Johann Carl Wilhelm Moehsen

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Johann Carl Wilhelm Moehsen (1771)
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Johann Carl Wilhelm Moehsen , also: Wilhelm Moehsen , (born May 9, 1722 in Berlin ; † September 22, 1795 ibid) was a German doctor and writer. He was the personal physician of Friedrich II. And member of the Berlin Enlightenment and the Secret Berlin Wednesday Society .

Life

Moehsen became a doctor at the Joachimsthal School in Berlin in 1742. In 1745 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1747 he became a member of the senior medical college and district physician of the Teltow district , from 1763 a member of the senior medical college in Berlin.

In 1766 he became a doctor at the cadet corps and at the knight academy in Berlin and from 1778 personal doctor of Friedrich II. ( Alte Fritz ) .

On December 7, 1786, Moehsen became the youngest full member in the medical department of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . He was one of the initiators of the secret Berlin Wednesday Society founded in 1782 .

His person and work are used for various research work on Brandenburg historiography and the history of science, for example his study of the fourfold suicide rate of soldiers in Berlin compared to civilians , broken down according to their regiments.

Moehsen also worked on the judicial crime against Lippold Ben Chluchim by reading from the court archives of the then personal physician Paul Luther , son of the reformer, on the basis of the protocols and original documents on the death of Elector Joachim II Hector , which unanimously had a discharge on the foot in combination with a sudden Name the common cold as the cause of death, which Lippold refuted allegations of poisoning.

JCW Moehsen was buried in a hereditary funeral in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Church Congregation in Berlin. The grave is located in Dept. 3/1 in the immediate vicinity of the cemetery entrance on Zossener Straße .

Fonts (selection)

  • Directory of a collection of portraits of mostly famous doctors. Christian Friedrich Himburg, Berlin 1771.
  • History of the sciences in the Mark Brandenburg, especially the science of medicine; from the earliest times to the end of the sixteenth century […]. George Jacob Decker, Berlin / Leipzig 1781; Reprint, reduced in size, by Georg Olms, Hildesheim / New York 1976.
  • Contributions to the history of science in the Mark Brandenburg from the earliest times to the end of the sixteenth century: I. Life of Leonhard Thurneissers zum Thurn, Churfürstl. brandenb. Personal physician. Contribution to the history of alchemy, as well as the sciences and arts, in the Mark Brandenburg. etc. II. Fragments on the history of surgery from 1417 to 1598, as well as to answer the question: whether the old connection between surgery and the barbers should be broken? III. Directory of the Dohm and collegiate donors, as well as monasteries and nunneries, which formerly flourished in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, or were donated by their sovereigns abroad. Published by George Jakob Decker, Berlin / Leipzig 1783 digitized ; Reprinted by Werner Fritsch Verlag, Munich 1976.
  • Reflections on the Berlin soldiers' suicides. Based on the manuscript from the materials of the Berliner Wednesday Society, edited by Hans-Uwe Lammel (= Finds. Volume 3). Wehrhahn, Hannover-Laatzen 2004, ISBN 3-932324-33-1 .

literature

  • Kinds murder and historiography. Medical forensic practice and interpretation of the Reformation in the second half of the 18th century using the example of Johann Carl Wilhelm Moehsen (1722-1795). In: Carsten cell (ed.): Sensible doctors. Hallesche Psychomedikiner and the beginnings of anthropology in the German-speaking Early Enlightenment. Tübingen 2001, pp. 200-219. (= Hallesche Contributions to the European Enlightenment, Vol. 19)
  • Michael Engel:  Moehsen, Johann Carl Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 623-625 ( digitized version ).
  • August Hirsch :  Moehsen, Johann Karl Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 79-81.
  • Aloys Henning: On the eye operations on the cantor and on the archdeacon of St. Thomas in Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach and Christoph Wolle. In: Würzburger medical history reports 17, 1998, pp. 227–250; here: pp. 228–231.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Knobloch : Mr. Moses in Berlin: On the trail of a philanthropist. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-596-12801-3 , p. 306. (Fischer Taschenbuch; No. 12801)
personal data
SURNAME Moehsen, Johann Carl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, personal physician of Friedrich II.
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1795
Place of death Berlin