Joseph Wenzel (physician)

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Joseph Franz Ignaz Aloys Wenzel (* March 7, 1768 in Mainz , † April 14, 1808 there ) was a German doctor and university professor .

Life

Joseph Wenzel is the son of the medical professor and court judge Joseph Franz Wenzel (1733–1776). He initially received private lessons before coming to Mainz University in 1783 . After studying philosophy, which he completed as a bachelor's degree in 1786 , he first began studying theology , then switched to the university when his brother Karl Wenzel joined the medical faculty in 1786. In 1791 he was the same with his brother with the dissertation De ossium arthriticorum indoles to Dr. med. PhD . They then undertook a longer trip through Bavaria, Austria, Württemberg and Italy, where they were able to collect extensive data in Vienna, among other places . After their return, they made suggestions on how to improve medical care in rural areas. A typeface that attracted attention.

Wenzel settled in Mainz as a general practitioner in 1794 and also taught at the University of Mainz. In 1802 he was the initiator of a medical society in Mainz and in 1804 he was appointed full professor of anatomy and physiology . On June 25, 1804, the professorship was officially transferred to him. He was a member and honorary member of various learned societies, including since 1806 honorary member of the Imperial Medical and Surgical Josephine Academy of Sciences in Vienna and since 1805 a member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists. He died unexpectedly in office.

Works (selection)

  • About Cretinism , Vienna 1802.
  • Prodromus of a work on the human and animal brain , Tübingen 1804.
  • with Karl Wenzel : Remarks on dropsy of the brain , Cotta, Tübingen 1806.
  • with Karl Wenzel: Remarks on the structure of the fully grown wing and tail feathers , Cotta, Tübingen 1807.
  • Joseph Wenzel's observations on the appendages of epileptic people: In addition to a short life story of the author of Dr. Samuel Christian Lucae , Kupferberg, Mainz 1810.
  • with Karl Wenzel About the spongy outgrowths on the outer meninges: with six copper plates , Kupferberg, Mainz 1811.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Wenzel , in: Directory of Professors at the University of Mainz (accessed on August 3, 2019).
  2. ↑ Suggestions for improving surgical facilities in the country , Frankfurt am Main 1794.
  3. ↑ Samuel Christian Lucae : Joseph Wenzels Leben . In: Joseph Wenzel's observations on the appendage of people with epilepsy , Kupferberg, Mainz 1810, pp. XII f.
  4. ↑ A list can be found in Samuel Christian Lucae: Joseph Wenzels Leben . In: Joseph Wenzel's observations on the appendage of people with epilepsy , Kupferberg, Mainz 1810, pp. XVIII f.
personal data
SURNAME Wenceslaus, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wenzel, Joseph Franz Ignaz Aloys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1808
Place of death Mainz