Johann Ludwig Klohss
Johann Ludwig Klohss ; also: Johann Ludwig Klohß (born November 20, 1770 in Zerbst ; † January 28, 1825 there ) was a German medic.
Life
Johann Ludwig Klohss was the son of a wealthy owner of a wax bleach .
Initially, he received private tuition at home and attended high school in Zerbst (today: Francisceum Zerbst ). In 1781 his maternal grandfather, city councilor and city physician Jacobi, took him into his house for three years while he continued to attend grammar school. On the advice of his grandfather, he then attended the Pforta state school , which he left in 1787 to attend the grammar school illustrious (today: Ernestinum Gotha ) in Gotha for a year.
In 1788 he began to study medicine at the University of Jena and heard lectures from Justus Christian Loder , Christian Gottfried Gruner , Johann Christian Stark and Ernst Anton Nicolai, among others . He passed the medical exam with summa cum laude and obtained a doctorate in medicine and surgery.
In the autumn of 1791 he left Jena and went to the clinical institutions in Berlin for six months and mainly attended the Charité , after which he returned to Zerbst. For the next seven years he lived with his grandfather Jacobi and set up his own practice. Because he had already specialized in obstetrics at this time and the midwifery in Zerbst was in bad shape, he succeeded in becoming a city and country accoucheur (from the French accoucher de “to be released from someone / something”) by the authorities in 1799 , in the sense of “to give birth, to give birth”) to be appointed free of charge to the incapable of hard births from the town and villages on this side of the Elbe, and to supervise the midwives and their training.
After his grandfather Jacobi died in 1804, he not only took over most of his practice, but was also appointed city physician as his successor, but shared this task with the later councilor Johann Georg Friedrich Henning (1763-1823). After Henning's death, the Zerbst city council gave him the sole office of city physician.
In 1813 he became life-threatening with typhus , which was rampant at the time , but was able to recover and then worked tirelessly in the care of citizens and soldiers of various nations who were in the area at the time due to the wars of liberation .
Johann Ludwig Klohss had been married to Auguste, daughter of the businessman Gelbcke from Zerbst, since 1799; together they had three daughters and a son who later also became a doctor.
honors and awards
- The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. awarded him the General Badge of Honor II in 1817 and a year later, 1st class.
- Duke Leopold IV. Friedrich von Anhalt-Dessau appointed him his court medicus in 1823 after Johann Georg Friedrich Henning, who had been until then, died.
Fonts (selection)
- Ordinis Medici Ienensis Decanus Just. Christ. Loder, D. Solemnia Inauguralia . Jena 1791.
- Medical remarks on the use and effectiveness of hydrochloric heavy earth . Zerbst 1793.
literature
- Johann Ludwig Klohss in New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 3rd year 1825, 1st issue. Ilmenau 1827. p. 172 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The appointment of Doctor Johann Ludewig Klohß as city and country accoucheur both in the city of Zerbst and for the offices of Zerbst and Walternienburg. Retrieved October 15, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klohss, Johann Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klohß, Johann Ludwig; Klohss, Johann L .; Klohss, Joannes Ludovicus; Klohss, Ioannes Ludovicus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1770 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zerbst |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1825 |
| Place of death | Zerbst |