Peter von Heidenstam

Peter von Heidenstam

Peter von Heidenstam , also Petersen , (baptized August 14, 1708 in Heide ; † January 8, 1783 in Stockholm ) was a surgeon and physicist.

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Peter von Heidenstam was a son of the merchant and trader Hanß Peter (* approx. 1675; † probably 1729 in Heide) and his wife Christiane, presumably born Voss, who probably died in Heide in 1714. He learned the barber's trade from Matheus Tauerent, who was master of the Heide barber's office . In 1726 he passed the journeyman's examination. Then, as prescribed, he went on a hike and moved to Copenhagen via Lübeck . He trained as a journeyman in 1726 with the master of the local barber's office called Claessen.

In addition to his work at Claessen, von Heidenstamm received training in anatomy and surgery from Simon Crüger in the anatomical theater of the barbers' guild. Crüger rose ten years later to the general director of surgery in the Kingdom of Denmark. Von Heidenstam also attended lectures with Johannes de Buchwald . According to Swedish documents, he traveled to England, Spain and North Africa, possibly working as a ship surgeon.

Around 1730 von Heidenstam practiced as a journeyman of the barber surgeon Schnelle in Kiel. In 1734 he visited the Collegium Medicum in Heide, which was located there on the instructions of the Kiel administration in Gottorf. Here he passed an exam and enrolled as a student of medicine at the Collegium medico-chirurgicum in Berlin . In 1736, he was probably promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In 1737 the high princely government in Kiel appointed him Physicus von Neustadt .

The Lübeck prince-bishop Adolph Friedrich protected von Heidenstam, who got the position of the Kiel university physicist on February 18, 1744. His entry in the register of the university is dated July 14th of the same year. In 1743 von Heidenstam traveled to Sweden as Adolph Friedrichs' personal physician. After Adolph Friedrich became King of Sweden in 1751, von Heidenstam moved to Stockholm a year later and worked as the king's archiater .

In 1770 von Heidenstam was raised to the nobility and shortly afterwards a member of the Swedish knighthood. Until the end of his life he was also a member of the Collegium Medicum .

Von Heidenstam moved in the competition between the medical trade and academic training. During his time at Kiel University, he represented surgery. The only medical scientist at the time was Gottlieb Heinrich Kannegießer . Von Heidenstam achieved little at the University of Kiel.

family

Christina Groen, the second wife

Von Heidenstam's first marriage in Altenkrempe in 1738 was Christina Magdalena Weber, whose father Christian Weber (* 1680 in Bischofswerder in Saxony, † 1764 in Krusendorf ) worked as a pastor in Altenkrempe and was married to Susanne Ursula, née Finke. In his second marriage he married Christina Groen (* 1734 in Stockholm; † 1769 ibid) in Stockholm in 1761, whose father worked as a wholesale merchant in Stockholm and was married to Margret Hovet.

16 children were born from both marriages. Of these, the following should be emphasized from the first marriage:

• Ernst Joachim Magnus (born April 20, 1745 in Kiel , † August 17, 1789 in Stockholm). He worked as a Dr. med. and later became the personal physician of the Swedish king.
• Gerhard Johann Balthasar (born June 14, 1747 in Kiel, † May 22, 1803 in Stockholm). He became the Swedish ambassador to the Porte in Constantinople. He was also considered an important orientalist.

Werther Verner von Heidenstam (1763-1852) came from the second marriage. He founded a younger line of the von Heidenstams. Nobel laureate Carl Gustav Verner von Heidenstam was one of his grandchildren .

literature

• Dietrich Korth: Heidenstam, Peter von . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, pp. 151–152