Moritz Naumann

MEA Naumann. Chalk lithograph by Adolf Hohneck 1840

Moritz Ernst Adolph Naumann (born October 7, 1798 in Dresden , †  October 19, 1871 in Bonn ) was a German physician and university professor.

Life

Moritz Naumann was a son of the composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann , his older brother was the mineralogist Carl Friedrich Naumann . He pursued his studies alternately at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and at the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1820 and taught as a private lecturer in 1824/25. In 1825 he went to Berlin as an associate professor, and finally in 1828 as a full professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . There he was rector of the university in 1842/43 and 1865/66 and director of the clinical institute between 1851 and 1864. In 1864 he resigned from the clinic. He died in Bonn in 1871.

Naumann held events on the history of medicine, medical geography, climatology and balneology and wrote numerous medical publications. His main work is the manual of the medical clinic. In the winter semester of 1835/36, Karl Marx enrolled in his lecture "Encyclopedia and Methodology of Medicine".

family

Naumann's children were:

• Emil Naumann (1827–1888), composer, church musician and music writer,
• Ida Naumann, later Becker (1832–1897), singer and composer.

Works (selection)

• Critical examination of the general laws of polarity . Adolph Wienbrack, Leipzig 1822 digitized
• About the boundaries between philosophy and science . Adolph Wienbrack, Leipzig 1823 digitized
• A few remarks about common feeling, in a healthy and in a diseased state . A. Wienbrack, Leipzig 1824 digitized
• About the ability of animals to move . A. Wienbrack, Leipzig 1824 digitized
• Manual of the medical clinic. 8 volumes, Berlin 1829–30, 2nd edition 1847
• Basics of the doctrine of contagion . Eduard WEber 1833 digitized
• Metaphysics in Physiology . Eduard Weber, Bonn 1848 digitized
• Mixed writings of physiological and psychological content . Eduard Weber, Bonn 1850 digitized
• Results and studies from the medical clinic in Bonn. I. Engelmann, Leipzig 1860 digitized
• Results and studies from the medical clinic in Bonn. II. Engelmann, Leipzig 1860 digitized
• Contributions to the opening or address of the tenth edition of the Dr. Ludwig Büchner wrote “Kraft und Stoff” . Weber, Bonn 1869

literature

• Naumann, Moritz Ernst Adolf . In: Poggendorff, Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of exact science , 2nd volume, Leipzig 1868
• Naumann, Moritz Ernst Adolf . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. An encyclopedia of general knowledge . 4. Completely redesigned. Twelfth volume. Nathusius - phlegmon. Leipzig 1888, p. 17
• Naumann, Moritz . In: Directory of professors and lecturers at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818-1968 . Edited by Otto Wenig. Bonn 1968, p. 208
• Manfred Schöncke: "A happy year in Bonn"? What we know about Karl Marx's first year at university . In: Carl Erich Vollgraf et al. (Ed.): Sources and limits of Marx's understanding of science. Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New series 1994. Argument, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-88619-745-X , pp. 239-255

Web links

• Overview of Moritz Naumann's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1824 to summer semester 1825)
• Moritz Naumann in the Internet Archive