Johann Paul L'Estocq

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Johann Paul L'Estocq (also: Jean Paul Lestocq ; * May 21, 1686 in Celle ; † November 9, 1726 in Breslau , Principality of Breslau ) was a Franco-German general practitioner .

Life

Johann Paul L'Estocq came from the old French noble family L'Estocq . He was the eldest son of the ducal who emigrated from France in the course of the expulsion of the Huguenots and settled in Celle, later electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg chief surgeon Jean von L'Estocq and his wife Judith Colin (1653-1732). He was the first to be baptized in the church book of the Celler Reformed congregation , who, like his seven siblings , was baptized by the pastor Louis Suzannet de la Forest . The godparents at the baptism on May 24, 1686 were Paul Formé from Berlin, first surgeon of the Elector of Brandenburg , and the businessman Paul Colin, also from Berlin - a relative of L'Estocq's mother. Their baptism was the regimental surgeon François Tessier from Celle. Another godmother was Madeleine Franke.

L'Estocq studied medicine and received his doctorate on 5 October 1715, the University of Groningen Dr. med. He then practiced first in Hanover , then in Hamburg , before he was appointed city ​​physician of Boizenburg . Duke Karl Leopold confirmed him as such on July 5, 1718.

L'Estocq married the eleven years older Johanna Wosegin (1675-1726), daughter of a professor working in Königsberg. He died in Breslau as a captain at the age of only 40.

Fonts

  • Dissertatio medica inauguralis de peripneumonia ... , Groningae, Ex officina Johannis a Velsen, 1715.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stephan Sehlke: Das Geistige Boizenburg: Education and the educated in and from the Boizenburg area from the 13th century to 1945 , Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8448-0423-2 , p. 59; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b c d Andreas Flick: The ancestor of the German aristocratic family von L'Estocq / Huguenot was chief surgeon of Duke Georg Wilhelm's guard , article on the Cellesche Zeitung page on February 6, 2016, last accessed on May 1, 2020
personal data
SURNAME L'Estocq, Johann Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES L'Estocq, Jean Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION general practitioner
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1686
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1726
Place of death Breslau , Principality of Breslau