Georg Gottlob Richter

Georg Gottlob Richter ( born February 4, 1694 Snow Mountain, † May 28, 1773 in Göttingen ) was a German physician.

Life

Georg Gottlob Richter was the son of the pastor and superintendent Georg Richter and his wife Johanna Maria, daughter of the stuff - born Lieutenant Georg Pinckerts. He attended school in Schneeberg and high school in Plauen, where he earned a university entrance and began in 1712 at the University of Leipzig, first studying philosophy. There was Judge Baccalaurus 1713 and 1714 with the defense of ortu & progressu morum humanorum master of the seven liberal arts.

After giving lectures in Leipzig and began to study medicine, he moved on July 22, 1716 at the University of Wittenberg. In the summer of the following year he moved to the University of Kiel, he continued his studies in Leiden in 1718 continued in 1719 returned back to Kiel and received his doctorate in 1720 as a doctor of medicine. In Kiel, he was then working as a doctor, was assessor of medical school and stopped at the university lectures. After he had turned down several offers, he became in 1728 physician to the Duke of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp and Prince-Bishop of Lübeck Adolf Frederick of Sweden in Eutin. In 1729 he became a real Justice.

1735, he was appointed by George II to Göttingen. There took over in 1736 as a royal judge Great Britain shear Councilor and personal physician, the first professor of medicine. He lectured on internal medicine and dietetics. He also read a Collegium encyclopaedicum and surgery. As a student of Hermann Boerhaave (1666-1738), he represented his doctrine, was considered thorough knowledge of the medical literature and had a very large library.

Its closed on May 11, 1731 marriage to Augusta Amalia, daughter of the Schleswig Holstein Council Gabriel Schreiber remained childless.

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