Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring

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PHG Möhring

Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring (* July 21, 1710 in Jever , Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst ; † October 28, 1792 ibid) was a Frisian , zerbster, German doctor , botanist and ornithologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Möhring ".

Life

Möhring was the oldest of eight children of pastor Gottfried Victor Möhring from Zerbst and his wife, Sophia Katharina Töpken, daughter of the clerk Gerhard Hermann Töpken from Kniphausen . At the time of his birth his father was the rector of the Jever provincial school, later then pastor in Wüppels (from 1729) and Neuende (from 1734). It was named after his grandfather, the Zerbst archdeacon and court preacher Paul Heinrich Möhring .

After attending the school in Jever run by his father, Möhring went to study medicine at the " Gymnasium Academicum " in Danzig in 1729 , where he was particularly impressed by the anatomist Johann Adam Kulmus (1689–1745) and the natural historian Jacob Theodor Klein . He obtained his doctorate on September 15, 1733 at the University of Wittenberg with the dissertation De Inflammationis Sanguineae Theorica Mechanica . Then he returned to Jever and settled there as a general practitioner. Prince Johann Ludwig II of Anhalt-Zerbst , whose property also included the Jever rulership , appointed him his personal medicus and councilor in 1743 . In June of the same year Möhring married Juliane Damm in Jever. The couple had four children including:

  • Heinrich Gerhard (1751; † October 12, 1810), councilor and court medic
  • Nikolaus Laurenz († after 1811)
  • Johann Ludwig (1760-1835)

Möhring went blind at the age of 68, but continued his practice with the help of his son and nephew until his death.

Researcher

Möhring has been involved in botany and ornithology since his studies . He corresponded with doctors and naturalists such as Wolther van Doeveren , Albrecht von Haller , Lorenz Heister , Carl von Linné , Hans Sloane , Christoph Jacob Trew and Paul Gottlieb Werlhof . In addition to his medical practice, he wrote medical, botanical and ornithological works. His best-known work is the Avium Genera , a book on the systematics of birds. While the first edition printed in Germany from 1752 is "Vor-Linnaeisch" and thus irrelevant for the zoological nomenclature , a Dutch translation ( Geslachten der Vogelen ) did not appear until 1758 and is therefore of importance for the name priority.

Works

  • Primae Lineae Horti privati ​​in proprium et amicarum usum per triennium exstructi . Oldenburg, 1736.
  • Historiae medicinales . Amsterdam, 1739. Digitized
  • Mytulorum quorundam venenum et ab eo natas papulas cuticulares epistola . Bremen 1742.
  • Avium Genera . Aurich and Bremen, 1752.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hülfsverein the Povincialschule (ed.): Contributions to the special history Jever country . Jever 1853. S. XVI (16), Sp II
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 5, 2015 (in Russian).

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personal data
SURNAME Möhring, Paul Heinrich Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diocles II
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, botanist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH Jever
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1792
Place of death Jever