Johann Lambert Joseph Comes

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Johann Lambert Joseph Comes (* December 23, 1774 in Cochem ; † April 7, 1856 there ) was a German district doctor and local researcher.

life and career

Formerly the Comes house, then the Roters café, now the Alt Cochem restaurant in Cochem on the Moselle

Johann Lambert Joseph Comes was the son of the surgeon Johann Nikolaus Comes and the pharmacist's daughter Anna Maria Pliester and was thus directly related to Father Martin von Cochem . Johann Comes married Katharina Schlink from Koblenz . After attending the Capuchin School in Cochem, he began studying theology in Trier . Then he studied medicine in Würzburg . He obtained his doctorate on September 17, 1803. Initially he is said to have worked as a doctor in Karden , but soon moved his practice to his nearby hometown of Cochem. As early as 1803 he was the district doctor for the Mairien Münstermaifeld, Gondorf, Brodenbach, Obergondershausen, Karden and Treis. In 1804 he was the first doctor to start vaccinating against cowpox . He was considered a particularly capable vaccinator. In 1817 he was appointed Prussian district physician for the Cochem district, which he remained until 1849. In 1839 he received the honorary title of "Hofrat" for his services to vaccinations. In 1853 he received the Order of the Red Eagle III on the occasion of his 50th anniversary as a doctor . Class.

In addition to his medical work, he dealt extensively with the discovery and research of Roman antiquities in his area and, over the years, brought together a collection of Roman finds, oil paintings, glass paintings and handicrafts of all kinds, including manuscripts and incunabula . Comes lived in Cochem on Bernstrasse in the house built in 1775 and completely rebuilt in 1896, which was later taken over by the master baker Roters as Café Roters . Today the Alt Cochem restaurant is located there . In the meanwhile demolished archway (Nordtor or Koblenzer Tor) above Bernstrasse between the Comesche Haus and the Hotel Germania there was a skull and skeleton collection, which, however, served more scientific purposes. This uninviting cabinet was popularly known as Hell .

Johann Comes was an honorary member of the Society for Useful Research in Trier , to which he bequeathed the prehistoric studies and Roman finds from his collection in his will. In 1819 he was the first to point out the Moselle winemakers to the so-called smoking of the vineyards in the dangerous spring frost nights.

Awards

  • 1853 Order of the Red Eagle III. class

literature

  • Reinhold Schommers and Alfons Friderichs (eds.): Comes, Johann Lambert Joseph . In: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district, Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , pp. 81–82.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Neuendorf : Hofrat Johann Lambert Joseph Comes von Kochem and the family history connections of the families Linius, Gerhardi, Pliester, Comes, v. Lassaulx: family history contributions to the history of the city of Kochem. Printing and publishing house PM Eckerskorn, Kochem ad Mosel 1937 [1]
  • Wilhelm Neuendorf: Councilor Dr. Lambert Joseph Comes from Cochem. In: Koblenzer Heimatblatt, 4th year 1927, No. 31, p. 4. [2]
  • Wilhelm Neuendorf (conclusion): Councilor Dr. Lambert Joseph Comes from Cochem. Prof. Klein has left the following description of the collection (Comes): A. Objects from the Germanic and Roman times (all from the Moselle region), B. Objects from old German art, C. Burnt glasses from the first old German masters, D. Paintings, E. Magnificent manuscripts and F. Rare incunabula . In: Koblenzer Heimatblatt, 4th year 1927, No. 32, pages 2–4 [3]
  • Günter Bretz: Councilor and Royal District Physician Dr. Johann Lambert Josef Comes , in Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 2014, pp. 49–50

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. JLJ Comes has eradicated the smallpox disease in the Cochem district
personal data
SURNAME Comes, Johann Lambert Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German district doctor and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Cochem
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1856
Place of death Cochem