Solomon Constantine Titius

Solomon Konstantin Titius (born August 2, 1766 in Wittenberg , † February 9, 1801 in Wittenberg) was a German medic.

Life

Born as the son of Johann Daniel Titius , he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on November 22, 1778 , had been a student at the Fürstenschule in Grimma from 1779 and switched to the University of Leipzig in the winter semester of 1786 , where he received his academic degree on February 18, 1790 degree of Magister acquired philosophy. He then decided on a medical career, studied in a pharmacy in Leipzig, became a baccalaureate in medicine on September 22 , 1790 licentiate in medicine and then went on a longer study trip that took him to Milan , Padua and Vienna , among others he devoted himself particularly to surgery.

After he returned to his homeland in the summer semester of 1792, he took over the substitute from Johann Gottfried Leonhardi at the Wittenberg University and was appointed full professor of anatomy and botany on July 3, 1795 on the instructions of Elector Friedrich August I of Saxony . After the death of his father, he continued to run the “Wittenberger Wochenblatt for the recording of natural history and the economic trade”, which he founded. Titius, who had also been rector of the Wittenberg University in the winter semester of 1797 , became a victim of his profession and died of scarlet fever.

literature

• Nikolaus Müller: The finds in the tower knobs of the town church in Wittenberg, Magdeburg Evangelische Buchhandlung Ernst Holtermann, 1912
• Wittenberger Wochenblatt 1792 p. 136
• New Wittenberger Wochenblatt 1795 p. 231
• Walter Friedensburg "History of the University of Wittenberg" Verlag Max Niemeyer Halle (Saale) 1917