Philipp Heinrich Gerhard Petersen

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Philipp Heinrich Gerhard Petersen (born April 6, 1749 in Bergzabern , † April 13, 1794 in Homburg ) was a German medic .

Life

Philipp Heinrich Gerhard Petersen devoted himself to studying pharmacology in Göttingen and Strasbourg . By defending his dissertation inaug. sistens casus ischuriae, ex materia podagrica ad vesicam dilatata (1772) he obtained the degree of doctor of medicine in Strasbourg . Then famulierte it in Kusel and was already ten years later Oberamtsphysikus this city and Leibmedikus for the ducal residence Karlsberg and Jägersburg. He was in the service of Duke Karl II August von Pfalz-Zweibrücken . In July 1793, French revolutionary troops invaded the duchy, and on April 13, 1794, Petersen died at the age of 45 as a city and official physicist in Homburg im Westrich , without leaving any descendants from his marriage to the daughter of a chamber councilor from Zweibrücken . His early demise was probably connected with the lazy fever brought about and widespread by the war.

In addition to several articles in Baldinger's magazine for doctors , individual reviews and dissertations written in other names, he translated from the French by Philipp Alexander Bachers, a doctor at the medical faculty in Paris , examinations of protracted diseases, especially of the various types of dropsy and theirs Heilart (Berlin and Stettin 1776). He added notes to the value of this book.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Heinrich Döring: Petersen (Philipp Heinrich Gerhard) , in: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , 3rd section, 19th part (1844), p. 125.
  2. ↑ Patricia Sensch: Sophie von La Roches letters to Johann Friedrich Christian Petersen (1788–1806): Critical Edition, Commentary, Analysis , Walter de Gruyter, 2016, p. 34 f.
  3. ^ New general German library , 1794, p. 197 .
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Philipp Heinrich Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergzabern
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1794
Place of death Homburg