Johann Ludwig Formey

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Johann Ludwig Formey, engraving by Johann Friedrich Bolt (1806)

Johann Ludwig Formey (born February 7, 1766 in Berlin ; † June 23, 1823 ) was a German medic.

Life

His father was the secretary of the Berlin Academy of Sciences Jean Henri Samuel Formey .

He was first tutored at home by his father and then went to the French grammar school. He wanted to become a doctor from an early age. He studied medicine in Halle and Göttingen and received his doctorate in Halle in 1788. He then went on an educational trip. In Strasbourg he studied with Spielmann, Lauth and Herrmann. With the help of letters of recommendation from Strasbourg, he was able to study in Paris . There he met Christian Gottlieb Selle and Legation Councilor Ancillon, among others . He was there when the French Revolution broke out, attended some meetings and wanted to leave the city in October 1789, but was arrested. Succeeded Jean-Sylvain Bailly , get him out of jail. 14 days later he managed to escape with a group of Prussians disguised as a servant. The stable master Bolny was coming from Morocco to buy horses on the way to Switzerland. Formey first attended the University of Zurich and later Geneva . He then traveled to Vienna via Munich and Regensburg . But when tension arose between Prussia and Austria, he had to leave the country. The states were able to prevent the war with the Reichenbacher Convention . On his way back he brought documents from the Prussian ambassador in Vienna von Jacobi. He became a military doctor and came as an assistant to the General Staff Medic Riemer. He visited the field hospitals in Glogau, Glatz and Schweidnitz, but the war with Austria did not take place. In 1791 he became the Army Medical Officer. In 1794 he took part in the campaign of the Prussian troops against the Kościuszko uprising in Poland. Together with the general surgeon Christian Ludwig Mursinna, he was director of the hospitals. However, he soon returned to Berlin because of a serious illness. He had earned a good reputation and in 1796 he was appointed personal physician to King Friedrich Wilhelm II in Potsdam. After the king's death he returned to Berlin. In 1798 he was appointed professor at the Collegium medico-chirurgicum . In the same year, Formey, Heim and Brehmer examined the desolate conditions in the Charité on the orders of the king. After the dissolution of this institute, Formey became a professor at the Medical and Surgical Academy in Berlin in 1809 . In 1804 he succeeded Riemer as general staff physician, but in 1805 he resigned from the position because the influence of general surgeon Görcke prevented changes.

In 1806 Louis Bonaparte called him to Paris, where he stayed for six weeks. Other celebrities of the time also took the opportunity to consult him. The outbreak of the Fourth Coalition War made it necessary to return via Switzerland. In 1817 he was given the position of a lecturing council in the Medical Department of the Ministry of the Interior.

After a long and serious illness, Formey succumbed to an abdominal disease.

Johann Ludwig Formey was a member of the Société de médecine de Paris , the Mineralogical Society of Jena and the Economic Society of St. Petersburg . He was a bearer of the Red Eagle Order 3rd Class , the Russian Order of St. Anne 2nd Class and the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor .

family

Formey was married twice.

Fonts (selection)

  • Attempt of a medical topography of Berlin . 1796, digitized
  • Medicinal ephemeris from Berlin . 4 issues, 1799/1800.
  • About the current state of medicine with regard to the education of future doctors , digitized
  • Dropsy of the brain cavities . 1810.
  • AW Iffland's disease history , 1814, digitized
  • Comments on the goiter , 1821, digitized
  • Attempt to assess the pulse , 1823, digitized

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personal data
SURNAME Formey, Johann Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1823