Moritz von Willich

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Moritz (Ulrich) Willich , from 1786 von Willich (baptized February 18, 1750 in Zirkow ; † November 5, 1810 in Bergen auf Rügen ) was a doctor, first rural physicist in the Principality of Rügen and royal Swedish personal physician .

Life

He came from the Willich theologian family from the Mark Brandenburg and was the son of the evangelical pastor Philipp Georg Willich (1720–1787) in Sagard , who was raised to the imperial nobility in 1786 .

Willich studied medicine at the Universities of Greifswald and Göttingen (enrollment April 27, 1775) and was in Göttingen on December 11, 1776 as a doctor of medicine doctorate . From 1781 he was an assessor of the Royal Swedish Health College, doctor and obstetrician, the first urban and rural physicist in the former Principality of Rügen, based in Bergen on Rügen , where he was also head of the hospital . Together with his younger half-brother Heinrich Christoph von Willich , he founded the "Brunnen-, Bade- und Amusement Establishment" in Sagard in 1794 as the first spa operation on the island of Rügen , which only existed until 1806 because of the coalition wars and the French occupation. He also worked there as a spa doctor (fountain doctor) and prescribed drinking cures as well as hot and cold, spray, drip, knee and foot baths (see: Balneology ).

He wrote several medical papers.

Willich was the father of Ehrenfried von Willich (1777-1807), a military preacher in Stralsund, Sweden .

Works (selection)

  • News from the Gesundbrunnen in Sagard on Jasmund , Bergen 1795.
  • Excursion to the island of Rügen through Mecklenburg and Pomerania , Berlin 1797

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland : Hufeland's Journal der practical Heilkunde , Volume 21 (1805), page 180 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Frank William Peter Dougherty: The Correspondence of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach , Volume 1, Page 203, in: Brosamen zur Blumenbach Research (Volume 2), Verlag Norbert Klatt Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-928312-20-0 ( excerpt )
  3. ↑ Herbert Ewe: Rügen , page 31, Hinstorff Verlag, 1977 ( excerpt )
  4. ^ Werner Busch: Caspar David Friedrich. Aesthetics and Religion , page 130, Verlag CH Beck, 2003, ISBN 3-406-50308-X ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Willich, Moritz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willich, Moritz Ulrich von (full name); Willich, Mauritius Ulricus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Doctor, first rural physician from Rügen, royal Swedish personal physician
DATE OF BIRTH baptized February 18, 1750
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1810
Place of death Mountains on Rügen