Theodor Christoph Krug from Nidda

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Theodor Christoph Krug , from 1703 Krug von Nidda , (born June 23, 1653 in Hersfeld , † May 1719 in Ilmenau ) was a German miner , physician and personal physician to the Great Elector .

Life

Krug came of the Hessian salt-mining successful Krug family . He was the son of the preacher Johann Daniel Krug (1625–1704). He completed medical studies at the University of Marburg in 1676 with a doctorate . This was followed in 1677 by a position as city ​​physician in Schmalkalden, in 1679 as Hessian personal physician and in 1684 as Hessian mountain ridge .

Later Krug went to Brandenburg-Prussia to work in Berlin as a senior physician or personal physician to the Great Elector and his son and successor Friedrich III. as well as from 1695 as dean of the medical college and secret council .

In Cölln , Krug took over the directorate of the “Magdeburg and Mansfeld ore and slate trade union” founded in 1691, which had received the most important private mountain shelf in Brandenburg-Prussia.

On July 7, 1684, the Leopoldina took Theodor Christoph Crug under the academic surname Mercurius under matriculation no. 123 on. The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences did this on March 11, 1701.

When Emperor Leopold I raised merited members of the Krug family to the imperial nobility in 1703, Theodor Christoph Krug also received the name change " Krug von Nidda ".

From 1710 until his death in 1719 Krug was director of the physical class and vice-president of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1712 and 1716. He was also from 1709 to 1713 mining captain of the Halberstadt Oberbergamt.

Fonts

  • Splendidissimi Medicorum Ordinis Indultu Et Authoritate, In Illustri Marpurgensi Academia, Pro Gradu Doctoratus, Et Summis In Arte Medica Titulis Et Privilegiis, Hanc de Morbis Chronicis Ex Acido Vitioso, Disquisitionem, Solenni Excellentissimorum Dominorum Professorum examini exponitus Theodorensus 3 Maii, Anno 1676. 1676 digitized
  • Viri Magnifici D. Theodori Christophori Krugii, Consiliarii & Archiatri Electoralis Brandeburgici Observationum Curiosiarum Triga. Norimbergae 1692

literature

  • Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 473 digitized
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 195 digitized
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 150 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Theodor Christoph Krug von Nidda at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 15, 2018.
  2. ^ Theodor (Dietrich) Christoph Krug von Nidda. Members of the predecessor academies. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Jug from Nidda, Theodor Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krug, Theodor Christoph; Crug, Theodor Christoph, Mercurius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining captain, physician and personal physician to the Great Elector
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1653
PLACE OF BIRTH Hersfeld
DATE OF DEATH May 1719
Place of death Ilmenau