Wilhelm Christian Erpenbeck

Wilhelm Christian Erpenbeck (born April 9 or 10, 1750 in Lengerich , County of Tecklenburg , † December 8, 1832 in Steinfurt ) was a doctor and councilor and professor of medicine at the Steinfurt High School .

Life

education

Erpenbeck enrolled at the University of Strasbourg in June 1773 , where he attended courses in medicine and lectures in biology . A certificate issued by Johann Georg Roederer in August 1776 proves that Erpenbeck trained as a gynecologist . In November 1773, he enrolled at the University of Duisburg , where he graduated in 1778 with the promotion graduated as a doctor of medicine. His dissertation was entitled Utrum in statu naturali consumtio et regeneratio partium solidarum corporis animalis adulti recte statuatur? (Duisburg 1778).

Doctor and professor

Even before completing his studies, Erpenbeck applied for the vacant position of medicine professor at the Steinfurt High School in May 1778 . At the instigation of Count Karl von Bentheim-Steinfurt , Erpenbeck was employed there on September 30, 1778. Apparently, by buying office, he had prevailed over a competitor, the younger brother of his deceased predecessor. In a letter to Ludwig zu Bentheim-Steinfurt in 1780, Erpenbeck announced that he would reclaim the sum of 1,100 Reichstalers he had paid in this connection in the event of a resignation.

As a professor, Erpenbeck hardly gave any lectures. There are also almost no known publications by him. On July 18, 1783, before taking office as rector, he spoke on the subject of De natura ac praecipue humana . Hermann Nikolaus Funck , law professor at the High School, judged Erpenbeck in a letter dated March 1, 1784, "that although he may be very useful as a doctor, as a professor he does not seem to be of any use".

Erpenbeck was a personal physician and councilor in the service of the count. Until his death in June 1780 he looked after the old Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt and was also responsible as a doctor or surgeon for the Count's grenadier company. Until his marriage in December 1787, he enjoyed a free table at the Steinfurter Hof and an additional salary.

In 1800 Erpenbeck became the senior professor and librarian at the high school. He held this office until it was closed and the library was relocated to the Count's palace in 1811. In October 1814, Erpenbeck was temporarily given the supervision of the Steinfurter Bagno with a substantial salary.

Conflicts

Erpenbeck remained unpopular in Steinfurt, also because it gave rise to nuisance several times. A duel in September 1783 caused a sensation , which is why he was excluded from the prorectorate for the future. A council minutes from August 24, 1786 stated that one night he behaved extremely rude to a guard on duty.

When the count confiscated the untaxed coal he had imported from Ibbenbüren in 1789 , Erpenbeck, who was tax-exempt as a professor, defended himself in court. The Imperial Chamber Court ruled in his favor on November 27, 1795. In 1795/96 Erpenbeck quarreled with his colleague Rudolf Gempt. He embarrassed himself in 1799 during a school party.

Private

Erpenbeck was married three times, with all wives coming from the same Catholic family, while he himself probably belonged to the Reformed Church . On December 15, 1887, he married Fernandine Clementine Becker, a daughter of the future rent master Lucas Becker. After her death he married her older sister Josefa Maria Becker (died 1818) in 1791 with a papal dispensation . Finally, on February 7, 1819, he married the thirty-year-old Josefine Stapel, daughter of his sister-in-law Luise Becker.

Erpenbeck trotted out as a tenant from 1776 and as owner of the house at Markt 16 from May 5, 1787 . Two years after the acquisition, he had it completely rebuilt. After Erpenbeck died childless on December 30, 1832, his widow stayed in the house until at least 1855. In 1860 the Erpenbeck heirs were listed as the house owner in the fire register.

Works

• Utrum in statu naturali consumtio et regeneratio partium solidarum corporis animalis adulti recte statuatur? Benthon, Duisburg 1778 (medical dissertation; digitized version ).
• Around rabiem caninam. Wellenberg, Steinfurt 1784 (speech of July 18, 1784 at the High School Steinfurt).

literature

• Rudolf Rübel: The Burgsteinfurter Gymnasium Arnoldinum through the ages . Winter, Burgsteinfurt 1953.
• Ingeborg Höting: The professors of the Steinfurter high school . City of Steinfurt, Steinfurt 1991, p. 59 ff .

Web links

• Representation of Erpenbeck on the Steinfurt website currently, now and then