Peter Benedict Christian Graumann

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Peter Benedict Christian Graumann (born November 23, 1752 in Waren (Müritz) , † October 5, 1803 in Bützow ) was a German doctor .

Life

Peter Benedict Christian Graumann was the son of a preacher who worked in Waren in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . He received his first lessons from his father and the preacher Schramm in Lübs . Then he attended the school in Güstrow , where he had the Vice- Principal Hollmann and Professor Pries as his teachers. In 1771 he moved to the University of Göttingen , where he studied medicine . In addition to the medical lectures of the well-known Professors Richter, Strohmeyer, Wrisberg , Murray and Baldinger, he also attended philosophical courses.

After completing his studies, Graumann returned to his homeland to prepare for a longer trip to further his education. Soon afterwards he went to Vienna via Berlin , Dresden and Prague , where he spent several months exclusively dealing with the practice in the hospitals, whereby dealing with the doctors Quarin and Collin was particularly useful. From Vienna he traveled back to his fatherland via Hungary and earned his medical doctorate by defending a doctoral thesis ( Dissertatio inauguralis continens observationes physico-medicas et sententias , Bützow 1776) , after having already obtained a master's degree in philosophy.

Thereupon Graumann settled down as a general practitioner in Waren, but was appointed to Bützow as an associate professor of medicine in 1777 . The following writings fall during this period of its effectiveness:

  • Considerations on the general sequence of stages of natural bodies , Rostock 1777
  • Brevis introductio in historiam naturalem animalium mammalium, in usum auditorum , Rostock 1778
  • Public speech about the joy of the country at the birth of the noble Prince Friedrich Ludwig von Mecklenburg , Rostock 1778

In 1779, because he did not like his position, Graumann moved to Rostock in order to establish himself as a general practitioner in this city and at the same time to deal with writing in his field. In particular, he devoted great care to the Diet weekly for all classes (Rostock 1781–83), which he published at the time, and saw with satisfaction that his efforts were recognized. The quackery of his fellow citizens, which appeared without his name, was useful, written by the author as a warning and as a warning (Rostock 1783, two issues). The treatise on the French disease of cattle and the harmlessness of the meat of such animals, published on the orders of his sovereign, was of general importance (Rostock and Leipzig 1784). In it, Graumann spoke out against the view, which was partly still held at the time, that tuberculosis in cattle was a form of syphilis .

When Graumann was appointed full professor of medicine in Bützow in 1784 and at the same time appointed physicist for several offices, he gladly returned to the subject, something he always felt a great inclination to. He also held natural history and philosophical lectures because there was a lack of medically interested listeners. During his second job in Bützow he wrote his treatise on the disadvantage of the cemeteries located within the cities ( Dissertatio de libitina in urbibus toleranda , Bützow 1786). At that time, carrying out this view still had to contend with many obstructive prejudices. Later he seems to have renounced his literary efficacy, because there is only one medical history worked out by him (in Baldinger's New Magazine for Doctors , Vol. 10, p. 127 ff.).

When the university was later relocated, Graumann stayed in Bützow as a doctor and district physician. There he became court doctor and personal physician in 1790 . He died in Bützow on October 5, 1803 at the age of almost 51.

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personal data
SURNAME Graumann, Peter Benedict Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Goods (Müritz)
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1803
Place of death Bützow