Michael Morgenbesser

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Michael Morgenbesser (born July 24, 1714 in Breslau , Principality of Breslau ; † June 30, 1782 in Breslau) was a Silesian doctor , garrison doctor , city physician in Breslau, assessor and dean of the medical college there and member of the Leopoldina academy of scholars .

Life

Michael Morgenbesser was a son of the Breslau pharmacist Michael Morgenbesser and his wife Anna Susanna. He was first tutored by private tutors before going to high school. After graduating from high school in St. Maria Magdalena , he enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1733 for the subjects of medicine, German literature and philosophy . The course was made possible by a grant from the Wroclaw City Council. As a pupil of Johann Christoph Gottsched , who founded the German Society in Leipzig on May 1, 1737 , he became a member of the Society and figured before Albrecht von Haller . Morgenbesser became acquainted with the important Halle doctor Friedrich Hoffmann . After receiving his doctorate in 1738, he went on study trips to Wittenberg, Helmstedt, Hanover, Marburg, Leiden and Paris. At first he dealt with anatomy and gave lectures on osteology . Until the end of the Second Silesian War in 1745 he worked as a garrison doctor in field hospitals . In 1747 he became a city physician in Breslau, where he also treated people suffering from the plague. In 1754 he was admitted to the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy. His academic nickname was DEXIUS II. In 1756 he dealt with vaccinations and had an anatomical theater built in Breslau . Because of a broken leg in 1758 he stayed in Bad Warmbrunn for a cure in 1758 . On June 30, 1782, he died of a stroke . In the same year, an obituary by Johann Ephraim Scheibel was published in Breslau : memorial writing on Mr. D. Michael Morgenbesser of the Royal Prussian Collegii Medici et Sanitatis Breslau departments Decanum, Guarnisons-Medicum and Ober-Stadt-Physicum zu Breslau, the Kayserliche Reichs- Akademie Naturae Curiosorum member .

family

Morgenbesser was married to a daughter of the Prussian court councilor and doctor Johann Siegmund Hahn . His successor at the Medical College was his son Johann Gottfried Morgenbesser, who was also a professor of anatomy. The son of Johann Gottfried Morgenbesser, Michael Morgenbesser, was born in 1782 in Breslau, the year his grandfather died, and received his first name. The young Michael Morgenbesser attended the Elisabethanisches Gymnasium in Breslau and studied theology in Halle from 1801. In 1804 he returned to Breslau and in July 1806 took over the prorectorate at the Lutheran school in Groß Glogau. In 1811 he was elected as the successor to Georg Samuel Bandtke by the laudable magistrate of Wroclaw as rector of the School of the Holy Spirit, which was attached to the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Wroclaw.

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  1. ↑ digitized version
  2. ^ Norbert Conrads (ed.): The tolerated university. 300 Years of the University of Breslau 1702–2002 , exhibition catalog, Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, p. 218.
  3. ↑ Michael Morgenbesser: History of the hospital and the school of the Holy Spirit as well as the library of St. Bernardine in Breslau. In memory of the 600-year duration of the hospital , written by Michael Morgenbesser, with a copper, Stadt = und Universitäts = Buchdruckerei, Breslau 1814, p. 40.

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SURNAME Morning better, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Silesian doctor and member of the Leopoldina
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw . Principality of Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1782
Place of death Wroclaw