Wilhelm Lachmann

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Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolph Lachmann (born November 22, 1801 in Braunschweig , † June 23, 1861 in Wiesbaden ) was a German doctor and naturalist. He is the founder of the Braunschweig Institute for the Blind .

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The son of the Brunswick pastor Karl Ludolf Friedrich Lachmann and brother of the Germanist Karl Lachmann and the poor doctor Heinrich Lachmann attended the Martino-Katharineum grammar school , where he passed the Abitur in 1817. He then studied medicine at the Collegium Carolinum and Collegium Anatomico-Chirurgicum in his hometown, before moving to the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 1821 . In 1822 he was reciprocated in the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen . In 1823 he received his doctorate in medicine. In 1824 he passed the medical state examination in Braunschweig.

Lachmann worked professionally as a military doctor. He held lectures and lectures at the Brunswick Collegium Anatomico-Chirurgicum. In 1841 he was appointed professor.

Lachmann's natural history publications on the geognosy and leveling of the Harz Mountains and the Duchy of Braunschweig were valued by Alexander von Humboldt and the geologist Leopold von Buch . His work “Flora Brunsvicensis” should also be emphasized. This contains the first meteorological description for the Braunschweig region . Lachmann identified the rapid change in weather conditions as one of the characteristic regional climate features . Lachmann's meteorological estate (with weather observations by Brocken host Eduard Nehse ) is in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.

In addition to his work as a naturalist, Lachmann wrote several books on pedagogy for the blind. He is the founder of the Braunschweig Institute for the Blind, which began teaching in 1829. Lachmann died in 1861 while taking a spa stay in Wiesbaden.

Works (selection)

Natural history
  • Flora Brunsvicensis. Part 1. Meyer, Braunschweig 1827 digitized , Part 2, 1st section. Meyer, Braunschweig 1828 digitized , part 2, 2nd section. Meyer, Braunschweig 1831 digitized .
  • Leveling of the Harz Mountains or the sea level of 413 points in the Harz Mountains. Brunswick 1851.
  • The physiography of the Duke of Brunswick and the Harz Mountains. Part I: Nivellement 1851; Part II: Geognosy 1852.
Education for the blind
  • About an institution to be set up in Braunschweig for teaching the blind and teaching the blind in general. Meyer, Braunschweig 1829 digitized .
  • Forty-five plates with 133 geometric figures after Euclid and Lorenz for the blind. 1839.
  • German primer for the blind, for learning the phonetic signs, sounds, syllables, words, parts of speech and signs, as well as the word sequence in general. 1843.
  • An arithmetic book for the blind. without year.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 40 , 166
  2. ↑ Iris Flenker: Lachmann, Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolf. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1996, p. 360.
  3. ^ A b c Paul Zimmermann :  Lachmann, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 523-525.
  4. ^ Dieter Lent: Of cold winters and hot summers. Weather observation and events in the state of Braunschweig since the early Middle Ages: a journey through the unexplored climate history of Southeast Lower Saxony. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein , Braunschweig 2007, Volume 88, pp. 19f. mwNew.
  5. ↑ Iris Flenker: Lachmann, Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolf. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 19th and 20th centuries. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1996, p. 361.
personal data
SURNAME Lachmann, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lachmann, Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, naturalist and founder of the Braunschweig Institute for the Blind
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1861
Place of death Wiesbaden