Siegmund Hahn

Siegmund Hahn, founder of water medicine in Germany

Johann Siegmund Hahn (born November 23, 1664 in Schweidnitz , Duchy of Schweidnitz ; † October 6, 1742 ibid), doctor of medicine, general practitioner and city physician in Schweidnitz, was the founder of hydrology in Germany. He later became the personal physician of the Polish heir to the throne, Prince Jakob Sobieski .

Life

Siegmund Hahn took on hydrotherapy and became the teacher of his two sons Johann Gottfried and Johann Siegmund Hahn, who both later became well-known doctors (“water taps”) themselves. He, the father, is the actual founder of both naturopathic and scientific hydrotherapy in Germany. As early as 1732 he published his first book The Perswälder Gesundbrunnen - meaning Peterswaldau in the Lower Silesian district of Reichenbach (Eulengebirge) - and in it promoted the recognition and spread of the cold water cure in Germany. In 1737 his republished text Psychrolusia vetus renovata, jam recocta , was published, which ultimately inspired his younger son Johann Siegmund to write his own “water book” (Hahn used “Psychrolusia” to describe cold bathing and cold drinking).

family

Johann Siegmund Hahn (the elder) married Katharina Sophia Grass for the first time in 1692, who died in 1694 immediately or soon after the birth of her son. In the following year 1695 he married Maria Susanna Franz for the second time. The marriages resulted in at least two sons:

Johann Gottfried von Hahn (1694–1753), doctor and medical advisor in Breslau
Johann Siegmund Hahn (1696–1773), doctor and city physician in Schweidnitz, co-founder of water therapy in Germany

His grandson was Johann Friedrich von Hahn (1725–1786), a doctor in Breslau

literature

Alfred Brauchle : The two taps Dr. med. Siegmund and Dr. med. Johann Siegmund Hahn. Starting point for both scientific and natural healing water treatment in Germany. In: the same: history of naturopathy in life pictures . 2nd ext. Ed. By Große Naturärzte . Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1951, pp. 62-69

Web links

Joachim fruits: Hahn, Johann Siegmund. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 511 ( digitized version ).
Short biography ( memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Hubertus Averbeck: From the cold water cure to physical therapy. Reflections on people and at the time of the most important developments in the 19th century . Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86741-782-2 , p. 977.
^ Gundolf Keil : Vegetarian. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 29–68, here: p. 44.

personal data
SURNAME	Hahn, Siegmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hahn, Johann Siegmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor and city physician in Schweidnitz, founder of hydrotherapy in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH	November 23, 1664
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schweidnitz , Duchy of Schweidnitz
DATE OF DEATH	October 6, 1742
Place of death	Schweidnitz , Duchy of Schweidnitz

[1] Hubertus Averbeck: From the cold water cure to physical therapy. Reflections on people and at the time of the most important developments in the 19th century . Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86741-782-2 , p. 977.

[2] Gundolf Keil : Vegetarian. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 29–68, here: p. 44.