Johann Philipp Burggrave

This article deals with the Frankfurt doctor and family doctor of the Goethe family, Johann Philipp Burggrave; on his father, the Darmstadt city physician and Frankfurt doctor, see Johann Philipp Burggrav .

Johann Philipp Burggrave the Younger (born September 1, 1700 in Darmstadt , † June 5, 1775 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German doctor . He was the family doctor for the Goethe family .

Life

Burggrave was the son of the doctor Johann Philipp Burggrave the Elder . In 1718 he went to study medicine at the University of Jena , where he was particularly influenced by Georg Wolfgang Wedel . At Easter 1721 he moved to the University of Halle , where he had Friedrich Hoffmann as the central teacher, but who did not fully fulfill his academic duties, which is why Burggrave Halle left again after a short time. In the meantime, he lived in Frankfurt before the 1724 University of Leiden was, on August 3, in which he for Dr. med. received his doctorate .

Burggrave returned to Frankfurt and became a general practitioner and author of medical writings there. 1737 he rejected a reputation as the personal physician of the Margrave Frederick III. from Brandenburg-Kulmbach . He was on June 23, 1741 with the surname Seranus III. elected member (matriculation no. 514) of the Imperial Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . He rose to become the first practicing physician in Frankfurt am Main, was a family doctor for the Goethe family, Kurmainz personal physician and councilor.

Works (selection)

• De methodo medendi pro climatum diversitate varie instituenda , Leiden 1724.
• De existentia spirituum nervosorum , Frankfurt am Main 1725.
• Lexicon medicum universale , Volume 1, Frankfurt am Main 1733 (was not continued).
• Concerns about the content and strength of the Fachinger Sauerwasser , Frankfurt am Main 1749.
• De aëre, aquis et locis urbis Francofurtanae ad Moenum commentatio , Frankfurt am Main 1751.
• Selected medical cases & reports , Frankfurt am Main 1784.

literature

• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher , Johann Christoph Adelung : Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexicon , 1st supplementary volume (A and B), Gleditsch, Leipzig 1784, Sp. 2444.
• Carl Joseph Bouginé : Handbuch der Allgemeine Litterargeschichte after Heumanns Grundriss , 3rd volume, Oerll, Geßner, Füßli and Co, Zurich 1790, p. 713 f.
• 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. 217 ( digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Stricker :  Burggrave, Johann Philipp jun. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 602 f.

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Philipp Burggrave  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ ADB and Manfred Wenzel: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - disease history . In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 449.
2. ^ Member entry by Johann Philipp jun. Burggrave (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 27, 2018.
3. ↑ The list of Goethe's doctors is not short.
4. ↑ See title of Auserlesene Medizinisch Cases & Expertise , Frankfurt am Main 1784.