Peter Jessen

This article is about the veterinarian Peter Jessen. For other people see Peter Willers Jessen .

Hans Peter Jessen buoy (* 5. March 1801 in Katharinenheerd , † May 21st ^{. Jul} / 2. June  1875 ^greg. In Tartu ) was a German veterinarian.

Life

Peter Jessen was a son of Peter Jessen (born March 26, 1770 in Meldorf ; † July 15, 1826 in Eichede ) and his wife Henriette Dorothea Auguste, née Schumacher (born April 16, 1771 in Kiel ; † December 22, 1826 in Eichede ). The father worked as a pastor in Katharinenheerd until 1811 and then moved to Eichede. His mother's father, Theodor Carl Andreas Schumacher, who was married to Engel Lampe, worked as a wig maker in Kiel.

Jessen attended the village school in Katharinenheerd and then received private lessons from his father. From 1819 he studied at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen under the direction of Erik Nissen Viborg . After graduating in 1823, he worked briefly as a practicing veterinarian in Oldesloe , which he left the same year.

A Russian officer who had checked stallions in the area of ​​Jessen's practice recommended Yessen Novgorod as a new area of ​​activity. Jessen initially worked there as a veterinarian for the guard cavalry and the imperial stables. In 1839 he passed an examination to become a veterinary surgeon. When a veterinary school was opened in Dorpat in 1848 , Jessen took over the position of head and director of the clinic. He gave up the post of director in 1858 and was appointed professor at the same time. He continued to run the clinic. In 1873 the veterinary school was upgraded to a veterinary institute, at which Jessen continued to teach as a full professor.

Working as a veterinarian

Thanks to his relatively good education at the University of Copenhagen, Jessen was able to make a career in Russia. In 1840 he joined the Committee for Veterinary Medicine and inspected stud farms on its behalf and controlled their organization. He also advised the government on disease control issues. Until 1883 he taught at the Dorpater Veterinary School in German, then in Russian. He spoke about internal and external horse diseases and shoeing.

In 1858 Jessen traveled for a long time through Germany, France and Scandinavian countries. He spoke to experts there about issues relating to the epidemic police. He also visited and discussed the establishment of several schools.

Works

In his writings, Jessen dealt in particular with the rinderpest , which, due to numerous wars, had spread from south-east Russia to western Europe for more than 150 years. He wrote about the cattle vaccination in terms of the cowpox vaccination modeled on Edward Jenner and the organization of vaccination centers. He also described how tough steppe cattle should be crossed.

In the field of equine diseases, Jessen dealt with snot , maling , shoeing and diseases of the hooves. He also described how the education system for veterinarians could be expanded. As an author he participated in the magazine for the whole of animal medicine published by Ernst Friedrich Gurlt and Carl Heinrich Hertwig .

Honors

Jessen held the title of Imperial Russian Council of State and received several high medals. He was also a member of learned Russian societies. During the 100th anniversary of the Copenhagen Veterinary School, he was appointed commander of the Dannebrog .

family

Jessen had a total of three wives: around 1827 he married Louise Friederike Margarethe Berghofer (born June 17, 1809 in Itzehoe ; † November 27, 1828 in St. Petersburg), whose father was Itzehoe citizen and leaseholder of the town hall cellar there. A son from this marriage was Ludwig Jessen (born April 27, 1828 in St. Petersburg, † November 6, 1888 there). This last worked as a senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Secret Council and wrote poems under the pseudonym “Ludwig v. East".

After the death of his first wife, Jessen married Caroline Wilhelmine Heyse on April 26, 1831, who presumably came from Oldenburg and died in St. Petersburg in 1838.

His third marriage was on May 16, 1858 in St. Petersburg, Maria Amananda Berghofer, widowed Querfurth (born January 9, 1818 in Itzehoe), who was a sister of his first wife. From this marriage came the Rear Admiral Karl Johann Peter Jessen , who took part in the sea ​​battle at Tsushima .

Other children of Jessen are not documented.

literature

• Dietrich Korth: Jessen, Peter . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 4. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1976, pp. 123-124

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Peter Jessen. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital