Wilhelm Gottfried Ploucquet

Wilhelm Gottfried Ploucquet in the Tübingen Professorengalerie

Wilhelm Gottfried Ploucquet (born December 20, 1744 in Rötenberg ; † January 12, 1814 ) was a Württemberg doctor and rector of the University of Tübingen .

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Wilhelm Gottfried Ploucquet was born as the son of the philosopher and logician Gottfried Ploucquet in 1744 in Rötenberg. He studied medicine in Tübingen and received his doctorate there based on his dissertation de vi corporum organisatorum assimilatrici in 1766. In 1776 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1782 he was appointed professor ord. in medicine at the University of Tübingen and remained in this position until his death.

Is Ploucquet including through two literary works known: in 1782 and 1787 appeared his small font nova pulmonum docimasia in which he published the scholarly method he lung sample for scientific determination of the criminal death of newborns and thus an extremely important contribution to forensic medicine supplied . 1793–1800 his large-scale, unfortunately incomplete and unreliable bibliographic work Initia bibliothecae medico-practicae realis, sive Repertorium med.-practicum et chirurgicum reale was published initially in 12 volumes and 4 supplementary volumes, followed by Litteratura medica in 1808, 1809 and 1814 digesta in four volumes and a supplement volume.

In addition, Ploucquet has published numerous smaller medical and veterinary treatises, textbooks and writings, but these are of no major importance.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member entry of Wilhelm Gottfried Ploucquet at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 31, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} August Hirsch:  Ploucquet, Wilhelm Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 320 f.