Stephan August Winkelmann

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Stephan August Winkelmann (born January 28, 1780 in Braunschweig ; † February 21, 1806 there ) was a professor in Braunschweig, a physician and poet.

Life

His parents were the merchant and wine merchant Dietrich Wilhelm Winckelmann (born January 22, 1732; † 1799) and his wife Marianne Luise Leisewitz (born May 30, 1753; † April 30, 1818), a sister of the poet Johann Anton Leisewitz .

He attended school in Braunschweig and from 1797 the Collegium Carolinum . Then he enrolled at the University of Jena on May 6, 1799 . In May 1801 he moved to Göttingen, where he received his master's degree in philosophy and on April 1, 1803, his doctorate in medicine. He was initially a private lecturer at the medical faculty and read about physiology and anthropology. After the death of Professor Roose († March 21, 1803), who taught at the Theatrum anatomico-chirurgicum and the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig , Winckelmann applied for his successor. On May 18, 1803 he was added to the list of doctors in the Duchy of Braunschweig , and on July 27, 1803 he was appointed professor at the Theatrum anatomico-chirurgicum. Here he read about physiology, pathology, forensic medicine, medical police (these according to his outline of public health care) and after the departure of Professor Horn also about medicines. In addition, from the same point in time he took over the subject of anthropology at the Collegium Carolinum. In addition, he developed an ardent writing activity in the various areas of his teaching post. But the death put an early end to the successful activity of this hopeful man; as early as February 21, 1806, a nervous fever took him away.

He had contacts with many prominent poets and writers of his time such as Henry Crabb Robinson , Carl von Savigny , Johann Wilhelm Ritter , Heinrich Steffens , Sophie Mereau and Bettina von Arnim . The first volumes of Des Knaben Wunderhorn were printed by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim under the supervision of Winckelmann.

He was also poetic. So he wrote some sacred songs, one of which ("Lord, let our little ship today") is printed in Knapp's Evangelical Song Treasury II.

The literary estate of Winkelmann was taken over by Achim von Arnim in 1806, actually he wanted to publish it. But it was stored in Wiepersdorf Castle until 1945 and has since been considered lost.

Works

  • Literature of the public poor and sick care in Germany. Hahn, Hanover 1802
  • Introduction to dynamic physiology . Heinrich Dieterich, Göttingen 1803 (digitized version)
  • Knowledge of public health care . Wilmans, Frankfurt am Main 1804 (digitized version)
  • Dynamic Pathogeny Design . Reichard, Braunschweig 1805 (digitized version)
  • Archives for mental and nervous diseases . Oehmigke d. J., Berlin 1805 (digitized version)
  • Observations about madness: together with examination of Gall's skull theory . Oehmigke d. J., Berlin 1806 (digitized version)

The didactic poem Paramythe from 1803 and a collection of forget-me-nots (1806) are considered lost.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General medical annals of the nineteenth century: 1806, obituary p.383
  2. ^ Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson , 57
  3. ↑ Konstanze Bäumer, Hartwig Schultz, Bettina von Arnim , p. 8
  4. ↑ Heinz Rölleke, Des Knaben Wunderhorn: old German songs , 1979, history of origin
  5. ^ Nautical songs. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Johann Baptist Ristelhueber, How to the literature of the orphan care: the elementary educational system , Volume 1, 1831 Köln P.65

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personal data
SURNAME Winkelmann, August Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Medic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1806
Place of death Braunschweig