Johann Theodor Pyl

Johann Theodor Pyl (born November 16, 1749 in Barth ; † December 27, 1794 in Berlin ; also Joannes Theodorus Pyl ) was a German doctor and forensic doctor .

Life

Johann Theodor Pyl was the son of the Barther doctor Theodor Pyl (1718–1759) and the great-nephew of the pedagogue Christoph Pyl . After the early death of his father, the theologian Johann Joachim Spalding became his guardian. From 1765 Pyl attended the Sundisches Gymnasium in Stralsund , whose principal at that time was Christoph Andreas Büttner . In 1768 he began studying medicine at the University of Greifswald , but also devoted himself to the philosophical sciences. During this time he researched together with his friend Christian Ehrenfried Weigel .

Instructed by his guardian Spalding, he went to Berlin in 1776, where he attended courses in anatomy and practical medicine. In 1777 he received his license to practice medicine in Berlin and received his doctorate in Greifswald in 1778 as a doctor of medicine. In the same year he went to Silesia as a field doctor for the Prussian army . During the War of the Bavarian Succession , he gained the trust of his superiors and King Frederick II. For this reason, on November 10, 1779, the King appointed him City Physicist of Berlin and Councilor of the Collegium Medicum . Pyl led forensic medicine in Berlin to its first high point.

In 1780 he married Magdalena Louise Rebelt († 1784). His father-in-law's extensive scientific collection prompted him to turn to scientific studies. With Konrad Friedrich Uden he published the first German journal for public health care from 1782 - from 1785 alone. He became a member of several learned societies (including since 1790 about the Leopoldina ) and in 1787 a councilor in the "Collegium sanitas". In 1792 his second wife died. Pyl was later appointed Senior Medical Councilor. He died in 1794.

Fonts

Johann Theodor Pyl was editor and author of several medical journals:

• Magazine for forensic medicine and medical police. I-II, Stendal 1782-1784; together with Konrad Friedrich Uden
• New magazine for forensic medicine and medical police. I-II, Stendal 1785-1788
• Essays and observations from forensic medicine science. I – VIII, Mylius, Berlin 1783–1793
• Repertory for Public and Forensic Medicine. I – III, Vieweg, Berlin 1789–1793

He translated Carl Peter Thunberg's treatise on Japanese coins from Swedish .

literature

• Theodor Pyl :  Pyl, Johann Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 783 f.

Web links

• Literature about Johann Theodor Pyl in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Forensic medicine collection of the Humboldt University in Berlin
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