Lebrecht Friedrich Benjamin Lentin

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Lebrecht Friedrich Benjamin Lentin (born April 11, 1736 in Erfurt , † December 26, 1804 in Hanover ) was a German doctor and well-known author of medical works at the time.

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Lebrecht Friedrich Benjamin Lentin was the son of Caspar Friedrich Lentin , doctor of law, second mayor and head of the poor house in Erfurt. Lentin's grandfather was a merchant who immigrated from Sicily (the town of Lentini ). Lentini's mother was the daughter of Eleonore Johanne Magdalene of the court counselor and Göttingen law professor Tobias Jacob Reinhardt .

Lentin studied from 1749 in Erfurt (initially classical languages ​​and literature) and from 1754 medicine in Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1756 (dissertation: De praerogativa venaesectionis in partibus laborantibus ). In 1756 he was a doctor (rural physician, without salary) in Diepholz and from 1758 in Dannenberg , where he was in a paid job, but hardly found his financial livelihood. As early as 1757 he published about electrical experiments. In 1771 he became a doctor (physician and garrison medic ) in Ratzeburg (with good financial livelihoods) and from 1774 he was a mountain medic and city doctor (city physician) in Clausthal . The position was better endowed with 600 thalers - Lentin now had a large family to look after, but Lentin still had financial problems and the work was exhausting. He turned down a call to Göttingen as a medical professor from 1783. In 1783 he became a physician (Physikus) in Lüneburg and in 1796 the second personal physician of the King of Hanover and went to Hanover (he refused a call to Copenhagen as court medic from the same time). In Hanover, he had a good practice despite stiffer competition. In 1799 he wrote a pharmacist's tax for the Electorate of Hanover on behalf of the government of the Electorate. The last years of his life were darkened by the death of his talented son (also a medical doctor) and his friend Johann Ernst Wichmann (also court medicus) as well as the occupation of Hanover by the French.

In 1792 he became a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. He reviewed practical medical works for the Göttingen Academy and its advertisements from 1778 to 1794. On 20 November 1793, he was awarded the academic nickname Latrodorus as a member (Matriculation no. 973) in the Leopoldina added.

He learned Italian and translated medical works and in 1783 a book on Vesuvius (by JM Della Torre) from Italian and in 1779 a book on the plague and other infectious diseases by Karl von Mertens from Latin. According to his biographer Ernst Gurlt (article in ADB), his pleasant, elegant, sometimes humorous style contributed to his success as a medical writer and he was open to innovation, but rejected the strict adherence to medical schools. In his time he was one of the few doctors who also performed surgery and published about it. His depictions of epidemics were important and he promoted scientific ear medicine.

Fonts

  • Observationum medicarum Fasciculus , 2 parts, Leipzig 1774, 1770
  • Observations of some diseases , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck 1774, digitized version (about the observation of diseases in Lauenburg)
  • Principles for the preparatory cure against the horned cattle disease published by the government of Hanover (1775) , 1776
  • Memorabilia circa aërem, vitae genus, sanitatem et morbos Clausthaliensium anno 1774–1777 , Göttingen 1779
    • German translation: Memorabilia, regarding air quality, way of life etc. of the inhabitants of Clausthal , 1800
  • Observations of the epidemic and some sporadic diseases on Oberharze from the years 1777 up to and including 1782 , 1783
  • Contributions to practicing Arzney science , 3 volumes, Leipzig 1789, digitized , 1798, 1804
  • Contributions to medical science practicing , supplement volume , Leipzig: Crusius, 1808, with the biography of Lentin von Wilhelm Sachse (personal physician of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and son-in-law of Lentin), google books
  • De Aphtis , Memoires Soc. Royale Med., Paris, Volume 8, 1790 (volumes for 1787, 1788, Paris price publication)
  • Tentamen vitiis auditus medendi, maximam partem novissimis Anatomicorum et Chirurgorum inventis adstructum , Göttinger Commentationen, Volume 11, 1793
  • News of the health wells and baths in Rehburg , 1803

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 240 digitized
  2. ↑ For this writing he was accepted into the Göttingen Academy of Sciences
personal data
SURNAME Lentin, Lebrecht Friedrich Benjamin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Latrodorus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1804
Place of death Hanover