Wilhelm Friedrich Adolph Gerresheim

Wilhelm Friedrich Adolph Gerresheim (born June 21, 1742 in Zossen ; † February 5, 1814 in Dresden ) was a German naturalist and doctor.

Life

Encouraged by his childhood friend Peter Simon Pallas during a joint stay at the University of Leiden , Gerresheim devoted himself to researching and collecting zoophytes . His coral collection, which he bequeathed to the Zoological Museum of the University of Berlin in 1810 when it was founded, was considered the most beautiful and orderly of its kind at the time. With the royal natural collection and the private collections of Johann Centurius von Hoffmannsegg and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst it formed the basis of the University zoological collections. In gratitude for the legacy, Gerresheim received the title of Royal Prussian Court Councilor and on November 2, 1810, together with Hoffmannsegg, was awarded the third class red eagle order.

After his doctorate as Dr. med. on September 28, 1764 in Leiden, Gerresheim traveled through England and France and finally settled in 1770 as a general practitioner in Dresden, where he acted as personal physician to the Duke of Courland Karl von Sachsen (1733-1796) on the mediation of Christian Heinrich Hänel .

Gerresheim was a foreign member of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin , of which he became an honorary member in 1803.

In 1775 Gerresheim came through his marriage to Sophie Friederike geb. Schäffer (born April 1, 1750 in Dresden; † July 5, 1833 there) in the possession of the manor in Krakow , Sella and Zochau . At the Kraków church a grave monument commemorated Gerresheim and his wife.

Fonts

De Sanitate cuivis homini propria . Georg Wishoff, Lugduni Batavorum 1764 ( full text in the Google book search).

literature

Carsten Eckert: Wilhelm Friedrich Adolph Gerresheim - Natural history from Anton Graff . In: Anton Graff - portraits of a portraitist . Wolff Verlag, Berlin 2013, p. 93-98 .
Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein : Nekrolog in the Berlinische Nachrichten von Staats- und schehrten Dinge, No. 19 of February 14, 1814.
Johann Gottlieb August Klänke: Newest learned Dresden . Voss, Leipzig 1796, p. 39–40 ( full text in Google Book Search).
Folkwart Wendland: Peter Simon Pallas, 1741–1811, materials for a biography. de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1991/92, p. 335. ISBN 3-11-012997-3

Web links

Objects from the Gerresheim Collection

Individual evidence

^ Album studiosorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae MDLXXV-MDCCCLXXV
^ Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein : The Zoological Museum of the University of Berlin . Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin 1816, p. 100 ( full text in Google Book Search).
↑ Order list of the knights and owners of the royal. Prussian Order in 1810, Berlin 1811, p. 44.
↑ The Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin Neue Schriften, Volume 4, SX
↑ Krakow . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, p. 119.
^ Cornelius Gurlitt : Cracow. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 35. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Kamenz (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1912, p. 131.

personal data
SURNAME	Gerresheim, Wilhelm Friedrich Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German naturalist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 21, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zossen
DATE OF DEATH	February 5, 1814
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Album studiosorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae MDLXXV-MDCCCLXXV

[2] Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein : The Zoological Museum of the University of Berlin . Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin 1816, p. 100 ( full text in Google Book Search).

[3] Order list of the knights and owners of the royal. Prussian Order in 1810, Berlin 1811, p. 44.

[4] The Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin Neue Schriften, Volume 4, SX

[5] Krakow . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, p. 119.

[6] Cornelius Gurlitt : Cracow. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 35. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Kamenz (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1912, p. 131.