Ludwig Christoph Wilhelm Cappel

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Ludwig Christoph Wilhelm Cappel (* 1772 in Helmstedt ; † July 9, 1804 in Münden ) was a German doctor and university professor .

Life

Cappel was the son of Hofrat and medicine professor Wilhelm Friedrich Cappel . He studied from 1793 at the University of Helmstedt medicine and was there in 1796 with the dissertation De sanguinis congestionibus to Dr. med. PhD . Then he settled as a general practitioner . With his work De pneumonia typhode sive nervosa he completed his habilitation in 1798 at the University of Göttingen , where he taught as a private lecturer until his appointment as associate professor in 1800 .

Cappel also received an appointment as an imperial councilor and professor in Moscow . However, he could no longer take up this position. He died of pulmonary consumption while traveling .

The writer and actress Clara Anschel was his sister, the doctor Johann Friedrich Ludwig Cappel his brother and the clergyman Andreas Friedrich Gottlob Glaser his brother-in-law.

Works (selection)

  • De pneumonia typhode sive nervosa etc. , 1794.
  • Contribution to the assessment of the Brownian system , Dieterich, Göttingen 1798.
  • A few words about the value of theory and one's own experience in relation to the practice of medicine , Dieterich, Göttingen 1798 (digitized version) .
  • Medical examinations , 1801.

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SURNAME Cappel, Ludwig Christoph Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmstedt
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1804
Place of death Münden