Brunner, Johann Conrad , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York p. 69. doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
- ^ Member entry by Johann Conrad Frhr. von Brunn at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on November 12, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brunner, Johann Conrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hammerstein well; Brunner, Johann Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1653 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Diessenhofen near Schaffhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 1727 |
| Place of death | Mannheim |