Konrad Barthold Behrens

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Konrad Barthold Behrens (born August 26, 1660 in Hildesheim , † October 4, 1736 in Braunschweig ) was a German doctor and historian .

Life

He received his doctorate in Helmstedt in 1684. As a Braunschweig military doctor he took part in the war in Hungary and was appointed personal physician to Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Lüneburg in 1712 . He is known as the author of a history of the Princely House of Brunswick and because of his scientific achievements in the field of hygiene and forensic medicine .

He died in Braunschweig in 1736.

The physician Rudolph August Behrens was his son.

Honors

In 1694 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Since 1708 he was a foreign member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Expert opinion on how a soldier in the field can guard against disease. Hildesheim 1689.
  • Medicus legalis etc. Publisher Paul Zeisings, Helmstedt 1696, OCLC 14310518 .
  • Selecta diaetetica de recta ad valetudinem tuendam ratione. Hildesheim 1710.

literature

  • Heinrich Deichert: From Leibniz's circle of friends. Konrad Barthold Behrens (1660–1736), a doctor and scholar from Lower Saxony. in: Sudhoff's archive for the history of medicine and the natural sciences. 28, 1935/36, pp. 44-80.
  • August Hirsch:  Behrens, Konrad Barthold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 289.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Conrad Barthold Behrens at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 14, 2015.
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Konrad Barthold Behrens. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 19, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Behrens, Konrad Barthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military doctor
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1660
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1736
Place of death Braunschweig