Philipp Adolph Böhmer
Philipp Adolph Böhmer (born August 26, 1711 in Halle , † October 30, 1789 in Berlin ) was a German professor of medicine , anatomist and obstetrician and personal physician to King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia .
origin
Philipp Adolph Böhmer belonged to the Böhmer / von Boehmer family of lawyers , which in the 18th and 19th centuries belonged to the so-called Pretty Families in Kurhannover and in the early Kingdom of Hanover . He was the son of Justus Henning Böhmer and Eleonore Rosine Stützing (1679–1739) and the brother of the legal scholars Georg Ludwig Böhmer , Johann Samuel Friedrich von Böhmer and Karl August von Böhmer .
Live and act
From 1732 Philipp Adolph Böhmer studied medicine with Friedrich Hoffmann and Johann Heinrich Schulze at the University of Halle , which was founded in 1694 and is now the Martin Luther University of Halle. After his doctorate, which he had completed at the same time as his older brother Georg Ludwig's doctorate in both rights, on January 29, 1738, he studied in Paris with Gregoire the Younger and then in Strasbourg . After his return to Germany in 1739, he initially took over both the office of city physician in Eisleben and the appointment of personal physician at the court of Saxony-Weimar. Finally, in 1741, Böhmer was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the University of Halle as the successor to Johann Friedrich Cassebohm , and in 1769 was promoted to First Professor, Rector of the Medical Academy of this university and was twice Vice-Rector of the Alma Mater in 1756/57 and 1765/66 .
Due to his excellent performance, but perhaps also benefited by the good relations of his second wife, the divorced chamberlain Countess von Wartensleben, Phillip Adolph Böhmer was appointed his personal physician by King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia from 1787. Böhmer was only able to hold this position for less than two years, as he died in 1789. In addition to his anatomical studies and work, Philipp Adolph Böhmer was also practically and scientifically active in many areas of medicine, particularly in the field of gynecology . For example, he had written a remarkable treatise in the compendium of the English gynecologist Richard Manningham from 1746, in which he explained the use of the "Gregoire forceps " for the first time in Germany .
In 1744 Böhmer was elected to the Leopoldina ; in 1752 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. From 1755 he was an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
His grave is on Halle's Stadtgottesacker (arch 78).
family
Philipp Adolph Böhmer was first married to Johanna Dorothea Naumann (1718–1761), daughter of the judge Johann Christoph Naumann, with whom he had four children. In 1786 and 25 years after the death of his wife, Böhmer married Maria Sophie Caroline von Brandenstein (1739–1789), who divorced her husband, Chamberlain Friedrich Wilhelm von Wartensleben (1728–1798), in 1783. Philipp Adolph Böhmer and his family lived in the stately building inherited from his father at Grosse Märkerstrasse number 5 in Halle.
Works (selection)
- Observationum anatomicarum rariorum fasciculus alter notabilia circa uterum humanum continens cum figuris ad vivum expressis . Halae Magdeburgicae: Apud Joannem Justinum Gebaverum, 1756.
- De usu et praestantia forcipes Anglicanae in partu disticili , discussion of artistic abstetricariae compendium of Richard Manningham1746; First detailed description of the Gregoire forceps
Literature and Sources
- August Hirsch: Böhmer, Philipp Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 81.
- Robert Herrlinger: Böhmer, Philipp Adolph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 392 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Bibliography in the catalog of the Freiburg University Library
- Böhmer, Philipp Adolph. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Supplement 4, Leipzig 1754, columns 40-42.
- Treatise on Manninghams Compendium ( Memento from February 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Hans-Thorald Michaelis : “ History of the von Boehmer family - in continuation of the genealogy, written by Hugo Erich von Boehmer in 1892, of the Boehmer and von Boehmer families, as well as some of the families related by marriage to them. “, Rheinische Verlagsanstalt, Bonn-Bad Godesberg (1978); 247 pages; Private archive and in the Library of Congress : 83230476
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina: Structure and membership. As of January 1, 1987. With an alphabetical list of members 1652–1986 . Halle (Saale) 1987.
Web links
- Philipp Adolph Böhmer in the joint catalog of the joint library network
- Philipp Adolph Böhmer as a member of the predecessor academies of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- Entry on Philipp Adolph Böhmer in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Pretty families. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 310.
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Philipp Adolph Böhmer. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed July 30, 2015 (in Russian).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Böhmer, Philipp Adolph |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boehmer, Philipp Adolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German human medicine, professor of medicine and anatomy, personal physician |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1711 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1789 |
Place of death | Berlin |