John Armstrong (poet)
John Armstrong (* 1709 in Roxburghshire , † September 7, 1779 in Covent Garden ) was a Scottish doctor and poet.
Life
Armstrong studied medicine in Edinburgh , then settled as a general practitioner in London, became a hospital doctor there in 1749 and served as a doctor in the English army in Germany from 1760–63. He died on September 7, 1779.
His didactic poem The art of preserving health: a poem in 4 books (London 1744; Ger. Leipzig) deals with a less poetic material in a sober way, but met with approval for the correctness of the language. Of his other writings, the poem The Economy of Love (1739, amended 1768) deserves mention.
Under the pseudonym Launcelot Temple he edited Sketches or essays on Various subjects (1758). He also published Miscellanies (1770, 2 volumes). George Gilfillan (1859) got a new edition of his poems .
literature
- Adam Budd (Ed.): John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-Century Sensibility in Practice . Ashgate, Farnham [and a.] 2011, ISBN 978-0-7546-6306-5
- Armstrong, John . [physician] . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 2 : Andros - Austria . London 1910, p. 591 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Firstscience.com ( Memento from June 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Armstrong, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish doctor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1709 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roxburghshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1779 |
| Place of death | Covent Garden |