Paul Johann Friedrich Helmershausen

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House on Frauenplan in Weimar - from 1782 to 1789 and from 1792 onwards, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's home

Paul Johann Friedrich Helmershausen (* 1734 in Erfurt ; † June 20, 1820 in Weimar ) was a German physician and from 1771 to 1792 owner of the house on Frauenplan in Weimar, in the western half of which Johann Wolfgang von Goethe rented it from 1782 to 1789 lived.

Life

Paul Johann Friedrich Helmershausen was the son of the Weimar Consistorial Councilor Georg Friedrich Helmershausen (1684–1757) and his wife Sophia Philippina, née Treuner († 1771). He studied medicine at the Universities of Erfurt and Halle and worked after his doctorate as Dr. med. later as the Ducal Saxon Garrison Medicus in Weimar and as the Official Physician of Großrudestedt . In 1772 he was appointed to the council and in 1816 to the chief medical officer.

In 1771 Paul Johann Friedrich Helmershausen acquired the house on the Frauenplan in Weimar, built by his grandfather, the princely chamber commissioner, master cloth cutter, stocking installer and lieutenant Georg Caspar Helmershausen (1654–1716) in the period from 1707 to 1709 for the glory of God and to adorn the city , in the western half of which he took in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a tenant from 1782 to 1789. In 1792 the Ducal Chamber acquired the house on Frauenplan on behalf of Duke Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach and initially left it to Goethe as his official residence before it was donated to Goethe in 1794 by the Duke.

On November 11, 1768, Paul Johann Friedrich Helmershausen was registered under matriculation no. 711 elected a member of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Hygienus IV .

He was married to Sophia Regina Friederica, née Hartmann (1738 *), from 1758.

Fonts

  • Dissertatio Inavgvralis Medica De Diarrhoeis In Morbis Acvtis Salvtaribvs , Hering, Erfurt 1756 ( digitized version )
  • Observation of a particular illness in a woman of two and thirty years of age . In: New Hamburg magazine, or collected writings, on teaching and enjoying nature research and the pleasant sciences in general. Fifty-seventh piece, Holle, Leipzig 1771, pp. 244–255 ( digitized version )
  • Report of the dissection of a 34 year old patient . In: New Hamburg magazine, or collected writings, on teaching and enjoying nature research and the pleasant sciences in general. Fifty-seventh piece, Holle, Leipzig 1771, pp. 256–266 ( digitized version )

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 162 ( archive.org ).
  2. ^ Wendelin von Maltzahn: Three letters from Goethe to Duke Karl August. In: Bernhard Seuffert (Hrsg.): Vierteljahrschrift für Litteraturgeschichte, 1, Weimar 1888, p. 265 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Helmershausen, Paul Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and landlord of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
DATE OF BIRTH 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1820
Place of death Weimar