Justus Gottfried Günz

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Justus Gottfried Günz (born March 1, 1714 in Königstein , Saxony , † June 23, 1754 in Dresden ) was a German anatomist and doctor .

Life

Justus Gottfried Günz was the son of a preacher living in Königstein in Saxony, who taught him until he was 15 years old. Then he moved into the high school in Görlitz and 1732, the University of Leipzig to there medicine to study. At this university he received his doctorate in 1738 and then undertook a major scientific journey through parts of Germany and France as well as through the Netherlands . As early as 1739 he received an extraordinary professorship in medicine in Leipzig. In 1747 he became a full professor of physiology and soon after that of anatomy and surgery . In 1751 he followed a call to Dresden as personal physician to Elector Friedrich August II of Saxony . But he died in Dresden in 1754 at the age of 40. He was u. a. Member of the Académie des Sciences in 1744 and of the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1750 .

Fonts

Günz was not only an excellent ophthalmologist , but also a man of great general medical education. In surgery it was especially his work on the treatment of stones that caused a sensation. In obstetrics , his work on the situation of those who are in delivery should be emphasized. In ophthalmology , his publications on the star and the staphyloma were particularly important. In the history of medicine he worked among other things on individual works by Hippocrates of Kos .

His publications include:

  • De mammarum fabrica et lactis secretione , 1734
  • De auctore operis de re medica, vulgo Plinio Valeriano adscripti , 1736
  • Daduchiae in sacris Aesculapii , 1737
  • De vena cava, vena umbilicale et anastomose harum venarum in hepate , 1738
  • De oscitatione , 1738
  • De libello Hippocratis, qui agit de dissectione , 1738
  • De puris ex pectore in bronchia derivatione , 1738
  • Nova sententia de respiratione , 1739
  • De commodo parturientium situ , 1742
  • De arteria maxillari interna , 1743
  • Observationes medico-chirurgicae de herniis , 1744
  • De sanguinis motu per durioris cerebri membranae sinus , 1747
  • De staphylomate , 1747
  • Observationes anatomico-physiologicae circa hepar , 1748
  • De maxillae articulo et motu , 1748
  • De entero-epiplocele , 1748
  • De cerebro observationes anatomicae , 1750
  • De suffosionis natura et curatione , 1750
  • De utero et naturalibus feminarum partibus , 1753
  • De lapillis glandulae pineralis in quinque mente alienatis , 1753
  • Ad ozaenam maxillarem et dentium ulcus , 1753

In the Mémoirs de l'académie royale de sciences (Mathématique et Physique, vol. 1, p. 1750) there are von Günz Observations sur la glande thyroide , Observations sur le cartilage cricoide , Observations sur quelques muscle de larynx, du pharynx et de l'os hyoide , as well as in the treatises of the Swedish Academy of 1751, notes on the heart and liver of an eight-month fruit .

In addition, Günz published:

  • Observationum chirurgicarum de calculum curandi viis, quas Foubert, Garengeot, Pechet, Ledran et Lecat chirurgi galli reperunt , Leipzig 1740
  • Hippocratis Coi de humoribus purgandis liber et de diaeta acutorum libri III , Leipzig 1745 (only a revised and enlarged copy of the collection that Pierre Girardet had published in Paris in 1631)

Günz's rich anatomical cabinet was compiled after his death in Praeparata anatomica in liquore, sicca et ossa, Günziana (Dresden 1756).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter G. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 11, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Günz, Justus Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigstein , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1754
Place of death Dresden