Michael Friedländer (medical doctor)

Michael Friedländer (* 1767 in Königsberg ; † April 4, 1824 in Paris ) was a German physician .

Life

Michael Friedländer was the eldest son of the merchant Meyer Friedländer (* 1745 in Königsberg; † November 22, 1808 in Hanover ) and his first wife Goldea (* 1745; † November 22, 1806), daughter of Meyer Michael David († 1799). He was the grandson of the merchant and banker Joachim Moses Friedländer (* 1712 in Zülz , † 1776 in Königsberg); his uncle was the silk manufacturer David Friedländer . His siblings were:

• David Meyer Joachim Friedländer (born June 23, 1769 in Königsberg; † October 9, 1825 there), married to Bona (Bune Brune) (* 1775 in Königsberg; † August 17, 1836 in Dresden ), daughter of Wolff Mendel Oppenheim (1753 –1828), negotiator and banker ;
• Rebecca, called Blümchen (* 1770 in Königsberg; † 1838), married to Samuel Wolff Friedländer (1764–1838);
• Josef Friedländer (* 1774 † 1846), married to Betty, b. Goldschmitt;
• Hindel Friedländer (* 1775; † unknown)
• Johanna Friedländer (* 1775; † 1864), married to Bernhard Lippmann;
• Arabella Bella Friedländer (* 1781; † 1851);
• Heimann Maximilian Friedländer, later Friedholm (* 1787; † 1830), married to Henriette, b. Blue skirt.

He was brought up at home, together with his siblings David, Joseph and Rebecca, by the Jewish enlightener Isaac Euchel , who also published the first modern Hebrew magazine, the monthly Hame'assef , with a German-language supplement under the name The Collector . Because he wanted to prepare for science, he enrolled on October 15, 1782 at the Artistic Faculty of the University of Königsberg, his teachers at the time included Immanuel Kant , the polymath Karl Gottfried Hagen and the general superintendent Johann Ernst Schulz . In 1787 he began studying medicine and initially attended the University of Berlin , then went to the University of Göttingen and later to the University of Halle .

On March 17, 1791 , he received his doctorate from the University of Halle. med. and then undertook a three-year journey through Holland , England , Scotland , there he stayed for several months in Edinburgh , Germany , Italy and Switzerland ; During the trip he mainly visited the local hospitals and hospitals and made connections with medical scholars. During this time he shared his experiences in several journals.

1799 Michael Friedlander was one of the first physicians that the smallpox vaccine to Berlin brought after Edward Jenner modern vaccination against smallpox had developed.

Because he had no prospect of a public position in Königsberg due to his Jewish origins and also because almost all connections to France had been severed due to political developments, he made the decision in 1800 to settle down in Paris and was also the family doctor there the writer Germaine de Staël in the last years of her life.

Writing

He remained connected to Germany by editing the journal French Annals for general natural history, physics, chemistry, physiology and their non-profit applications together with Professor Christoph Heinrich Pfaff , and he also wrote for the journals of Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland as well as other German and French journals medical newspapers. He wrote articles for the Journal de l'Education par Guizot and the Dictionnaire des sciences médicales and was also a contributor to the Biographie universelle and the Révue encyclopédique . He also wrote essays for the supplement The Collector by Isaac Euchel.

In 1815 he published his work De l'Education physique de l'homme , which was translated into German in 1819 by FE Oehler as On the physical education of people and was published in Leipzig .

Memberships

• Michael Friedländer was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris.

Fonts (selection)

• Dissertatio inauguralis medica de calore corporis humani aucto ejusque medela . Halae: Grunert, 1791.
• Draft of a history of the poor and poor institutions . Leipzig, 1804.
• Experiments in medicine . Leipzig 1804.
• Exposition du système cranologique de M. Gall: presented à la Societé de médecine . Paris 1806.
• Collection of observations and facts concerning the skin-tan (croup), translated from and edited by the French originals . Tübingen: Cotta, 1808.
• De l'éducation physique de l'homme . Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, 1815.
• Observations relative à la lettre de M. Friedlander sur l'état actuel du magnétisme en Allemagne . Paris, Dentu, 1817.
• About human physical education . Translated from the French by Eduard Oehler. Leipzig 1819.
• Bibliography méthodique des ouvrages publiés en Allemagne, sur les pauvres: précédée d'un coup d'oeil historique sur les pauvres, les prisons, les hopitaux, et les institutions de bienfaisance de ce pays . Paris: Imprimerie de J. Smith, 1822.

Literature (selection)

• Michael Friedländer . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 2nd year, 1824, 2nd issue. Ilmenau Voigt, 1826. P. 749 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GEDBAS: Meyer FRIEDLÄNDER. Retrieved July 5, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Andreas Kennecke: Isaac Abraham Euchel: Architect of the Haskala . S. 42. Wallstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0200-6 ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2019]).
3. ↑ Monika Richarz, Adolf Leschnitzer: The entry of the Jews into the academic professions: Jewish students and academics in Germany 1678-1848 . S. 58. Mohr Siebeck, 1974, ISBN 978-3-16-835162-7 ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2019]).
4. ↑ Immanuel Kant: Kant's collected writings . S. LXX. Walter de Gruyter, 1997, ISBN 978-3-11-015130-5 ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2019]).
5. ^ Intelligence sheet of the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung from 1791 . No. 71 v. June 4, 1791. in the expedition of this newspaper, 1791 ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2019]).
6. ↑ History of the Israelites from the time of the Maccabeans to our day . 9. Volume p. 92 f. Berlin 1828 ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2019]).