Johann Martin Honigberger
Johann Martin Honigberger (born March 10, 1795 in Kronstadt , † December 18, 1869 there ) was a Transylvanian doctor , pharmacist and oriental researcher.
Life
The doctor began his first of a total of five trips to the Orient in 1816 over several stays (including Constantinople , Persia ) until 1829 to India . Here he became the royal Indian personal physician of Ranjit Singh in Lahore (northern India), in the kingdom of the Sikhs . On his travels he also carried out extensive botanical research that took him to Afghanistan and the Himalayas . He had also acquired knowledge of homeopathy and used it in India.
In Calcutta and Lahore he set up hospitals for the poor. He was also involved in the fight against plague and cholera .
In India he is honored as the “father of homeopathy” because he was the first to implement the method here. In Constantinople he had a homeopathic practice between 1837 and 1838.
Works
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Fruits from the Orient or travel experiences along with natural history and medical experiences, a few hundred tried and tested medicines and a type of healing, the medial system. Gerold, Vienna 1851; increased edition 1853 ( digitized version ).
- Reprint of the 1853 edition: As a personal physician at the court of the "Lion of Panjab" Ranjit Singh: Reprint of the travel experiences Vienna 1853. With an afterword by Jürgen Hanneder . Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, Halle an der Saale 2011, ISBN 978-3-86977-036-9 .
- English translation: Thirty-five years in the East. Adventures, discoveries, experiments, and historical sketches, relating to the Punjab and Cashmere; in connection with medicine, botany, pharmacy, etc. Together with an original materia medica; and a medical vocabulary, in four European and five eastern languages. H. Baillière, London 1852.
- Cholera, its cause and infallible cure and epidemics in general. Translation from English. C. Dittmarsch, Vienna 1865 ( digitized ).
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Honigberger, Johann Martin . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1863, pp. 255–258 ( digitized version ).
- Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt : Honigberger, Johann Martin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 70 f.
- Honigberger Johann Martin. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 413.
- Günther Hamann: Honigberger, Johann Martin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 597 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Mircea Eliade : The Secret of Doctor Honigberger: A Novella. Ed. AB, Hamburg 1974.
- Robert Sigaléa: Johann Martin Honigberger, médecin et aventurier de l'Asie. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-5229-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arnold Huttmann : Transylvanian pharmacies and pharmacists in Arnold Huttmann: Medicine in Ancient Transylvania , Hora Sibiu / Sibiu 2000, pp 379-390.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Martin Honigberger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Notes from India (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Honigberger, Johann Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Transylvanian doctor, pharmacist and oriental researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kronstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1869 |
| Place of death | Kronstadt |