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"Obermedicinalrath und Leibmedicus": Johann Stieglitz with signature ;
Lithograph by Julius Giere , around 1840

Johann Stieglitz (also: Johannes Stieglitz, * as Israel Stieglitz on March 10, 1767 in Arolsen ; † October 30, 1840 in Hanover ) was a German doctor and author who worked in Hanover from 1789 .

Life

family

Israel Stieglitz was born as the son of the protective Jew and Princely Waldeck chamber agent Lazarus Stieglitz and his wife Friederike Luise, née. Marc was born and was the brother of the future banker Ludwig Stieglitz . The poet Heinrich Wilhelm Stieglitz was his nephew.

Career

Israel Stieglitz attended grammar school in Gotha , initially studied philosophy in Berlin and from November 1786 medicine in Göttingen .

Since his studies in Göttingen he was friends with Wilhelm von Humboldt , whose life he even saved while bathing: “He (Humboldt) bathed with his friend Stieglitz, who later became Hanoverian personal physician, on the leash in the evening near Göttingen and got caught in a vortex, who pulled him away; after a vain struggle he thought himself lost and called to his friend: 'Goldfinch, I'm drowning, but it doesn't do anything!' But he jumped after him and saved him. "()

Stieglitz received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1789 and then settled as a doctor in Hanover . In 1792 he married Jente (Sophie Jeanette) Ephraim (1764–1843), daughter of the Berlin entrepreneur Benjamin Veitel Ephraim and his wife Gutche. In 1800 converted the couple with their two sons from Judaism to Christianity . They settled in the Evangelical Lutheran St. Michael's Church in Ronnenberg by the Ronnenberger Superintendent Johann Konrad Achaz Holscher , whose district the self- Neustadt, in the Hanover belonged baptized . Baptism witness was u. a. the Konsistorialrat Johann Christoph Salfeld , abbot of the Loccum monastery. Israel Stieglitz was called Johannes Stieglitz since then , his wife was named Jeanette Sophie , his sons were Carl Ludwig and Wilhelm Adolp h. In 1802 the Christian Johann Stieglitz was appointed court medic , in 1806 first personal medic , 1820 court counselor and finally in 1832 chief medical officer and director of the chief medical college in Hanover, and thus "first and presiding member of all medical colleges for civil and military " established in Hanover . This civic career would not have been possible for him without Christian baptism.

As early as 1805, Stieglitz with the surname Philumenus IV. Was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina ( matriculation no. 1031 ) and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

For a long time Stieglitz published "detailed assessments of important medical phenomena" and successfully fought false doctrines in medicine such as the Brownian system and mesmerism , for example in the treatment of scarlet fever , which made his name known far beyond the borders of the Kingdom of Hanover .

Tomb in the Neustädter Friedhof

Johann Stieglitz's monument-protected tomb on the Neustädter Friedhof, for which the court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves verifiably provided a design, bears the inscription:

"To help suffering humanity, to strive for truth, to make his
own people happy, was a sacred purpose until the last breath of his beautiful life."

Honors

  • In 1839, while Johann Stieglitz was still alive, the Hannover Medical Association donated a medal on the occasion of Stieglitz's 50th anniversary as a doctor with his portrait ; Bronze and silver, 45 mm, medalist: Henri Francois Brandt (1789–1845). Literature: Hildegard Lehnert (granddaughter), Berlin 1897, No. 76.

Fonts

  • Dissertatio inavgvralis De morbis venereis larvatis , Dissertation, Göttingen 1789
  • About the physicians' being together at the bedside, and about their relationships in general , Hahn , Hanover 1798
  • Attempt to test and improve the now common type of treatment for scarlet fever , Hahn, Hanover 1807
  • About animal magnetism , Hahn, Hanover 1814
  • Pathological investigations , 2 volumes, Hahn, Hanover 1832
  • About homeopathy , Hahn, Hannover 1835

