Stephan Zipff

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Epitaph in the Heiliggeistkirche Heidelberg

Stephan Zipff , often Zipf (born May 16, 1761 in Klingenmünster , † December 11, 1813 in Heidelberg ) was a German physician.

biography

He was the son of Johann Anton Zipff, an electoral Palatinate customs officer in the Oberamt Germersheim. At the time of the French revolutionary occupation of the Rhine Palatinate, this was one of the officials who remained loyal to the old government and wrote a. a. 1796, from Mannheim, a report on the conditions in the occupied territories to Count Palatine Max Joseph ; since 1788 he was also a member of the Heidelberg Pactum Marianum , the brotherhood of the former Jesuit Sodals .

Stephan Zipff studied philosophy and medicine at the universities of Heidelberg , Strasbourg and Ingolstadt between 1778 and 1780 , earned a doctorate in philosophy and worked as an assistant doctor at the hospitals of Strasbourg, Munich and Würzburg until 1784 . After earning a doctorate in medicine, he opened a practice in Mannheim in 1785 , and in 1786 he was appointed as a country doctor in the Electoral Palatinate in the Oberamt Germersheim . From 1794–1804, Stephan Zipff worked as a state doctor in Heidelberg. From 1804 he was professor for forensic medicine , pharmacology and veterinary medicine at the University of Heidelberg. The chair for veterinary medicine had been specially set up for him there. Zipff retained the office of city doctor ( city ​​physician ), and that of senior doctor he gave up on this occasion. The doctor published several specialist books, the best known of which is the two-volume textbook on diseases of animals, and especially horses (1807/1808).

Zipff died in 1813 of nerve fever (typhus) and was probably infected while he was doing his medical service, as the grave inscription "Philanthropy made him a corpse ..." suggests.

Stephan Zipff was of Catholic faith and was buried in the then still Catholic choir of the Heidelberg Heiliggeist Church , where a beautiful epitaph was dedicated to him. His son Franz Joseph Zipff initially lived as a doctor in Baden-Baden , later as a district physician in Tauberbischofsheim . His brother Heinrich Zipff, also a doctor, later took over the position as the second Heidelberg city physician. Both brothers died in 1848.

Documents from Stephan Zipff's student days in Heidelberg are preserved in the university registers from which it emerges that the student did not pay the rent to his landlord in 1780 and that he had otherwise incurred debts. Therefore, the father decreed that his son should be beaten with a stick by a military corporal in the university building, which the university rector approved, but the philosophical faculty rejected under protest.

literature

  • Dictionary of German Biography , Walter de Gruyter, 2006, Volume 10, Page 714, ISBN 3110961164 ; Scan from the source
  • Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johan Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland or lexicon of the now living German writers , Lemgo, 1827, Volume 21, Page 813; Scan from the source

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Xaver Remling : The Rhine Palatinate in the Revolutionary Period 1792 to 1798 , Volume 2, Pages 247-251; Scan from the source
  2. ^ Membership directory of the Heidelberg Pactum Marianum, online view
  3. ↑ Kurpfälzischer Hof- und Staats-Kalender for the year 1790 , Munich, 1790, page 141; Scan from the source
  4. ^ Georg Schmidt: The Institute for Forensic Medicine , in: The Heidelberg University Hospital and its Institutes , Heidelberg 1986, page 38, ISBN 978-3-642-70863-3 ; Online view from the source ( memento of the original dated May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / link.springer.com
  5. ↑ Allgemeine Literaturzeitung , No. 90, Leipzig, April 1814; Scan from the source
  6. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Grossherzogthums Baden , Karlsruhe, 1834, page 357; Scan from the source
  7. ^ Intelligence Gazette of the Rhine District , supplement to No. 6, Speyer, January 18, 1830; Scan from the source
  8. ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogthums Baden , Karlsruhe, 1846, page 213; Scan from the source
  9. ↑ Law and Ordinance Gazette for the Grand Duchy of Baden, 1848, pages 154 and 426 of the year
  10. ^ Gustav Toepke: The register of the University of Heidelberg from 1704-1807 (4th part), page 302, Heidelberg, 1903; Online view of the source
personal data
SURNAME Zipff, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zipf, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Klingenmünster
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1813
Place of death Heidelberg