Theodor Kestner
Theodor Friedrich Arnold Kestner (born May 15, 1779 in Hanover , † May 28, 1847 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German physician .
Theodor Kestner was the fifth son of the Hanoverian lawyer and archivist Johann Christian Kestner (1741–1800) and of Charlotte Kestner, b. Buff (1753-1828), Goethe's Lotte.
He studied medicine in Jena from 1798 and in Göttingen from 1800 , where he received his doctorate in 1802 and was appointed private lecturer . In 1804 he settled in Frankfurt am Main as a doctor through Goethe's mediation . Here in 1813 he became a professor at the medical and surgical special school at the Senckenberg Foundation , in 1814 city doctor of Frankfurt, and finally in 1816 a rural physician.
He is buried in Frankfurt's main cemetery, Gewann A 413 G.
Publications
- Dissertatio inauguralis physiologica sistens quaedam de nexu matris cum embryone . Göttingen 1802 ( digitized version ).
- (Translation): Johann Friedrich Lobstein : About the nutrition of the fetus . Hall 1804 ( digitized ).
literature
- Johann Stephan Pütter , F. Saalfeld: Attempt of an academic scholarly history from the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen , 3rd part, 1820, pp. 248–249 digitized .
- Wilhelm Kallmorgen: The Frankfurt city doctor Theodor Kestner, a son of Goethe's Lotte . In: Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift 82, 1935, pp. 23-25.
- Wilhelm Ebel : Catalogus professorum Gottingensium, 1734-1962 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1962, p. 91 No. 37.
Web links
- Theodor Kestner in the register of the regesta edition of Goethe's letters
- Document by Theodor Kestner in Kalliope
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kestner, Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kestner, Theodor Friedrich Arnold (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1847 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |