Johann Stieglitz

John Goldfinch ( also: John Goldfinch, Goldfinch * as Israel on 31 March 1767 in Arolsen, † October 30, 1840 in Hannover ) was a German doctor, physician and author, who worked in Hanover in 1789.

Life

Family

Israel Stieglitz was born the son of protected Jews and the Prince Waldeck 's chamber agents Lazarus Stieglitz and his wife Friederike Luise, born Marc and was the brother of the later banker Ludwig Stieglitz. The poet Heinrich Wilhelm Stieglitz was his nephew.

Career

Israel Stieglitz attended the gymnasium in Gotha, initially studied philosophy in Berlin and from November 1786 Medicine in Göttingen.

Since his studies in Göttingen, he was a friend of Wilhelm von Humboldt, he even saved his life while bathing: "He ( Humboldt ) was bathing with his friend Stieglitz, the ex post Hanoverian personal physician at Göttingen in the evening in the leash and ran into a vortex, the fortriß him, after a vain struggle he thought he was lost and called to his friend: ' Stieglitz, I'm drowning, but it does nothing! ' But this jumped after him and saved him. "

Stieglitz was awarded his doctorate in 1789 in Göttingen and was subsequently settled as a physician in Hanover. In 1792 he married Jente ( Sophie Jeanette ) Ephraim ( 1764-1843 ), daughter of the Berlin entrepreneur Benjamin Veitel Ephraim and his wife Gutche. In 1800, the couple converted to the two sons from Judaism to Christianity, was baptized Lutheran and Stieglitz was called since John Goldfinch.

He was court physician in 1802, 1806 first Leibmedikus, 1820 and finally in 1832 Obermedizinalrat Councillor and director of Obermedizinalkollegiums in Hanover, and thus "first and presiding member of all built in Hanover Medical Colleges for Civil and military." These middle-class career he would not have been possible without Christian baptism.

Already in 1805 Stieglitz had been included in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Stieglitz published a long time, " detailed reviews or evaluations of important medicinischer phenomena " and fought successfully heresies of medicine as the Brownian system and mesmerism, such as in the treatment of scarlet fever, which his name became known far beyond the borders of the Kingdom of Hanover.

Johann Stieglitz's Grade II listed monument on the New Town Cemetery, for which the court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves demonstrably delivered a design that bears the inscription:

" To help the suffering humanity, to seek truth, to bless his people, was until the last breath of his beautiful life sacred purpose. "

Honors

Works

  • Dissertatio De inavgvralis morbis venereis larvatis, Dissertation, Göttingen 1789
  • About the Zusammenseyn of the physicians at the bedside, and beyond their means among themselves at all, Hahn, Hannover 1798
  • Attempt at testing and improving the now habitual of treatment of scarlet fever, Hahn, Hannover 1807
  • Pathological studies, 2 volumes, Hahn, Hannover 1832
  • About homeopathy, Hahn, Hannover 1835
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