Georg Erhard Hamberger

Georg Erhard Hamberger ( born December 21, 1697 in Jena, † July 22, 1755 ) was a German physician.

Life

His father was a mathematics and physics professor Georg Albrecht Hamberger ( 1662-1716 ). From 1714 he studied at his father's request, these subjects, but soon realized his passion for medicine and secretly attended the anatomical lectures of Johann Adrian Slevogt ( 1653-1726 ). In a University gardener, he learned the rudiments of botany. After the death of his father in 1716, he turned not to the medicine. Slevogt put him in the anatomy of the production of certain preparations for demonstrations. Practical medicine he studied with Johann Adolph Wedel (1675-1747), whose daughter Sophia Margaretha he later married. In 1717 he earned his Master of Arts and in 1721 he became a doctor of medicine.

1724 he was appointed Landphysicus the circle Weimar 1726 extraord to Prof.. of mathematics and physics in Jena chosen. Three years later, the management of the Landphysicates was conferred on him. Later he was appointed in Jena Councillor and full professor of physics. In 1744 he became full professor of botany, anatomy and surgery, and in 1748, after the death of his father, Rector of the University and Professor of Chemistry and of practical medicine.

As a supporter of Jatro Physics (application of physics to cure ) he believed to be able to carry out all life processes on simple physical laws, and ran about with Albrecht von Haller in a fight. It was only on his deathbed he admitted that Haller is right.