Johann Wilhelm Christian Brühl

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Johann Wilhelm Christian Brühl (born December 25, 1757 in Weimar ; † September 7, 1806 , other date September 6, 1806, in Marburg ) was a German physician and university professor .

Life

Johann Wilhelm Christian Brühl was the son of the court plasterer Johann Michael Brühl and his wife Christine Dorothea (née Werner).

After the family moved to Kassel , he first received lessons from private tutors before he attended the pedagogy and the Collegium Carolinum there; he was a student of Johann Matthias Matsko in mathematics and astronomy , Johann Gottlieb Stegmann in logic , metaphysics and physics , Christian Konrad Wilhelm von Dohm in statistics and camera science , Carl Prizier (1726–1781) in chemistry and mineralogy , Johann Jacob Huber (1707–1778) in anatomy and bone theory , Georg Wilhelm Stein in wound medicine and Christoph Heinrich Böttger (1737–1781) in herbalism; from Dietrich Tiedemann he heard about Horace and from Justus Friedrich Runde about Tacitus de moribus Germanorum .

From 1777 he studied medicine at the University of Göttingen and heard lectures from Heinrich August Wrisberg and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in natural history and osteology , who had also placed special emphasis on training as an obstetrician ; when Johan Andreas Murray he heard lectures on pharmacy , pharmacology and teething , when Johann Friedrich Gmelin to theoretical and experimental chemistry , Ernst Johann Friedrich Strohmeyer (1750-1830) on pathology at Ernst Gottfried Baldinger about semiotics in August Gottlieb Richter to Medicine and wound medicine , Georg Christoph Lichtenberg taught physics experiments and he learned the English language from the library secretary Eberhard Gottlob Glandorf (1750–1794) . He received another year-long training in the Accouchier Hospital on the cross.

He received his doctorate with his inaugural dissertation de pabulo vitae on July 10, 1781 at the University of Marburg as Dr. med. and then practiced as a doctor and obstetrician in Kassel, after he had received further training there from Georg Wilhelm Stein and worked in the local Accouchier- and orphanage.

On September 10, 1784 he became a prosector at the Anatomical Theater in Kassel before he was appointed full professor of medicine at the medical faculty of the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel on February 18, 1785 .

In the summer semester of 1786 he was appointed full professor of medicine, prosector of anatomy and also professor of pathology at the University of Marburg, after Wilhelm IX. had decided to transfer half of the Kassel lecturers to the University of Marburg; he held his inaugural lecture on August 15, 1785; in addition, on January 24, 1786, he became a full professor of maternity care; his inaugural lecture took place on May 6, 1786. In the period from 1786 to 1806 he held lectures on anatomy, physiology and the art of delivery.

In 1791 and 1796 he was dean of the medical faculty and in 1794 prorector of the University of Marburg.

His students included Johann Adam Braun and Friedrich Tiedemann , whom he also particularly encouraged.

On October 25, 1803, he became director of the Accouchierinstitut and in 1804 sole director of the Anatomical Institute, and for a time he ran a private hospital des accouchements .

Since March 25, 1787 he was married to Amalie Elisabeth Susanne (born November 7, 1770 in Marburg), daughter of the orientalist Johann Wilhelm Schröder .

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  1. E. Kallius and F. Heiderich Hrsg: Results of the anatomy and development history . tape 25 . Bergmann, Munich 1924, p. 798 .
  2. Marita Metz-Becker: The administered body: the medicalization of pregnant women in the birthing houses of the early 19th century . Campus Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-593-35747-8 ( google.de [accessed on May 27, 2020]).
  3. ^ German biography: Tiedemann, Friedrich - German biography. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
  4. The Biographer: Representation of strange people of the last 3 centuries: for friends of historical truth and human knowledge . Buchh. d. Halleschen Waisenhauses, 1807 ( google.de [accessed on May 27, 2020]).