Johann Ludwig Choulant

Johann Ludwig Choulant ( born November 12, 1791 in Dresden, † July 18, 1861 in Dresden ) was a German physician and medical historian.

Life and work

Johann Choulant studied medicine from 1811 onwards at the Collegium Medico - chirurgicum in Dresden and from May 1813 the University of Leipzig. In April 1817 he took up his first job as a doctor and obstetrician in Altenburg. In the same year Choulant staff at the Medical Real dictionary by Johann Friedrich Pierer was. In 1818 he received his doctorate. 1821 Johann Coulant took a job as a doctor at the Royal Catholic hospital pen in Dresden- Friedrichstadt.

1822 Choulant lecturer at the Royal Surgical- Medical Academy, which existed from 1815 to 1864 and is considered the forerunner of the Medical Academy Dresden. There he initially held lectures on practical medicine. In 1823 he was appointed professor of theoretical medicine and appointed head of the clinic. In the same year he was co-editor of the journal for natural and healing. 1828 took over Choulant professor of practical medicine. From 1843 until his retirement in 1860 he held the office of, according to Carl Gustav Carus, second and last rector of the Royal Surgical- Medical Academy.

From 1833 onwards, Ludwig Choulant suggested in addition a management career. In 1836 he became a privy councilor, was appointed Privy Councillor and Medizinalreferenten in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior 1844. In this capacity he worked until his death in 1861.

The focus Choulants scientific achievements lay in works on the history and especially the literary history of medicine. He also made ​​many contributions to the Saxon Medizinalordnung and issued opinions on medico- legal issues.

The painter and architect Ludwig Theodor Choulant (1827-1900) was his son.

Writings (selection )

  • Johann Friedrich Pierer, Johann Ludwig Choulant: Medici African Real dictionary for hand use practischer physicians and surgeons and instructive list shall for educated persons of all ranks. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1816.
  • Karl Friedrich Haase, Johann Ludwig Choulant, M. Küstner, Friedrich Ludwig Meissner: enrichments for obstetrics, for the physiology and pathology of the woman and child. Leipzig 1821.
  • Johann Ludwig Choulant: panels on the history of medicine according to the order of their doctrines: From the earliest times to the close of the 18th century. Voss, Leipzig 1822.
  • Johann Ludwig Choulant: History and bibliography of anatomic illustration according to its relation to anatomic science and the visual arts: in addition to selection of illustrations by famous artists. Rudolph Weigel, Leipzig 1852 ( full text in the Google Book Search ).
  • Johann Ludwig Choulant: Graphical incunabula of natural history and medicine. Weigel, Leipzig 1858.
  • Johann Ludwig Choulant: Bibliotheca medico - historica sive Catalogus Librorum historicorum de re medica et scientia naturali systematicus. G. Olms, Leipzig 1842.
  • Johann Ludwig Choulant: The anatomical images of the 15th and 16th centuries: memorandum for the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the donated on September 19, 1818 Society for Nature and medicine to Dresden. E. Bloch man, Dresden 1843.
  • Johann Ludwig Choulant: Handbook of books customer for the older medicine to the knowledge of Greek, Latin and Arabic fonts in the medical times and bibliographic distinguish their various editions, translations and explanations. Voss, Leipzig 1841 ( full text in the Google Book Search ).
  • Andrew Duncen, Johann Ludwig Choulant: observations on the distinctive symptoms of the three main branches of the pulmonary consumption, together with their treatment. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1817.
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