Johann Ludwig Casper
Johann Ludwig Casper (born March 11, 1796 in Berlin ; † February 24, 1864 there ) was a German forensic doctor .
Live and act
As a medical student he wrote the libretti for the first four operas by the young Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . Under the pseudonym Till Ballistarius he published the romantic tragedy Die Karfunkel-Weihe in 1818 . Casper was full professor for Medicina forensis and Medicina publica at the University of Berlin from 1839 until his death in 1864 .
Johann Ludwig Casper died in Berlin in 1864 at the age of 67 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved. The Casper rule is also named after him, a rough estimate of the lying time of corpses.
His nephew Carl Liman was also a forensic doctor and continued to publish the handbook of forensic medicine from the 5th edition (1871) .
Publications
- Contributions to medical statistics and state medicine , 2 volumes, Berlin 1825–35
- About the Probable Lifespan of Man , 1843
- Memoirs of Medical Statistics and State Medicines , 1846
- About emergency discipline and pederasty and their investigation by the court doctor. In: Quarterly for judicial and public medicine. Vol. 1 (1852), pp. 21-78 ( digitized version ).
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Practical manual of judicial medicine , 2 volumes (Volume 1: Biological Part, Volume 2: Thanatological Part), Berlin 1856
- 2nd Edition. August Hirschwald, Berlin 1858
- 3. Edition. August Hirschwald, Berlin 1860 ( 2nd volume )
- A Handbook of the practice of forensic medicine (3rd edition translation by George William Balfour), The New Sydenham Society, London; 1861: 1st volume , 1862: 2nd volume , copy , 1864: 3rd volume , 1865: 4th volume
- Traité Pratique de médecine Légale (translation by Gustave Germer Bailliére), Librairie Médicale Germer Baillière, Paris 1862 ( 1st volume , 2nd volume )
- 4th edition. 1864, with atlas ( digital copy of the atlas )
- 5th edition. Revised and enlarged by Carl Liman, August Hirschwald, Berlin 1871 ( 1st volume , copy ; 2nd volume , copy )
- 6th edition. Carl Liman: Johann Ludwig Casper's Handbook of Judicial Medicine , August Hirschwald, Berlin 1876 ( 1st volume , 2nd volume )
- 7th edition. Carl Liman: Johann Ludwig Casper's Handbook of Judicial Medicine , August Hirschwald, Berlin 1881 ( 1st volume , copy , 2nd volume )
- 8th edition. Carl Liman: Johann Ludwig Casper's Handbook of Judicial Medicine , Berlin 1889
- 9th edition. Adolf Schmidtmann (Hrsg.): Handbook of forensic medicine. Ninth edition of the Casper-Liman manual , 3 volumes, August Hirschwald, Berlin 1905: 1st volume, 1907: 2nd volume , 1906: 3rd volume
- Clinical novellas on forensic medicine , 1862 ( digitized version )
literature
- Hermann Friedberg : Forensic and critical remarks on Casper's practical handbook of forensic medicine . JH Geiger, Lahr 1857 ( digitized version ).
- August Hirsch : Casper, Johann Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 58 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Ludwig Casper in the catalog of the German National Library
- Pagel-1901: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors
- History of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Charité
- Volkmar Schneider : Forensic medicine in Berlin in times of political upheaval , lecture, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 300.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Casper, Johann Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ballistarius, Till (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forensic doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1864 |
| Place of death | Berlin |