Wilhelm Hermann Georg Remer

Wilhelm Hermann Georg Remer (born July 9, 1775 in Braunschweig , † December 31, 1850 in Breslau ) was a German medic.

Life

The only son of Julius August Remer (1738–1803) studied in 1793 at the universities in Helmstedt , Jena and Göttingen for four and a half years. In Helmstedt he received his doctorate in medicine in 1797 with the treatise De plethora sanguinea ("On blood fullness") and was awarded a master's degree in philosophical sciences.

He completed his habilitation in Helmstedt in 1797 as a private lecturer, became an associate professor in 1799 and a full professor of medicine in 1804. He became the director of the outpatient clinic there.

After the University of Helmstedt had ceased teaching, he was appointed full professor and director of the outpatient clinic at the University of Königsberg in 1809 , he was also director of the insane asylum there and editor of the Königsberg archive.

In addition, he participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was prorector of the Alma Mater in 1809/10 and 1813/14 .

In 1815 he moved to the University of Breslau in the same capacity , was appointed Medical Councilor in 1816 and a member of the local medical college.

In 1830 he was appointed to the government medical council and in 1837 to the secret medical council . He also received the Red Eagle Order, second class.

As an extremely fruitful writer, he wrote numerous physical, chemical and medical works, some of which were translated into different languages. Much of this work can be found as essays in the specialist journals of the time. Remer was also a member of many learned societies.

Works (selection)

• Diss. De plethora sanguinea. Helmstedt 1797.
  • Part 1 theoretica, pro gradu Doct. med.
  • Part 2 therapeutica, pro venia legendi ,
• Progr. Cogitata quaedam de. causa.debilitatis, haemoptysin inlerdum exclpientis, et de vasorum, quae in hoc morbo sanguinem effundunt, genere proponit. Helmstedt 1798.
• On the definition of salts and the classification of acids. Helmstedt 1798 ( online )
• Police forensic chemistry textbook. Helmstedt 1803, 1812, 1827 1st volume ( online ); 2nd vol. French under the title: Police judiciaire pharmaco-chimique, ou traite des alimens salubres, de leur sophistication et des alterations, qu'ils éprouvent dans les vaisseaux, qui servent á leur preparation; des subitances tirées des trois régnes que l'on peut constderer comme poisons; des matiéres venéneuses, que fournissent le serpent, les crapauds, les vers, les insectes etc., et des mésures de surveillance et de police nécessaires pour prévenir les méprises si funestes dans les préparations des rémedes etc. Traduit de l'allemand par EJBillon -Lagrange et Aug. Vogel. Précédé d'un rapport sur l'ouvrage fait a l'institut par Guyton - Morveau. Paris, 1816; Italian under the title: Polizia giudiciaria farmaco-chimica o sia trattato degli alimenti salubri della loro falsificazione, delle alterazioni che subiacono nei vasi di rame i quali servono a prepararli; dei veneni animali, vegetabili e miner ec. Del Sign. Gius-Chiappari. Milan 1818, Russian translation published in St. Petersburg 1818
• Plan and laws of the ambulatory clinic in Helmstedt. Helmstedt 1803.
• Handbook of therapeutic remedies, for academic lectures. Braunschweig u. Helmstedt 1805.
• Diss. De tracheitide sicca, morbe infantibus proprio, periculosissimo, interdum epidemico, nondum satis cognito. Koenigsberg 1809.
• General Theraphy of Diseases of Man. Designed for academic lectures. Along with 2nd tables. Wroclaw 1818.

Editorships

• Joh. Fried. Jul. Spannuth, sermon on the void objections. And the serious offense of those who deliberately do not try to protect their children and foster children from child smallpox with protective sheets. Helmstedt 1807.
• Joh. D. Metzger, system of judicial medicinal science, increased after the author's death, verb. And with the nöth. Add. Accidentally by Ch. Gf. Gruner. 5th edition, expanded and corrected. Königsberg / Leipzig 1820 ( online )

literature

• Karl Gabriel Nowack: Silesian writers' lexicon or bio-bibliographical index of the Silesian writers living in the second quarter of the 19th century. Volume 5, Verlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1841, p. 138. ( online )
• August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume 4, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna / Leipzig 1886, p. 703.
• Johann Christian Poggendorff : Biographical - literary concise dictionary of the exact natural sciences. Verlag Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1863, Sp. 602. ( online )
• Friedrich August Schmidt: New necrology of the Germans. Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Vol. 28, 1850, Part 2, p. 850. ( online )
• JJ Lang, H. Th. Schletter: Academic monthly. Central organ for the general interests of German universities. Verlag Hermann Bethmann, Leipzig 1851, p. 87. ( online )
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or lexicon of the now living German writers. Volume 10, Fifth Edition. 1803, p. 467 ( online ); 1805, Vol. 11, p. 636. ( online ); 1811, Vol. 15, p. 137. ( online ); 1823, Vol. 19, p. 311. ( online );