Johann Bernhard Fischer

Johann Bernhard Fischer, (pseudonym: Mining of Hinterbergen; born July 28, 1685 in Lübeck, † July 8, 1772 on the estate Hinterbergen in Riga ) was a German physician and writer.

Life

Johann Bernhard Fischer, born July 28, 1685 in Lübeck, moved the age of two with his parents to Riga. He graduated in medicine at the universities of Halle, Jena, Leiden and Amsterdam. Then he traveled to England and France.

As a result, Johann Bernhard Fischer headed from 1710 a doctor's office in Riga. 1733 he was appointed second Stadtphysikus. For this purpose, called Empress Anna Johann Bernhard Fischer to their personal physician, archiater and Director of the Russian medicine being. Johann Bernhard Fischer, of the Emperor Charles VI. raised to the peerage, leaning after the accession of Empress Elisabeth from the Archiaterstelle offered to him and retired to his small estate Hinterbergen in Riga.

From this time Fischer wrote several medical and natural history writings, such as " Of the causes of white hair in animals ". He also issued a " Livländisches husbandry book" as well as several essays on the rinderpest. Moreover, Fischer described under the pseudonym mining of Hinterbergen in his Alexandrinerdichtung " General and own winter and summer lust with under mixed physical and moral considerations ", published in 1745, following the example Barthold Heinrich Brockes " earthly pleasure in God," the pleasures of his self-created Tusculums.

Johann Bernhard Fischer died on July 8, 1772 three weeks before his 87th birthday on his estate Hinterbergen.