Wilhelm Ernst Christian Huschke

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Wall grave site for Wilhelm Ernst Christian Huschke at the historical cemetery in Weimar

Wilhelm Ernst Christian Huschke (born November 21, 1760 in Bürgel ; † September 2, 1828 in Weimar ) was a German court medic and Privy Councilor who worked in Weimar.

Life

Huschke studied medicine in Jena . He received his doctorate in 1788 with a dissertation inauguralis medica de masturbatione, Jena 1788 . He was a student of Johann Christian Stark .

From 1792 Huschke was court medicus and personal physician of the grand dukes Karl Friedrich and Karl Alexander , privy councilor and also Christoph Martin Wieland and Johann Gottfried Herder's general practitioner.

Huschke owes posterity to two things with regard to the death of the poet Friedrich Schiller in 1805. Once it was in all likelihood he was the one who prompted Schiller's death mask to be made. We also have Schiller's autopsy report from him and Gottfried von Herder . Shortly before his death, Huschke had treated Schiller himself on behalf of Professor Stark. Ultimately, in classic Weimar, Huschke had treated pretty much all of the celebrities including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

He is the father of Emil Huschke and Johann Friedrich Karl Huschke , who also became doctors. The latter became a grand ducal personal physician in Weimar.

Huschke is buried in the historical cemetery in Weimar .

literature

  • Wolfgang Huschke : Wilhelm Ernst Christian Huschke, the doctor of classical Weimar. 1937.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolph Carl Peter Callisen: Medicinisches Writer-Lexicon the now living doctors, surgeons ... Vol. 9, Copenhagen 1832, p. 322 f.
  2. ↑ https://www.thueringen.de/imperia/md/content/staatsarchive/weimar/schaukasten/Fenue_1.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.schiller-biographie.de/index.php?id=52

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personal data
SURNAME Huschke, Wilhelm Ernst Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court medic and privy councilor
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1828
Place of death Weimar