Johannes Christoph Ludwig Beringer

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Title page of a dissertation with a mention of Johannes Ludwig Christoph Beringer, 1742
Title page poem of praise by Johannes Ludwig Christoph Beringer to the Palatine Elector Karl Philipp, 1743

Johannes Christoph Ludwig Beringer (born July 3, 1709 in Bamberg ; † February 28, 1746 in Heidelberg ) was a physician, university professor and personal physician to the Prince-Bishop of Speyer .

Origin and family

He was born as the son of the physician Georg Philipp Beringer († 1720), personal physician of the Bamberg and Mainz prince-bishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn and his wife Maria Josepha born. Bissing (1682–1764) born. His younger brother Christoph Beringer (1713–1770) was a Jesuit in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and a professor of logic and metaphysics in Heidelberg. The father's brother Johannes Bartholomäus Adam Beringer († 1738) officiated as personal physician to the Würzburg bishop Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim .

Live and act

Johannes Christoph Ludwig Beringer first studied philosophy and matriculated on December 15, 1727 to study medicine at the University of Würzburg . There the uncle Johannes Bartholomäus Adam officiated as professor of the faculty. In 1731 he was baccalaureus , on May 27, 1732 doctor of medicine.

In 1738 Beringer was promoted to full professor of medicine at Heidelberg University . At that time he was already working as the personal physician of the Speyer prince-bishop Damian Hugo Philipp Cardinal von Schönborn . From 1738 until his death he also worked as a physicist for the Heidelberg district. In 1739, 1742, 1743 and 1745 Johannes Christoph Ludwig Beringer was Dean of the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg. He published some medical textbooks and died in 1746, "as a victim of his tireless zeal for service", as it is called in Bamberg's pantheon of writers and artists (1812). From 1741 Beringer was married to Catharina Elisabeth Mühlfard.

Beringer apparently also wrote poetry at times; it is a poem of praise that has appeared in print on the occasion of the death of Elector Karl III. Philipp of the Palatinate (1743).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon: 1652–1802 , Springer-Verlag, 2013, p. 8, ISBN 3642762964 ; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Beringer, Johannes Christoph Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, personal physician to the Prince-Bishop of Speyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1709
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1746
Place of death Heidelberg