Matthias Georg Pfann

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Matthias Georg Pfann (born October 3, 1719 in Bruck (Erlangen) , † June 16, 1762 ) was a German medic .

Life

Matthias Georg Pfann was a son of the doctor Georg Pfann, who worked in Bruck near Erlangen . In 1731 he entered the third class of the Aegidianum grammar school in Nuremberg , trained at this institute under the teachers Spörl, Wülfer, Röder and Münz until 1735 and then studied medicine in Jena from 1736 to 1738 . There he heard the lectures of several professors; Köhler taught him natural law , Stellwag in logic , then Reusch in metaphysics , Hamberger in physics , mathematics and an introduction to pharmacy, Wedel in medical practice, Teichmeyer in osteology , anatomy and botany , and Hilscher on the Boerhaavian concept of teaching.

To continue his studies, Pfann went to Altdorf around Whitsun 1739 , studied there for some time under Jantke, Weiß and Kirsten and disputed on October 12, 1739 for the degree in pharmacy. Then he went to his father in Bruck, practiced with him in practice and also took over his extensive correspondence. In March 1740 he went to Strasbourg , where he attended Böckler's botanical lectures in the summer, trained as an obstetrician under Sachs, and thus combined Hommel's teaching in osteology and Eisenmann's in anatomy. He practiced surgical operations under Le Riches' direction. He stayed in Strasbourg for the winter of 1740/41, while on June 29, 1740 he had received his medical doctorate from Altdorf in his absence . He had written his inaugural dissertation under the title De usu venae sectionis in rarefactione massae sanguineae nimia (Altdorf 1739).

In May 1741 Pfann wanted to travel to Paris . Due to the outbreak of war riots and an illness from which he was slowly recovering, he had to leave Strasbourg at the request of his worried parents and, after visiting Molsheim , Colmar and other cities in Upper Alsace, his way back via Lauterbourg , Landau, Speyer , Mannheim and Darmstadt to Frankfurt compete. From there he made a study trip via Höchst to Wiesbaden , Schwalbach, Selters and Schlangenbad, where he visited medical institutions and baths. He then came back to Frankfurt via Bielerich and Mainz , where, as before in Mainz, he visited important sights and made acquaintance with scholars, including a skilled surgeon named Allmacher. With this he went via Hanau , Aschaffenburg , Würzburg and Kitzingen to Nuremberg, where they arrived in August 1741, but from there back to his birthplace Bruck.

Pfann was determined to take a position as a field doctor in the war of that time . But he gave up this idea again when he received a call to Erlangen in 1743. He became the third professor of medicine at the newly established university there and soon became famous as a teacher and general practitioner. That is why Count Franz Erwin von Schönborn often sought Pfann's advice in cases of illness, as did the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg, Johann Philipp Anton , in July 1750 during a mineral water cure in the Marquardsburg pleasure palace . In order to be able to take over the property and the practice of his father, who had died in Bruck, Pfann requested in September 1750 to be dismissed from his professorship, which was granted to him. However, various circumstances later induced him not to go to Bruck. With the character of a princely Brandenburg council, he remained as a general practitioner in Erlangen. On June 20, 1751 he was elected a member ( matriculation number 571 ) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Polyaenus II . In 1752 he became a physician with the garrison battalion stationed in Erlangen and on February 21, 1754, he became a real military physician with the character of a councilor. On December 1, 1760, he was again transferred to the medical professorship at the university. However, he no longer held lectures because Professor Delius did not grant him his former position in the faculty, but instead maintained priority. He died on June 16, 1762 at the age of 42.

Fonts

As a writer, Pfann made himself known primarily through his collection of strange cases, some of which had an impact on judicial and some practical medicine, along with some additions made up of physical and other medical matters, and a preface, such as would-be Physici, Practici and Surgeons have to behave when writing wound, dissection and disease reports (Nuremberg 1750). His strange message about two women killed by the poisonous fumes of the charcoal (Erlangen 1757) was also translated into Latin in 1761 under the title De perniciosissimo prunarum vapore . Pfann reported several articles worth reading in the Erlanger learned advertisements :

  • Impartial examination of whether and what kind of medical workers own the gemstones , 1744, No. 36, pp. 285-288 and No. 37, pp. 291-294.
  • Thoughts on the effects of the Specifici cephalici Michaelis, or the Dr. Michael's Hauptpulver , 1744, No. 39, pp. 309-312; No. 40, pp. 318-320; No. 42, pp. 333-336; No. 44, pp. 348-352.
  • Draft of some rules on how to behave in the preparation of Section Reports , 1746. No. 26, pp. 201-204.
  • Medical Concerns About Accused Child Murder , 1746, pp. 205-208.
  • Strange healing of a nine-year-old colon fracture , 1746, No. 33, pp. 157–161.
  • Well-founded expert opinion on a main wound that happened to be fatal , 1746, No. 34, pp. 165–172.
  • News from learned societies in general, and especially from the origin, the establishment and the other endeavors of the natural research society in Danzig , 1749, no. 17-23.
  • On the necessity of bloodletting in spring , 1749, p. 23.
  • Message How to Resist and Discover the Most Common Genera of Poison , 1749, No. 22, pp. 169–176.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d Pfann, Matthias Georg , in: Georg Wolfgang Augustin Fikenscher: Gelehrtes Fürstenthum Baireuth , Nuremberg 1804, 7th vol., P. 77 ff.
  2. ^ 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. 220 digitized
personal data
SURNAME Pfann, Matthias Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Polyaenus II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruck (Erlangen)
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1762