Laurentius Blumentrost
. Lawrence Blumentrost the younger, she also (Robert ) Lorenz Blumentrost, Russian Лаврентий Лаврентьевич Блюментрост, in Russian transcription Lawrentij Lawrentjewitsch Blumentrost, (born 29 Oktoberjul / November 8 1692greg in Moscow, . † 27 Märzjul / April 7 1755greg. . in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian physician, the physician of the Tsar was.
He was the son of Lawrence Blumentrost the Elder, German-born physician to the Russian Tsar, and studied after lessons with the tutor Justus Samuel Scharschmidt from 1706 at the University of Halle, then in Oxford and Leiden, where he studied under Herman Boerhaave and in 1714 received his doctorate was. After his return he became the personal physician of Princess Natalia Alexeyevna. He continued his studies abroad in Paris and Amsterdam continued (with Frederik Ruysch, of which he bought anatomical specimens on behalf of the Russian government for the Kunstkammer ). Back in St. Petersburg, he explored mineral medicinal springs on behalf of Tsar Peter I.
As a Scottish physician to the Czar Robert Erskine died in 1718 was Blumentrost his successor. He also took over Erskine's assistant Johann Daniel Schumacher, who had studied in Strasbourg and Erskine was responsible for the library and the Kunstkammer of the Tsar.
In 1724 he founded at the request of Peter I the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg (first meeting in 1725 ) and its first president. He took ( with the support of Christian Wolff, he contacted ) eminent scientists at the Academy, as Nicholas II Bernoulli, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonard Euler ( 1727), Christian Goldbach, Georg Bernhard Bilfinger, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Louis De l' Isle de la Croyère. He remained under the Empress Catherine I. President of the Academy and under Peter II, whom he succeeded in 1728 to Moscow, where the court was transferred. The business of the Academy, he left his secretary Johann Daniel Schumacher, which led to disagreements in the academy. After the fall of Peter II, he lost his influence, though he remained until 1733 President of the Academy and returned to Saint Petersburg.
His brothers John Deodatus (1676-1756) and Christian were also court physicians in Russia. John was also the personal physician of Peter I ( and his army doctor and archiater ), had studied in Halle ( Ph.D.) and suffering. He fell under Empress Anna in disgrace and died in poverty as the last of the flowers solace in Russia.