Karl Sigismund Kramer

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Karl Sigismund Kramer (born September 16, 1759 in Harsleben , † January 4, 1808 in Halberstadt ) was a German doctor, writer and translator.

Life

His father was the landowner Matthias Christoph Kramer (1727–1799) from Halberstadt, his mother Sophie Charlotte Rostosky (1740–1799) also came from there. After attending high school in Quedlinburg , he studied medicine in Halle an der Saale from 1779 . At the beginning of April 1781 he moved to the University of Göttingen . When he returned to Halle, he received his doctorate from the medical faculty in autumn 1783.

He first practiced in Aschersleben . In 1784 he settled in Halberstadt, where he stayed until his death. In 1785 he became a member of the Literary Society founded in the same year . He began to publish his own writings, but above all he translated texts from the fields of literature, history and medicine from English, French and Italian.

On June 13, 1791, he married in Derenburg Julie Adam (1768-1846) from Halberstadt, daughter of glove manufacturers Jean-Henri Adam (1730-1791) and Marie Béchier (* 1734), both were of French origin, their ancestors probably Huguenots . During the 1790s he was appointed city ​​physician . He was friends with the Prussian officer and poet Franz von Kleist (1769–1797) who was stationed in Halberstadt and who dedicated the Ode Apollonia - To Doctor Kramer to him in 1792 . In 1800 he was appointed Royal Prussian Medical Councilor.

His marriage had eight children, one of whom died early. His son Gustav Kramer (1806–1888) became a high school teacher and director of the Francke Foundations in Halle an der Saale.

Fonts

  • De medicina populari. consensu atque auctoritate gratiosi ordinis medici pro gradu doctoris medicinae ac chirurgiae legitimate impetrando d. XXVII septembr. Dissertation. Grunert, Halle 1783.
  • Talk about the state of the beautiful sciences under Frederick the King ... 1786.
  • In memory of great German men, a means of awakening patriotism. 1790.
  • Small stories and moral paintings. 1797.

Translations

  • Armstrong's Art of Maintaining Health. Füeßly, Zurich 1788.
  • Mary, Queen of Scotland. A tragedy by Johann Sanct John. 1790.
  • Rinaldo and Armide, an episode from Tasso's Liberated Jerusalem. 1790.
  • Anecdotes and traits : 1. D'Alembert and his wet nurse ; 2. Philosopher Terrasson . 1791.
  • Thomas Beddoes: About the causes, early signs and prevention of lung addiction, for instruction for parents and educators. Groß, Halberstadt 1802.
  • Report of the Committee of the British House of Commons on the petition of Doctor Jenner on his important discovery of the vaccination of cowpox. Groß, Halberstadt 1803.

literature

  • Johann Caspar Philipp Elwert: News from the life and writings of now living German doctors ... Gestenberg, Hildesheim 1799.
  • Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland. Meyer, Lemgo 1803 ff.
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: General lexicon of scholars… Heyse, Leipzig 1810.
  • Christian Friedrich Raßmann : German poet necrolog. Happach, Nordhausen 1818.
  • August Wilhelm Andreae: Chronicle of the doctors of the administrative district Magdeburg ... Baensch, Magdeburg 1860.
  • August Hirsch : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1885.
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Karl Sigismund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Harsleben
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1808
Place of death Halberstadt