literature

  • Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 9, p. 527
  • Hermann Frölich:  Stieglitz, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 180.
  • Peter Hertel and Christiane Buddenberg-Hertel: The Jews of Ronnenberg - A city confesses to its past. Ed .: Region Hannover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2016, ISBN 978-3-7752-4903-4 .
  • Systematic index of the book collection of the late Royal Hanoverian Herr Ober-Medicinal-Rath and personal physician Dr. J. Stieglitz, especially from the fields of medicine, surgery and natural sciences . Auction catalog. Hanover 1841.
  • Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx: In memory of Dr. Johann Goldfinch. Royal Hanoverian senior medical councilor and personal physician. With a facsimile of his handwriting . Göttingen: Dieterich 1846.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Jewish personalities in Hanover's history , 1998, p. 14f.
  • Dirk Böttcher : Stieglitz, Johannes (Israel) , in: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 351.
  • Dirk Böttcher: Stieglitz, Johannes (Israel). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 605.
  • Wilhelm Rothert (Ed.): General Hannoversche Biographie , Vol. 2, Sponholtz Verlag, Hannover 1914, p. 584
  • Olga Stieglitz: The Ephraim. A contribution to the history and genealogy of the Prussian coin tenants, large entrepreneurs and bankers and their connections to the Itzig and other families . Among employees by Daniela Musser. Neustadt an der Aisch: Degener 2001 (German Family Archives. 131/132) ISBN 3-7686-5179-7 (in particular: pp. 145–163: The daughters of Benjamin Veitel Ephraim with special consideration of Jeannette, married Stieglitz, her husband and her descendants: pp. 148–152: Jente = Jeannette (after Sophie Jeannette was baptized); pp. 152–157: Dr. Johann Stieglitz, husband of Jeannette, née Ephraim).

Web links

Commons : Johann Stieglitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date of birth (March 31st) quoted by Olga Stieglitz 2001, p. 152, is a misprint. The correct date of birth is mentioned in the genealogical part of her work, Deszendenten survey, p. 354 and thus corresponds to the information given by Böttcher: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon, p. 351 (also in: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 605, and Marx: Zum Andenken an Dr. Johann Stieglitz, p. 3).
  2. ↑ The date of death, which is October 31 on Stieglitz's tombstone, contradicts the entry in the death book of the Schloßkirche Hannover (quoted in Olga Stieglitz 2001, p. 156).
  3. ↑ a b c d e Dirk Böttcher: Stieglitz, Johannes (Israel). In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 351
  4. ↑ Olga Stieglitz: The Ephraim. A contribution to the history and genealogy of the Prussian coin tenants, large entrepreneurs and bankers and their connections to the Itzig and other families . Among employees by Daniela Musser. Neustadt an der Aisch: Degener 2001, p. 152. The information given by Böttcher: HBL is incorrect.
  5. ↑ Wilhelm and Caroline von Humboldt in their letters . Vol. 1: Letters from the brewing period 1787–1791 . Reprint of the 1907–1918 edition. Osnabrück: Zeller 1968, p. 83, footnote (handed down from Varnhagen).
  6. ^ Hannah Lotte Lund: The Berlin "Jewish Salon" around 1800. Emancipation in the debate . Berlin: de Gruyter 2012 (European-Jewish Studies. Contributions 1), p. 551. Jente Ephraim was a childhood sweetheart of Carl Friedrich Zelter , who visited her in 1823 in Hanover. He reported to Goethe about this visit in a letter dated October 11, 1823. Goethe: All works based on the epochs of his work. Munich edition . Vol. 20: Correspondence between Goethe and Zelter in the years 1799 to 1832 . Vol. 1: Text 1799-1827. Edited by Hans-Günter Ottenberg and Edith Zehm. Munich 1991, p. 753.
  7. ↑ a b Peter Hertel and Christiane Buddenberg-Hertel: The Jews of Ronnenberg - A city confesses to its past. Ed .: Region Hannover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2016, ISBN 978-3-7752-4903-4 , p. 25.
  8. ↑ a b Hermann Frölich: Stieglitz, Johann. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 36 (1893), p. 180
  9. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 234.
  10. ↑ Johann Stieglitz: Attempt to test and improve the now common type of treatment for scarlet fever , 1807
  11. ↑ Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: The northern suburban development. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 80; and Brühlstrasse. In: middle , annex to vol. 10.2: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 3.
  12. ↑ Henrike Schwarz and others: The St. Nikolai cemetery and the Neustädter Friedhof , brochure , ed. from the city of Hannover, Department of Environment and Urban Green , Hanover 2003, p 33, PDF - document ( Memento of the original March 4, 2016 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; 2.4 MB, accessed December 5, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hannover.de
  13. ↑ Dirk Böttcher: Stieglitz .... In: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 605
personal data
SURNAME Stieglitz, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philumenus IV .; Stieglitz, Johannes; Goldfinch, Israel (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Arolsen
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1840
Place of death Hanover