Johann Ulrich von Bilguer

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Johann Ulrich von Bilguer (also Bilequer; Bilger , born May 1, 1720 in Chur ; † April 6, 1796 in Berlin ) was a Swiss military doctor in the Prussian service.

Life

Johann Ulrich Bilguer was a son of the Chur guild master Luzi Bilguer. After medical studies in Basel (1737) and Strasbourg (1738) and further medical training in Paris, he signed up as a military surgeon in the Württemberg service. He continued his training in Stuttgart and at the University of Tübingen, completed the Cursus medicus chirurgicus and in 1741 became surgical major in a Württemberg cavalry regiment, which was transferred to Berlin in 1742. Now in Prussian service, Bilguer took part in numerous campaigns and in 1757 became surgeon general in the Prussian army. On March 13, 1761 he enrolled in the matriculation album (no. 150/1761) of the University of Halle and a few days later became Dr. med et. chir. PhD . In 1762 he became the personal physician of the Prussian queen.

With his dissertation, translated into several languages, which called for extreme restraint in the amputation of injured limbs, Bilguer became the "father of conservative surgery".

Bilguer was a member of the Chur-Maynzischen Societät der Wissenschaften and in 1761 became a member of the Royal British Göttingschen Societät der Wissenschaften .

On May 17, 1762, Johann Ulrich Bilguer with the academic surname Nymphodorus IV. Was accepted as a member ( matriculation number 649 ) in the Leopoldina .

In 1794 he was the emperor in the imperial nobility collected and Johann Ulrich von Bilguer ennobled .

Bilguer had been married to Johanne Friederike Mögling, the daughter of a military surgeon, since 1742. The chess player Paul Rudolf von Bilguer was his great-grandson.

Fonts

  • Dissertatio Inauguralis Medico-Chirurgica De membrorum amputatione rarissime administranda aut quasi abroganda. Hendel, Hala Magdeburgica 1761 digitized .
  • A dissertation on the inutility of the amputation of limbs by Johann Ulrich Bilguer London, 1764 digitized
  • Messages to the public with the intention of hypochondria. Rothe, Copenhagen 1767 digitized .
  • Johann Ulrich Bilguers, the world-whiteness, medicine-knowledge and wound-medicine-art Doctors. Sr. Royal Majesty of Prussia appointed General-Surgeons, the Roman Imperial Academy of Natural Scientists, the Royal British Göttingschen and the Chur-Maynzischen Societät der Wissenschaften member and correspondents medical-surgical questions concerning the injury of the cranium: In addition to an attempt to Answer to the task: the theory of the contrafissures in the injuries of the head, and to determine the practical consequences that can be drawn from them. Decker and Winter, Berlin, 1771 digitized .

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SURNAME Bilguer, Johann Ulrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bilger, Johann Ulrich; Bilequer, Johann Ulrich; Nymphodorus IV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss military doctor in the Prussian service
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1796
Place of death Berlin