Johann Samuel Carl

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Johann Samuel Carl, engraving by Gottfried August Gründler (1750)

Johann Samuel Carl (* 1677 (?) In Öhringen , Hohenlohekreis ; † June 13, 1757 in Meldorf , Dithmarschen ) was a German physician and meanwhile personal physician to the Danish king.

Life

His date of birth is unknown, but Carl was baptized on August 6, 1677 in Öhringen ( Grafschaft Hohenlohe ). He began studying medicine with Professors Friedrich Hoffmann and Georg Ernst Stahl at the University of Halle . Throughout his life he had a friendship with the latter, which was not only reflected in the same professional views, but also in the pietism favored by both . Later Carl switched to the same subjects at the University of Leipzig to the professors Johannes Bohn and August Quirinus Rivinus . In 1699 Carl returned to Stahl in Halle an der Saale , where he successfully completed his studies with a dissertation . On October 26, 1704, Johann Samuel Carl with the academic surname Asclepiodorus was elected a member ( matriculation no. 260 ) of the Leopoldina .

It was around this time that Carl joined radical pietism . He founded Philadelphian societies and housed the traveling prophet Johann Georg Rosenbach. In 1708 he was therefore expelled from Württemberg. Through the intercession of his teacher Stahl, he got a job as court doctor for the religiously tolerant Count of Isenburg-Stolberg. In 1714 he joined the Inspired , who had one of their centers in the county of Isenburg-Büdingen . In 1728 he separated from the Inspired, who did not approve of his second marriage because his wife, Johanna Sophie von Bülow, did not want to join them. In the same year, Carl advanced to become the personal physician of Count Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg at Berleburg Castle . This county was also a point of accumulation of radical pietism, u. a. the so-called Berleburg Bible appeared here . Carl wrote a number of revival writings, including - initially under the pseudonym Christianus Democritus by Johann Konrad Dippel , who had also been based in Berleburg since 1729 - the journal Geistliche Fama , which appeared from 1730 to 1740 and was the main organ of the Philadelphian movement as far as North America.

In 1736, Carl became the personal physician of the pietistic Danish King Christian VI. called to his court in Copenhagen . He also served his successor Friedrich V in this function. In Denmark he reorganized medical training. However, his argument with the court preacher Johannes Bartholomäus Bluhme, based on his radical religious orientation, led to his dismissal from court service in 1740.

Carl moved to his daughter Maria Dorothea from his first marriage to Dorothea Scheller in Halle, where she was married to the pastor and professor Adam Struensee , who later became the general superintendent of Schleswig-Holstein, and was the mother of Carl August von Struensee and Johann Friedrich Struensee , who from 1768 was also a personal physician to a Danish king until 1772. He later lived with his son, who was a doctor in Meldorf in Dithmarschen, where he died on June 13, 1757 at the age of over 80.

Publications (selection)

  • Testimony from Chymischer Storgerey, especially in new examples : 1. Panacaea Talci. 2. Antimonii. 3. Solari. 4. Animali. 5. Vegetabili. 6. Spiritu mundi [et] acidis dulcificatis ... including an allegation by Fatis chymicis. Frankfurt u. Leipzig, 1733
  • Lapis Lydius philosophico-pyrotechnicus : ad ossium fossilium docimasium analytice demonstrandam adhibitis et per multa experimenta chymico-physica in lucem publicam missus. Sande publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1704
  • Therapia dogmatico clinica : ichnographice delineata. Buedingen 1737
  • Pharmacy for the poor, recently and simply furnished and communicated according to all the principles and principles of medicine . Stöhr, Büdingen 6th edition 1748 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Pharmacy for the poor, recently and simply set up and communicated according to all the principles and principles of medicine; For teaching and serving the sick poor in general, as well as those who are supposed to and want to care for them and yet do not have the actual knowledge of Artzney's art . Stöhr, Büdingen 7th edition 1764 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE)
  2. ↑ Dissertatio inauguralis medica De crebriore sanguinis missione foecunda plethorae genitrice . Hendel Publishing House, Halle 1758
  3. ^ Friedhelm Ackva, Johannes van den Berg, Martin Brecht, Klaus Deppermann: History of Pietism : 2nd volume The Pietism in the eighteenth century , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1985; P. 162f
  4. ↑ Spiritual Fama. Communicating some recent news of Divine Revivals, Guides and Judges
personal data
SURNAME Carl, Johann Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH baptized August 6, 1677
PLACE OF BIRTH Öhringen
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1757
Place of death Meldorf