Nikolaus Borner

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Nikolaus Börner (also Nicolai Börner , Nicolaus Börner , born January 27, 1693 in Schmieritz ; † September 12, 1760 in Neustadt an der Orla ) was a German pharmacist and physician who last worked as a general practitioner in Neustadt an der Orla.

Live and act

Nikolaus Börner did an apprenticeship as a pharmacist with the pharmacist Bernhard in Frankenhausen and after completing his training worked for a long time at the court and university pharmacist Voigt in Jena. After working in Frankfurt am Main, Strasbourg and Koblenz, he returned in 1721 after the death of his mother and studied medicine at the University of Jena. He received his doctorate on November 27, 1725 and then worked as a general practitioner in Neustadt an der Orla until the end of his life.

Börner was best known for his writings on paediatrics, some of which appeared in several editions until 1756.

On April 29, 1737 he was registered under the registration number. 470 elected a member of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Asterion II .

In 1751 he was appointed Imperial Count Palatine.

Nikolaus Börner was married to Sophie Regina, nee Wendler, daughter of the school principal David Wendler, on October 8, 1726. The couple had two children, a daughter and a son.

Fonts

  • Medicus Sui Ipsius, or his own doctor, in which instructions are given, according to reasonable hygienic principles, how everyone can maintain his health and share a long life with God . Blochberger, Franckfurt and Leipzig 1744 ( digitized )
  • Children's doctor, that is, teaching children's diseases, how to prevent, recognize and cure them. In which instead of a preliminary report is remembered what to observe in the business of fathering children and how a pregnant woman should behave if she wants to give birth to healthy children. The same as how long a child lingers in the mother's womb, and what must be observed at its birth. What else comes, what of the office and duty of a heb-nurse or woe-mother is necessary to remember? No less how much time a child is left on the mother's breast, and how it waited, also in what kind of such things should be drawn into the second or third year. In addition to the author's superior life circumstances . Blochberger, Franckfurt and Leipzig 1752 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 505 ( echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de digitized version ).
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 215 (archive.org)
  • Daniel Pfletscher, Günter Helmrich, Yvonne Jackel and Bernd Schneider: From personal to personality - Neustadt's big names . In: Neustadt an der Orla through the ages, 15, 2012, p. 2 ( PDF )

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personal data
SURNAME Borner, Nikolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borner, Nicolai; Börner, Nicolaus; Asterion II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1693
PLACE OF BIRTH Lubricating seat
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1760
Place of death Neustadt an der Orla