Christian Gottfried Stentzel

Christian Gottfried Stentzel (also: Stenzel ; * October 28, 1698 in Torgau ; † June 21, 1748 in Wittenberg ) was a German medic .

literature

Stenzel was the son of a barber. He had enrolled on September 29, 1717 at the University of Wittenberg to study medicine. On December 12, 1720 he was licentiate in medicine and received his doctorate on March 2, 1721 as a doctor of medicine. In addition to studying medicine, he also studied ancient languages, earned his master's degree in philosophy on October 17, 1721, and developed special skills in Greek.

After he had married on January 22, 1722, he found access as an extraordinary professor of surgery as a professor at the medical faculty of the Wittenberg University in 1727 . In 1732 he became a full special professor of surgery and in the same year in place of Christian Vater , substitute for Johann Heinrich von Heucher . In 1736 he moved up to the third professorship. From now on he read less about surgery and more about medicine, and as the first in Wittenberg about women and childhood diseases. Stenzel also took part in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg University. In the winter semesters of 1737, 1739, 1743 and 1747 he was rector of the academy .

Selection of works

1. De Salvia in infuso entsibenda hujusque prae Thea Chinesi praestantia. Wittenberg 1723
2. De Sommo Tractatio Greco Latina. Leipzig 1721
3. Antropologia ad Pathologiam applicata. Wittenberg 1728
4. Tractatus de Asylis ignorantiae in Medicina & Chirurgiae Usitata & de Natura Stahlianae Chiurgiae. Leipzig 1718
5. Medicina theoloretico pratica. Frankfurt 1732, 1737
6. Topologia patologico-medica sive de Verenenis, Libri III. Wittenberg 1723
7. De lactis succique nutricii praeparatione principiis commodis atque incommodis. Wittenberg 1727
8. De rite requirenda ad feliciter cito & tuto curandum orgine morborum. Wittenberg 1723
9. De philtris rite examinandis & dijudicandis, from strands of life. Wittenberg 1726
10. De fleatomatibus in principio arteriae Aortae repertis & horum occasione de cysticis in genre excrescentiis. Wittenberg 1723
11. Scriptum, quo presidia fanatis, quibus Vitemberga abundat contra tritum sermone proverbium: Whoever comes from Wittenberg with a healthy body, munus Professoris Pathologiae auspicaturus defendit, Mente Martio. 1737
12. Programma, in quo in medicinam experimentalem invehitur. Wittenberg 1737
13. Dissertation. De consuetudine altera natura. Wittenberg 1737
14. Progr. De incommodis commodae vitae. Wittenberg 1737
15. De utero infonte. Wittenberg
16. De cantharidibus prosperae adversaeque auctoribus valetudinis. Wittenberg 1740
17. Dissertatio inauguralis medica de utero insonte, from the innocent mother ... Wittenberg 1735
18. De exitiosis aegrotorum ad acidulas thermasque relegatorum fatis, from Sauer-Brunnen, and Warm-Bade-Cur… Wittenberg 1741

literature

• Stentzel, Christian Gottfried. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 39, Leipzig 1744, column 1841 f.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Gelehrtenlexikon vol. 3 col. 813
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg . Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917.
• Matriculation at the University of Wittenberg
• Hans-Joachim Böttcher : "Sten (t) zel, Christian Gottfried", in: Important historical personalities of the Dübener Heide, AMF - No. 237, 2012, p. 98.