Nicolaus Anton Friedreich

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Nicolaus Anton Friedreich (born February 24, 1761 in Würzburg ; † September 5, 1836 there ) was a German physician.

Friedreich studied medicine in Würzburg, Erlangen and Göttingen and then worked as a medical carer in the orphanage and foundling house and at the aristocratic seminary in Würzburg. He received his doctorate in 1788 under the professor and dean Adam Andreas Senfft (1740–1795) and in 1795 professor of medicine at the University of Würzburg . From 1806 he was the chief physician of the Juliusspital . Appointed royal councilor in 1818, Friedreich went into early retirement in 1819 due to illness. In 1824 he retired. He died almost blind in 1836.

He was the father of the forensic doctor Johann Baptist Friedreich (1796–1862) and the grandfather of the pathologist Nicolaus Friedreich (1825–1882).

Works (selection)

  • De paralysi musculorum faciei rheumatici . Wurzburg 1797.
  • Advantages of the abdominal stitch in ascites. A program as an invitation to his clinical classes in the winter semester of 1816–1817. Wuerzburg 1816.
  • Plan to establish an institution for epileptics . Wuerzburg 1819.
  • Medicinal programs. Wuerzburg 1824.
  • Nicolaus Anton Friedreich and Hermann Lebert : Diseases of the heart: Diseases of the blood and lymph vessels . Enke, Erlangen 1867.

literature

  • Jochen Frühinsfeld: Nicolaus Anton Friedreich: First description of the so-called rheumatic facial paralysis. CV and appreciation. Medical dissertation in Würzburg 1983.
  • August Hirsch:  Friedreich, Nicolaus Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 400 f.
  • Henning Bärmig: The personal bibliographies of the professors who taught at the Medical Faculty of the Alma Mater Julia zu Würzburg from 1582 to 1803 with biographical information. Medical dissertation, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1969, p. 48 (on Adam Andreas Senfft ) and 75.
  • Werner E. Gerabek : Friedreich, Nikolaus Anton. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 441.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner E. Gerabek: Friedreich, Nikolaus Anton. In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. 2005, p. 441.
personal data
SURNAME Friedreich, Nicolaus Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedreich, Nikolaus Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1836
Place of death Wurzburg