Wilhelm Ludwig Willius

Wilhelm Ludwig Willius (also Wilhelm Ludwig Will , born August 25, 1726 in Emmendingen ; † March 24, 1786 ibid) was a German physician and fossil collector .

Life

Wilhelm Ludwig Willius studied medicine at the University of Halle and received his doctorate in 1748 under Johann Juncker . He then became a general practitioner in Emmendingen. Later he became physicist in Emmendingen, margravial councilor of Baden and last worked as rural physician for the margraviate of Hochberg. In 1777 Willius was the attending physician of Cornelia Schlosser , the sister of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , who died on June 8, 1777 four weeks after the birth of her second daughter in Emmendingen.

Willius was a passionate collector of fossils and supplied the Margravine Caroline Louise of Baden with fossils.

On March 7, 1762 he was elected a member ( matriculation no. 647 ) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Leonides IV .

Fonts

Dissertatio inauguralis chemico medica de acidorum dulcificatorum respectu ad sanitatem, morbos et sanationem . Halae Magdebvrgicae 1748 digitized
Description of the natural condition in the Marggravschaft Hochberg . Verlag der Valentin Bischoffischen Kunst- und Buchhandlung, Nuremberg 1783 Digitized

literature

General archive for regional, national and international studies, their literature and aids to the year 1786 . First piece, Göttingen 1787, p. 159 digitized
Gaston Mayer : Mineral and fossil supplier to Margravine Caroline Louise of Baden in southern Baden and in Switzerland (1764–1781). In: Das Markgräflerland, NF 6 (37), Schopfheim 1975, pp. 316-320

Web links

Member entry of Wilhelm Ludwig Will at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
Works by and about Wilhelm Ludwig Willius in the German Digital Library
Literature by and about Wilhelm Ludwig Willius in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, directory of the members of the academy, according to the chronological order, p. 225 ( archive.org ).

personal data
SURNAME	Willius, Wilhelm Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Leonides IV .; Will, Wilhelm Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH	Emmendingen
DATE OF DEATH	March 24, 1786
Place of death	Emmendingen

[1] Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, directory of the members of the academy, according to the chronological order, p. 225 ( archive.org ).