Theodor Georg August Roose

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Theodor Georg August Roose (born February 13 or February 14, 1771 in Braunschweig ; † March 21, 1803 ibid) was a German physician and professor of physiology and anatomy as well as medical historian .

Life

The son of a merchant attended the Collegium Carolinum from 1787 , studied in Helmstedt from 1790 and then in Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1794 with the medical dissertation De notivo vesicae urinariae inversae prolapsu . He then went on a study trip to England and settled in Braunschweig. He came out with the first publications. He was appointed professor of anatomy and physiology at the anatomical-surgical institute and secretary of the senior medical school. In 1802 he was appointed ducal-Braunschweig Hofrat because he had refused an appointment to Kiel . Roose was one of the most respected physiologists and coroners in Germany at the time.

Roose used in his already in 1797 published book outlines of the doctrine of the life force the word " biology ", which officially until later (1802) by the German anatomist and physiologist Friedrich Burdach and French zoologists and botanists de Jean-Baptiste Lamarck coined independently should be. Roose used the word "biology" to describe the theory of "life force". In doing so, he followed the energetic-physical conception of nature of his time, with this concept in turn being based on the theory of organic forces by Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer .

In 1795 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Works (selection)

  • About suffocating newborn children. 1794.
  • Basic features of the doctrine of the life force. Braunschweig 1797; 1803.
  • Outline of physical-anthropological lectures. 1798-1802.
  • Contributions to public and judicial medicine studies. 1798-1802.
  • Pocket book for forensic physicians on legal body openings. Friedrich Wilmans Verlag , Bremen 1800.
  • About the yellow bodies of the female eyesticks. 1800.
  • Floor plan of the med. judicial lectures. Frankfurt / Main, 1802.

literature

  • Samuel Baur : General historical = biographical = literary concise dictionary of all strange people who died in the first decade of the 19th century. Second volume: M – Z. Publishing house of the Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1816.
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 501 .
  • Christiane Strake: Life and work of Theodor Georg August Roose (1771–1803). (Dissertation at the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig, Department for the History of Natural Sciences with a focus on the history of pharmacy).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 501.
  2. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German biographical encyclopedia. Volume 8, 2nd edition, Munich 2007, p. 521.
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 204.
personal data
SURNAME Roose, Theodor Georg August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and professor of physiology and anatomy as well as medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1771 or February 14, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1803
Place of death Braunschweig