Wilhelm Friedrich Domeier

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Wilhelm Friedrich Domeier (born August 27, 1763 in Moringen , † April 20, 1815 in London ) was a Hanoverian court doctor.

Life

He was the son of the mayor of Moringen, Johann Gabriel Domeier . In 1784 he received his doctorate in medicine at the University of Göttingen and then became a physician at the English court in Hanover and personal physician first to Prince Edward August and from 1792 by his brother August Friedrich , whom he accompanied on his trip to Italy in 1794.

On June 27, 1802, he married the writer and translator Lucie Bertrand , whom he had met in Berlin. A son from this marriage (August Edward Domeier) was born on February 18, 1804.

Domeier published works on smallpox vaccination and venereal diseases , essays (including on the mineral spring in Bad Nenndorf , animal magnetism and the skeleton of a mammoth found in North America ) and translated medical works from English and Latin.

Works

  • De viribus naturae medicatricibus in reparandis et coadunandis partibus corporis humani abscissis (1784, dissertation)
  • Fragments on the knowledge of venereal diseases (1790; with Georg von Wedekind )
  • Raising of some concerns about vaccination against cowpox (1802)
  • News of a complete skeleton of a quadruped, previously often called mammoth or mammoth, found in North America. In: New writings of the Society of Friends of Natural Science in Berlin . Vol. 4, No. 6 (1803)

Translations:

  • About the flow of strokes, especially the nerves. (1791) Translation of De apoplexia praesertim nervea commentarius by Francesco Zuliani-Gibellini
  • About the cure of diseases of horses and other domestic animals than: cows, sheep and dogs. Free partial translation of The Outlines of the veterinary art by Delabere P. Blaine

Honors

literature

  • Hamberger / Meusel: The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the now living German writers. 5th Edition, Vol. 2 (1796), pp. 85f; Vol. 17 (1820), p. 442
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover, or lexicon of writers who have lived in the Kingdom of Hanover since the Reformation. Vol. 1 (1823), pp. 477f

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personal data
SURNAME Domeier, Wilhelm Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dohmeyer, Wilhelm F .; Domeier, Wilhelmus Fridericus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian court doctor
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH Moringen
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1815
Place of death London