Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost

Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost ( born November 27, 1715 in Rosperwenda (Saxony- Anhalt), † December 2, 1794 in Duisburg, Germany ) was a German physician and Protestant theologian and described for the first time named after him Leidenfrost effect.

Life

Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost was born on 27 November 1715 in Rosperwenda the son of the local rector Johann Heinrich Leidenfrost. Leidenfrost first studied Protestant theology, then medicine in Giessen, Leipzig and Halle. 1741, he received his doctorate with a thesis on the movement of the human body. Here are some travel, and participate as a field doctor in the First Silesian War.

In 1743 Leidenfrost then followed a call to a medical professor at the University of Duisburg. In 1745 he married a native of Duisburg Anna Cornelia Kalckhoff. The couple had seven children, including Johanna Ulricke (1752-1819), who later became the wife of the Protestant theologian Elias Christoph Krafft (1748-1798) should be. One of her sons was Christian Krafft.

Leidenfrost, who had besides medicine to read physics and chemistry, was several times president of the University from 1751. The fact that this office as much as required to resolve such erudition, witness reports from the time of the French occupation: So had Leidenfrost example in 1760 with the mobilization of as much persistence as funds colleagues Otto Ludwig von Eichmann free again from the arrest. The French commander had seized a bargain offered by the booksellers of the university diatribe against Madame de Pompadour and made ​​the professorial colleagues responsible for this. However, the arranged arrest, which was completed in permanent accompanied by a French soldier, his nature was less threatening than a nuisance after. ( by: Roden 1979, I, 64).

1756 Leidenfrost was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. In 1773 he was elected to the Section of Medicine Leopoldina. In Duisburg Leidenfrost published his more than seventy journals, including the 1756 published work, De Aquae Communis Nonnullis Qualitatibus Tractatus, which deals with the later named after the author Leidenfrost effect. Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost passed away on December 2, 1794 in Duisburg. On 1 October 2006, at the old school building in Rosperwenda a plaque in honor of JG Leidenfrost inaugurated.

Works

• De aquae communis nonnullis qualitatibus. Duisburg (1756 )
• Opuscula physico- chemica et medica. 4 vols Duisburg ( 1797-1798 )