Johann Michael Hoffinger

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Johann Michael Hoffinger (born September 29, 1723 in Vienna , † August 6, 1756 in Sibiu ) was a Transylvanian doctor and member of the " Leopoldina "

Life

Johann Michael Hoffinger was born in Vienna as the son of a wealthy Viennese middle class family. He became a master of philosophy there in 1740. He then studied medicine in Strasbourg, Paris, Halle and Vienna. In Vienna he became Gerard van Swieten's favorite student . In 1752 he received his doctorate in medicine. A year later, in 1753, at Gerard van Swieten's request, Hoffinger was sent to Sibiu as camera physician and professor of obstetrics. After his arrival, the plague broke out in the region in 1755, an epidemic that was not always immediately recognized by local doctors. Hoffinger organized a plague cordon and went to Kronstadt because this is where the plague raged worst. He examined the living and the deceased residents of the city of Săcele and the surrounding villages. On February 27, 1756, these communities were closed by the military cordon. Here he became infected and died of this disease on August 6, 1756.

On October 10, 1755, Johann Michael Hoffinger was nicknamed Philomusus III. accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 600 ) in the Leopoldina . His handwritten curriculum vitae is in the archive of the “Leopoldina”. However, the scientific treatises that Hoffinger had written for Gerard van Swieten and the “Leopoldina” have not been found in Kronstadt since the plague.

In 1754 Johann Michael Hoffinger married Johanna, the daughter of the Imperial Knight von Füllenbaum. Johann Georg Hoffinger , who later also became a doctor and member of the "Leopoldina", is a son of the married couple Johann Michael and Johanna Hoffinger.

plant

  • De doloribus parturentium (dissertation 1752).

literature

  • Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 517 digitized
  • Documentary library of the Honterus community in Kronstadt , IV F 417, fragment of the diary of an anonymous author, p. 35.
  • Arnold Huttmann : Medicine in old Transylvania , Hora Hermannstadt / Sibiu 2000, p. 304.
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 222 digitized
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 161 ( archive.org ).
  • Constant von Wurzbach : Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire , containing the life sketches of the memorable people who lived in the imperial state and in its crown lands from 1750 to 1850 , vol. 14, p. 480.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Sticker : Treatises from epidemic history and epidemic theory , Volume I: The plague , first part: The history of the plague , Alfred Töpelmann Gießen 1908, page 258.
  2. ↑ Erna Lesky : Austrian Health Service in the Age of Enlightened Absolutism , Vienna 1959, p. 62.
  3. ↑ Arnold Huttmann 2000: 308th
  4. ^ Member entry by Johann Michael Hoffinger at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 21, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffinger, Johann Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffingerus, Johannes Michael; Hoffinger, Johannes Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transylvanian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1756
Place of death Sibiu