Johann Valentin Hildenbrand

Johann Valentin Hildenbrand or Johann Valentin Edler von Hildenbrand (born April 8, 1763 in Vienna ; † May 31, 1818 ibid) was an Austrian physician.

Hildenbrand studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1784, where he was trained primarily by Maximilian Stoll . After finishing his studies moved Hildenbrand as Physicus (district doctor) to Waidhofen an der Thaya , however, occurred due to the poor pay in 1787 as a private physician in the service of the Polish count Mniszek. Hildenbrand followed Mniszek to Volhynia and was able to acquire a good reputation through his work as a personal physician, so that he was awarded the title of councilor by King Stanislaus . In 1793 Hildenbrand received the medical and surgical chair at the University of Lemberg and later also held the position of director of the medical faculty. In 1799 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Hildenbrand, who was awarded the title of Imperial Councilor in 1805, moved to Vienna in 1807 and took over the position of director of the medical clinic at the Vienna General Hospital . In 1811 Hildenbrand also became director of the general hospital and the foundling house, and Hildenbrand was appointed to the government council in the same year. In his research, Hildenbrand devoted himself in particular to experiments to investigate environmental conditions as causes of disease, where he carried out hygro , thermo , barometer and anemometer measurements. However, his writings achieved hardly any scientific significance, as his main work is the monograph on typhus , written in 1810 and translated several times. Hildenbrand's great work on febrile illnesses "Institutiones practico-medicae rudimenta nosologiae et therapiae specialis complectentes" appeared in only the first volume before his death, the rest of the work was edited by his son Franz Xaver .

Fonts

• Institutiones pharmacologiae sive Materiae medicae / communicat in Usum Tironum I. Val. Nob. from Hildenbrand. - Binz, Vienna 1802. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• About the contagious typhoid, along with a few waves to limit or completely eradicate the war plague and several other human diseases . Vienna 1810
• Institutiones practico-medicae rudimenta nosologiae et therapiae specialis complectentes. T. I continens morborum divisiones et systemata, doctrinam de febribus in genere . Vienna 1817
• About the plague, a handbook for doctors and surgeons who devote themselves to the plague service . Vienna 1799
• Ratio medendi in schola practica Vindobonensi . Vienna 1804–1809
• Institutiones pharmacologiae sive materiae medicae in usum tironum . Vienna 1806
• Initia institutionum clinicarum . Vienna 1807

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Hildenbrand, Valentin Johann Edler von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1863, pp. 14–16 ( digitized version ).
• August Hirsch :  Hildenbrand, Johann Valentin Edler von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 409 f.
• Hildenbrand, Valentin Johann von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 316.
• Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna, Vol. 3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. 114.