Daniel de Superville (1696–1773)

Daniel de Superville, Daniel of Superville ( born December 2, 1696 Rotterdam, † November 16, 1773 ) was a Dutch physician in the Prussian, bayreuth - Brandenburg and Brunswick services. He was the first chancellor of the University of Erlangen.

Life

Daniel de Superville originally came from a French Huguenot family who had arrived as religious refugees in the Netherlands. He was the third son of the merchant Jacob de Superville; his uncle Daniel de Superville ( the Elder) († 1728) was a noted Reformed theologian.

He studied medicine and science was on November 1, 1718 at the University of Utrecht for Dr. med. doctorate. He went to Leyden and enrolled at the University of Leiden. Since Christmas 1719 he was a member of the Walloon church in Leiden and was elected in 1721 to her deacon ( head ). Here he married on April 26, 1722 Katharine Elisabeth le Cointe.

In June 1722 he left suffering. He went to Stettin, where it the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I ( Prussia) was appointed as the Court and French Coloniemedicus. At high school, Stettin he should get a professorship of anatomy and surgery, which was already assigned elsewhere. He began in 1724 to hold free medical demonstrations; on May 9, 1726, he was at the insistence of the king as an associate professor of anatomy and surgery.

1725 member of the newly established Collegium was medicum; he received the title of Landphysicus for Prussian Pomerania and was responsible for the visitation of the Pomeranian pharmacies. The Imperial Academy of Sciences appointed him on 10 December 1739 the name Apollophanes III to their member, as well as the Society of Sciences in Berlin.

In Berlin, he became the personal physician to King Frederick William I, he healed of the dropsy. 1738 recommended him to the Crown Prince Frederick to his sister Wilhelmine, Margravine of Brandenburg- Bayreuth. Superville treated them in 1738 and joined soon after, all in their services. In Bayreuth de Superville real Councillor and Director of the mines became the personal physician appointed. After he was already "To the Three Globes " recorded in Berlin in the Masonic Lodge, he was a member in 1741 of the founding members of the Bayreuth Lodge Zur Sonne and became its secretary.

When was the establishment of the new Frederick University, which first opened on March 21, 1742 in Bayreuth, then moved to Erlangen and here re-opened on November 4, 1743 appointed the Margrave Friedrich III. daniel de Superville as Director of the University. As with the margrave's Declaration of 16 November 1746, the Directory was transformed into a Curatorium, was de Superville Chancellor ( Cancellarius perpetuus ) of the University. He gave the University 's library and a collection of physical, anatomical and surgical instruments.

In addition to the university administration, he was repeatedly employed as an envoy for the Marquis, so 1745 in The Hague. For reasons not entirely clear reasons he laid on March 2, 1748 for health reasons from his office.

De Superville first moved to Bremen. Mid- 1749, he came to Brunswick and became a doctor at Duke Karl I, the brother of the Margravine of Bayreuth. In 1751 he was a ducal ambassador in Holland. 1754 he suggested to the Duke establishing the art and Naturaliencabinets, later emerged from the the Ducal Museum and thus the two museums today Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum and the Natural History Museum. 1755 he undertook a long journey to Holland and France, where he earned several collections of ancient coins, cut stones, statues, inscriptions, and curiosities for the Duke. Even anatomical specimens were prepared in Super Villes statement for the museum.

The consequences of the Seven Years War brought these collecting activities to a standstill and led to Daniel de Superville returned to his homeland. The Duke granted him in 1761 a generous pension. Superville moved to Voorburg, near The Hague,

After the death of his wife in 1769 married in May 1770, he Marie Marthe, daughter of Pierre le Cointe and Elisabeth de Gounyle and widow of Corneille de Normandie, Baillif the city of Vlissingen.

He died in Rotterdam on November 16, 1773 and was buried in the French Church ( Vrouwe Kerk ) in Leiden.

Works

• De sanguine et sanguificatione. Utrecht 1718 ( dissertation).
• L. Henning in suo per compositione theriacae mithridiatii et labore et bonum successum optimum eventum opto. Stettin 1725th
• Progr de anatome a multis calumniis et falsis imputationibus vindicanda. Stettin 1728.
• From the true benefit of menschl. Urinbesehens. Stettin 1728.
• Gedancken From Quack Salbern, Medicis and patients: What is everyone for teach kan as to Being itself beware conservation ago Quack Salbern and after- Aertzten, Hergegen should entrust righteousness and gewissenhafften Medicis and honor same. Stettin 1733. Digitized copy of the SLUB Dresden ( VD18 ).
• Some Reflections on generation, and on Monsters, With a Description of Some Particular Monsters: By Daniel de Superville, Privy Counsellor and Chief Physician to His Most Serene Highness the Margrave of Brandenburg- Bareith, President of the College of Physicians, Director of the Mines and of All Medicinal Affairs in the Margravite, member of the Imperial Academy Naturae Curiosorum, and of the Royal Society of Berlin. Translated from the French by Phil Hen. Zollman F.R.S. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 41 ( 1739 ), pp. 294-307 ( doi: 10.1098/rstl.1739.0044 digitized ).