Melchior Conrad Cramer

Melchior Conrad Cramer (born August 8, 1672 in Ansbach ; † September 1, 1760 ibid) was a German doctor, first body medicine and Hochfürstl. Brandenburg-Onolzbacher Privy Council in Ansbach (Onolzbach = Ansbach) and member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina .

Live and act

family

Cramer was born as the son of the bath and surgeon Johann Conrad Cramer (1643-1718) and his wife Euphrosine (1642-1721) in Ansbach. Paternal grandfather was the Bader from Wettringen Conrad Cramer (1608–1760). Melchior Conrad Cramer married Katharina Reisenleiter (1668–1736) in Schwabach in 1698 . Her first marriage was to Christoph Martin Köhler , Vicar of Wallenrod in Schwabach, from the old Crailsheimer Köler family, from which Friedrich Eltester (1779–1634) and the Textors and Goethes also emerged.

From the marriage of Melchior Conrad Cramer with his wife Katharina, the later court, chamber and landscape councilor in Ansbach Johann Friedrich Cramer (1706–1768) emerged, the father of the later court counselor in Glogau Carl Christoph Cramer (1750–1827). Johann Friedrich Cramer was married to Sabina Rosina Heberer (1710–1767), the daughter of Johann Wolfgang Heberer (1675–1730), consultant and syndic in Weißenburg in Bavaria.

Life and meaning

Melchior Conrad Cramer studied medicine at the University of Altdorf and received his doctorate in 1695 under the professor of anatomy, chemistry and botany in Altdorf Johann Moritz Hoffmann (1653–1727) with a dissertation on dropsy . In 1706 he was appointed personal physician to the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Wilhelm Friedrich (1668–1723) and also exercised this office with his future wife, Princess Christiane Charlotte von Württemberg-Winnental (1694–1729) and his son Karl Wilhelm Friedrich ( called the Wilde Margrave ).

After the death of Margrave Wilhelm Friedrich, the young Margrave Karl Wilhelm Friedrich, who was under the reign of his mother until he was of legal age, went on a gentlemanly trip to France for several months from April 1728 , where in particular the university town of Angers and the capital Paris as well as the court of Versailles were visited. The margrave was accompanied by the privy councilor and court marshal Johann Freiherr von Brehmer as court master and head of the delegation, a gentleman von Nostiz as the traveling cavalier, the archivist Strebel as secretary, the former pastor of Schalkhausen and later confidante of the margrave as well as for the social care and dignified princely representation Dean and pastor of Uffenheim Jacob Friedrich Georgii (1697–1762) as travel preacher and informant as well as Cramer's personal physician. The last companions in particular were chosen to support the prince as much as possible in an instructive and instructive manner, especially since Angers was attending the university.

In 1729 Cramer became a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, which was founded in 1700 with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ' significant participation as the Electoral Brandenburg Society of Sciences . It is the predecessor of the current Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . On January 28, 1733, with the academic surname Zopyrus, he was elected a member ( matriculation no. 440 ) of the Leopoldina , the oldest scientific and medical learned society in the German-speaking area and the oldest permanent natural research academy in the world. In 1738 he became a board member of the special medical college of this academy. In 1757 he was appointed to the secret council.

Fonts

• Johann Moritz Hoffmann, Melchior Conrad Cramer: Diluvium microcosmi particulare, he disputatio medica publica de hydrokephalō. Altdorfium, 1695 ( full text in the Google book search).

literature

• Hans Joachim Jörs: Family research Cramer. In: Die Taube: Family sheet for the members of the Hofrat Sack'schen Foundation. No. 139, 1968, pp. 1500-1501.
• Hans Krauss: The personal physicians of the Ansbach margraves, family history writings. Published by the Society for Family Research in Franconia, registered office in Nuremberg, Neustadt ad Aisch, 1941, p. 20 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Family website of the Eltester family, Eltester a Thuringian-Prussian family, accessed online on November 15, 2014 Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Annual report of the historical association in the Rezat district . tape 3 . Riegel & Wiessner, 1832, p. 44 ( full text in Google Book Search).
3. ^ Website of the Verein der Freunde Triesdorf und Umgebung e. V., history, keyword: Famous people, Jacob Friedrich Georgii - The Familiar of Margrave Christian Friedrich Carl Alexander von Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth, with further references to travel, online accessed on 17 November 2014 [1]
4. ^ Directory of members of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities accessed online on November 15, 2014 [2]
5. ^ Member entry of Melchior Conrad Cramer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 17, 2014.
6. ^ Annual report of the historical association in the Rezat district . tape 3 . Riegel & Wiessner, 1832, p. 37 ( full text in Google Book Search).