Friedrich von Wendt

Friedrich von Wendt ( * September 28 1738 in Sorau, † September 24, 1818 in Erlangen, Germany ) was a German physician and molecular biologist.

Life

With 20 years Wendt enrolled at the University of Halle (Saale ) for the subject of medicine. Later he moved to Göttingen where he successfully completed his studies in 1762 with his thesis.

He then settled down as a general practitioner in Genthin near Magdeburg. After a few years Wendt became the Stadtphysicus of Pless ( Upper Silesia ). From here, the Prince of Anhalt engaged him as personal physician.

In 1778 he accepted a professorship at the University of Erlangen, where he worked as a professor of pharmacology. There he sat down very one for modern medical care. In his private apartment Erlanger Wendt founded a "Collegium clinicum " in which his students were allowed to examine and treat patients on an outpatient basis under his supervision.

Around 1780 was converted into a " Institutum Clinicum " with support from the university this Collegium, which Wendt directed until his death.

For some time now Wendt was a member of the Leopoldina ( German Academy of Sciences ). In 1810, when her ninth president, the botanist Johann Christian Daniel Schreber, died, was chosen in 1811 Wendt as his successor. As such, he chose the company name Diocles Carystius IV and held this office until 1817.

This year, Wendt gave up all offices and retired into private life.

On May 27, 1814 Frederick Wendt was raised as the Royal Bavarian Secret Council through the award of civil Merit of the Bavarian Crown in the personal knighthood; on August 15, 1814 was the enrollment at the Knight class in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Family

Friedrich von Wendt married on June 26, 1777 Auguste Friederike to Isenburg and Büdingen ( 1743-1783 ) widow of Louis Casimir to Isenburg and Büdingen ( 1710-1775 ) and daughter of Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg - Wernigerode. They had two children. The daughter Christiane Maria and the lawyer Christian Ernst von Wendt ( 1778-1842 ).

Works

• Historia tracheotomiae nuperrime administratae (1774 )
• News of the establishment of the institu clinici in Erlangen (1780-1785)
• Observationes de pleuritide et peripneumonia ( 1762)