Leonhard Ludwig Finke

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Leonhard Ludwig Finke (born October 24, 1747 in Westerkappeln , † January 17, 1837 in Lingen ) was a German professor of medicine.

From 1765 he attended the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin , then studied medicine in Halle and received his doctorate in 1772 with the thesis "De salubritate febrium in morbis chronicis". He worked first in Lengerich as an obstetrician and later in Cassel . In 1776 he was hired as a country physician and midwifery teacher in Tecklenburg . In 1780 he was appointed professor of medicine at the Lingen academic high school and retired in 1820. Finke achieved a special significance in the history of medicine through his publication "An attempt at a general medical-practical geography" (published in 3 volumes 1792–1795).

Works

  • De morbis biliosis anomalis, occasione epidemiae, cuis historia praemissa est, from 1776-1780 in Comitatu Tecklenburgensi observatis. Accedit duorum infantum mortis causa per anatomen detecta. Henr. Perrenon, Monasterium Westphalorum 1780. Digitized Bavarian State Library
    • Treatise on biliary diseases that tend to deviate from their usual form, which were observed during the epidemic that ruled the county of Tecklenburg from 1776 to 1780, together with the opening of the bodies of two deceased children ... From the Latin with comments and observations by Christian Heinrich Schreyer. Adam Stein, Nuremberg 1787. Digital copy of the Bavarian State Library
    • JL Finke. Treatise on the abnormal biliary diseases ... and Johann Peter Frank ... From the gall-light larvae of some diseases. Translated from the Latin. JG Fleischer. Frankfurt am Main 1791. Digital copy of the Bavarian State Library
  • Attempt at a general medical-practical geography in which the historical part of the indigenous national and national medical science is presented . Weidmann, Leipzig 1792 Volume I [1] , 1792 Volume II [2] , 1795 Volume III Digital copies of the Bavarian State Library

literature

  • August Hirsch:  Finke, Leonhard Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 19.
  • The Westphalian doctor Leonhard Ludwig Finke (1747–1837) as the founder of a medical-practical geography by Paul Fraatz from Sudhoff's Archive for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences Vol. 34, H. 1/4 (1941), pp. 97-104
personal data
SURNAME Finke, Leonhard Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1747
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerkappeln
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1837
Place of death Lingen