Urban Brückmann
Urban Friedrich Benedikt Brückmann (born April 23, 1728 in Wolfenbüttel , † June 20, 1812 in Braunschweig ) was a German doctor , mineralogist and scientific writer . He was the personal physician of three Brunswick dukes. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was one of his patients .
life and work
He was born as the eldest son of the doctor and natural scientist Franz Ernst Brückmann and his wife, daughter of the Zellerfeld mint commissioner Julius Georg Töpfer. He attended the Wolfenbüttel high school " Große Schule ", the school in Clausthal and the monastery school in Mariental . Brückmann studied medicine in Jena and medicine, physiology, biology and mineralogy at the University of Helmstedt . He received his doctorate in 1750 with the dissertation The Description of the Prince Fountain near Jena . He then worked for a short time as a doctor in the practice of his sick father in Wolfenbüttel. As early as 1751 he moved to Braunschweig, where he opened a medical practice and also worked as a professor and prosector at the Collegium Anatomico-Chirurgicum, which was founded in 1750 .
Ducal personal physician
He worked as a physician at the Brunswick Military Hospital, treated the staff of the ducal court and eventually became a doctor of the ducal family to Duke Karl I. Since 1755 he bore the title of court physician and was subsequently to Leibmedikus of the Duke and the Hereditary Prince Charles William Ferdinand appointed . In 1775 he received a canonical from the court at the Braunschweiger Domstift . In his handwritten private notes on all sorts of events, people and curiosities, especially from court life in Braunschweig in the second half of the 18th century , Brückmann described the clinical pictures of his patients from the Welfenhaus . He published around 150 treatises on medical topics, most of which appeared in the Braunschweigisches Magazin and partly in the Hannoversche Magazin . In 1780 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .
mineralogist
His financial situation enabled Brückmann to expand the mineralogical collection inherited from his father. His intensive studies were included in numerous publications. Brückmann was considered the most famous gemstone expert of his time. Lessing, who was one of Brückmann's patients and to whom he was on friendly terms, referred to his mineralogical publications in his letters with antiquarian content . Brückmann accompanied Lessing in his last hours on February 15, 1781 in Braunschweig.
Brückmann died in Braunschweig at the age of 84.
The painter Anna Rosina de Gasc created an oil portrait of Brückmann around 1770, which is now in the possession of the Braunschweig Municipal Museum .
Fonts
- Treatise on precious stones together with a description of the so-called Salzthalic stone. Brunswick 1757.
- Treatise on the World Eye, or Lapide Mutabili. Brunswick 1777.
- About the sarder, onyx and sardonyx. Brunswick 1801.
- Collected and own contributions to his treatise on precious stones , Fürstl. Orphanage bookstore, Braunschweig, editions: 1773, 1778 and 1783
literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 104 f .
Web links
- Ludwig Ferdinand Spehr : Brückmann, Urban Friedrich Benedict . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 398.
- Literature by and about Urban Brückmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- The man under whose hands Lessing fell asleep. in the Braunschweiger Zeitung, July 18, 2004.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brückmann, Urban |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brückmann, Urban Friedrich Benedikt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor, mineralogist and scientific writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1728 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolfenbüttel |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1812 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |