Wilhelm Elwert
Wilhelm Elwert (born October 14, 1793 in Hildesheim , † January 11, 1867 in Harburg ) was a German homeopath .
Career
He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen and Berlin. In 1818 he wrote a 110-page dissertation on the history of a strange disease, which he submitted to the University of Braunschweig in order to obtain the academic degree of doctor of medicine .
He was medical advisor and court medicus of Georg V (Hanover) , King of Hanover. He became a Knight of the Guelph Order and on June 30, 1845, he was appointed a corresponding member of the Rhenish Association for Practical Medicine . He was made aware of homeopathy by Georg August Heinrich Mühlenbein (1764–1845) and was friends with Friedrich Jakob Rummel (1793–1854).
Elwert first practiced in Hildesheim and in 1837 he moved to Hanover. In 1858 he moved to his estate near Itzehoe and later practiced in Harburg.
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz D. Schroers: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Homöopathen , Georg Thieme Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-83047-254-4 , p. 30 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elwert, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hildesheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1867 |
| Place of death | Harburg |