Paul Gottlieb Werlhof

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Paul Gottlieb Werlhof, copper engraving after a painting by Dominicus van der Smissen , 1740

Paul Gottlieb Werlhof (born March 24, 1699 in Helmstedt ; † July 26, 1767 in Hanover ) was a German doctor and poet as well as a writer of the idiopathic thrombocytopenia named after him .

Life

Werlhof's first wife Johanna Christina, née Plohren (1703–1742)

Werlhof was the son of the legal scholar Johann Werlhof . He studied medicine at the University of Helmstedt with Brandanus Meibom (1695–1740), the son of his great-uncle Heinrich Meibom , with the professor of anatomy and surgery Alexander Christian Gackenholz († 1717), Andreas Julius Bötticher , Johann Carl Spies and Lorenz Heister (1683 -1758). After completing his studies, he moved to Peine in 1721 and worked there as a general practitioner for four years. 1723 he earned a doctorate at the University in Helmstedt .

In 1725 Werlhof moved to Hanover on the advice of personal physician August Johann von Hugo , took over the practice of the late Johann Andreas Plohr and married his daughter Johanna Christina (1703–1742). His skills as a doctor soon earned him great recognition. He had an extraordinarily high number of patients, including from higher social circles, and became one of the most famous doctors of his time in Europe, who was even consulted from Moscow and Rome . In 1729 he was appointed court medicus (after refusing an appointment to Helmstedt), in 1742 he was appointed royal personal physician and in 1760 as the successor to Hugo's first personal physician. He stayed in Hanover until his death. In 1733 he prepared a report for the new medical faculty. On his recommendation, Albrecht von Haller was appointed to Göttingen in 1736.

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Monument " designed by Johann Philipp Ganz and erected by Ziesenis in 1783 for Paul Gottlieb Werlhof on the St. Nikolai churchyard in front of Hanover ; Copper engraving (detail); VD 18 , Göttingen State and University Library

After the death of his first wife, in 1743 he married the widowed wife of the Professor of Law Johann Zacharias Hartmann (1695–1742) in Kiel, Sarah Elisabeth (1709–1768), née. Scriver, daughter of the Scriver budget council in Kiel. From this marriage came the future Hanoverian lawyer Wilhelm Gottfried Werlhof (1744-1832).

Werlhof was not only a gifted doctor, but an excellent poet. He wrote poems and hymns. Werlhof was a friend of Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), also a recognized doctor and poet. Werlhof's main work "Observationes de febris" (1st edition 1732) was related to alternating fever, whereby Werlhof propagated cinchona bark as a remedy for this clinical picture.

Honors

On January 12th, 1736 he was accepted as a member ( matriculation number 453 ) with the nickname Fabianus in the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and in 1751 he was elected as a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

After Werlhof is idiopathic thrombocytopenia as Crohn Werlhof named.

Writings and works

  • Observationes de febribus, praecipue intermittentibus et ex harum genere continuis etc. Hanover, 1732, 1745. Venice, 1757, 1764, 1784.
  • Cautiones medicae de limitandis laudibus et vituperiis morborum et remediorum. Hanover, 1734.
  • Disquisitio medica et philologica de variolis et anthracibus, signis differentiis, medelis disserit etc. Hannoverae, sumt. haered. Nicolai Foersteri, 1735.
  • Poems . 1749. 2nd edition, 1756.
  • Opera Medica . 3 volumes. Hannoverae, imp. frat. Helwingiorum, 1775-1776.

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Gottlieb Werlhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leaves for literary entertainment, Volume 2, p. 1032
  2. Udo Benzenhöfer : Paul Gottlieb Werlhof , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century , 1st edition 1995 CH Beck Munich pp. 377 + 378, medical dictionary. From antiquity to the present , 2nd edition 2001 Springer Heidelberg, Berlin, New York, pp. 329 + 330. ISBN 978-354-067529-7 .
  3. ^ Member entry by Paul Gottlieb Werlhof at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 22, 2017.
  4. Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 256.