Julius Minding
Julius Minding (born November 8, 1808 in Breslau , † September 7, 1850 in New York ) was a German doctor and writer .
Life
After High School in Breslau studied Minding at the University of Berlin medicine . He finished his studies in 1833 with a doctorate to become a Dr. med. He then worked as a doctor for a few years. During this time he also began writing and publishing. He translated Esaias Tegnér's Frithjofssage from Swedish .
A few years later he gave up his job and switched to business. After some speculation, which made him quite wealthy, he crashed financially and emigrated to America in 1850.
In the same year, Minding and a friend founded a medical bureau in New York . But that same year, Minding committed suicide.
In 1870, Clemens Rainer and August Becker Mindings brought Pope Sixtus to the stage in an adaptation.
Works
- On the geographical distribution of the mammals (1829)
- Textbook of the natural history of fish (1832)
- De vitae functionum perturbationibus notiones generales , Diss. (1833)
- The life of the plant (1837)
- Songs from old Fritz (1846)
- Pope Sixtus the Fifth (1846)
- Spring of Nations (1848)
- Tegnér, Esaias. Frithiofsage. Translated by Julius Minding. - Berlin (inter alia): Cornelius, 1842. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
Web links
- Literature by and about Julius Minding in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Minding, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1850 |
| Place of death | New York City |