Samuel Lorrain

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Samuel Lorrain , called La Rose (also: Samuel de la Rose and Samuel Larose ; born around 1639 ; died April 20, 1721 in Hanover ) was a French-German physician , field surgeon , ducal and Hanoverian personal physician , court surgeon and obstetrician in the Guelph service.

Life

Samuel Lorrain, who was born around 1639 at the time of the Thirty Years War, came from a Huguenot family. His father was a wealthy merchant in Paris based on the banks of the Seine ("in the alley").

Around the year 1666 Samuel Lorrain was a soldier in the service of the Dutch East India Company and was due to a leg injury at the hospital in Batavia , the capital of the Dutch East Indies . A group of barely trained young surgeons wanted to amputate his leg there. After a Parisian goldsmith informed the traveler Jean-Baptiste Tavernier , who was in the city, with the consent of the responsible major, he had the wounded soldier bandaged at his own expense and the further treatment healed by a German surgeon called by a slave . After his recovery, Samuel Lorrain was able to be discharged from Dutch military service through the intervention of Tavernier and several friends and confidants who were related to him. Tavernier then organized the return trip to France.

The church and rectory of the French Reformed parish, of which the La Rose family was a member, stood in the Calenberger Neustadt at the corner of Brandstrasse and Wagenerstrasse

In the royal seat of the former Duchy, which was elevated to the status of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Lorrain worked as a personal physician, court surgeon and obstetrician in the court of Hanover in Guelph services.

In 1701 La Rose treated Karl Moritz Raugraf zu Pfalz in Hanover . On December 23, 1679 he was drawn into Augsburg at the sickbed of his sovereign Duke Johann Friedrich . In 1692 La Rose was sent to Dresden to help Elector Johann Georg II, who had fallen on his horse there . In 1709 the Hanoverian court surgeon treated the local crown princess in Berlin . La Rose was regularly called to Berlin as an obstetrician.

Lorrain was a contemporary of the Hanoverian court advisor, librarian and polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , who also worked in Hanover. Because Lorrain was mentioned many times in Leibniz's correspondence with, among others, the Electress Sophie , the name of the court surgeon became part of the UNESCO world heritage .

As the elector's personal physician, de la Rose last received an annual salary of 600 thalers . De la Rose was buried in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis , in which Leibniz himself was buried.

family

Before 1690, de la Rose married Sophie Charlotte Beck (died May 10, 1726 in Hanover). The couple were members of the French Reformed congregation of Hanover at the time and had 8 children, including 3 daughters and 5 sons. Her son Guillaume Auguste La Rose (born September 1, 1691 in Hanover; died November 27, 1740 there) worked as a medical doctor in Hanover from 1721 to 1740 under the name D. Rose .

literature

  • Eduard de Lorme: Excerpts from the registers of the former French Reformed community in Hanover. In: Quarterly magazine for coat of arms, seal and family studies , issue 4 1911, No. 51
  • Wilhelm Beuleke: The Huguenots in Lower Saxony (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony . Volume 58), Hildesheim 1960, p. 88.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h o. V .: Lorrain gen. La Rose, Samuel (April 20, 1721) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition [undated], last accessed on 10. July 2020.
  2. ^ Wenchao Li (ed.): Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Electress Sophie of Hanover. Correspondence. from the French by Gerda Utermöhlen † and Sabine Sellschopp, 1st edition, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-1884-7 , pp. 160, 313, 552; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b c d Hans-Martin Tiebel: Hildesheim and the royal Hanoverian government. A contribution to the history of the city of Lower Saxony in the 19th century (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony. Volume 55), August Lax Verlag, Hildesheim 1956, especially p. 88; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ A b Jean-Baptiste Tavernier : Mr. Johann Baptisten Taverniers, Freyherrns von Aubonne, Forty-year-old travel description. 3: A short term for a number of relations and strange curiosity tracts from Mr. Johann Baptist Taverniers,… which six previous journeys… could not have brought up, but now, instead of the third part, comprehend the five following pieces… as well as the relation from the inner palace of the Great Turk. Johann Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1681, p. 90 ( books.google.de ; French, p, 146 books.google.de )
  5. ↑ a b Gerd van den Heuvel : Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , pp. 227–229; here: p. 228
  6. ↑ 36. Electress Sophie to Leibniz [Herrenhausen October 22, 1701] . In: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Complete writings and letters . 1st row: General political and historical correspondence. Volume 20: June 1701 - March 1702 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004200-1 , pp. 45–46 , here p. 46 below note 1 , doi : 10.1524 / 9783050085371 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  7. ^ Almut Völker: Samuel LA ROSE in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie in the version of November 26, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Lorrain, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lorrain, Samuel, called la Rose; Rose, Samuel de la; Larose, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German physician, Electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg personal physician, court surgeon and obstetrician at the court of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH around 1639
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1721
Place of death Hanover