Markus Herz

Marcus Herz (also Markus Herz, born January 17, 1747 in Berlin, † January 19, 1803 ) was a German physician and philosopher of the Enlightenment. He was married to the salonière Henriette Herz.

Life

Marcus Herz was born in 1747 as the son of poor parents, the father worked as a Torah scribe of the Berlin Jewish community. His parents looked for her son from a commercial career, and sent him in 1762 to Königsberg, where he began an apprenticeship with a merchant, but these broke after a short time. Instead, he enrolled in 1766 at the University of Königsberg to study medicine and philosophy one. Here he attended lectures at, among others, Immanuel Kant, who recognized his talent and this reconnaissance as one of his favorite students with letters of recommendation, among others endowed to Moses Mendelssohn.

For financial reasons, Marcus Herz abandoned his studies in Königsberg in 1770 and went in September of the same year returned to Berlin. Here mediated him Moses Mendelssohn to David Friedlander, which allowed Marcus Herz medical studies at the Berlin Collegium Medico - chirurgicum. In order to obtain the doctoral degree, he enrolled in 1772 at the Fridericiana in Halle, where he eventually in 1774 with his dissertation De varia energia naturae in morbis Acutis atque chronicis received his Doctor of Medicine.

He returned to Berlin and received a medical assistant location at the Jewish Hospital, of which he became manager in 1782. In the following years he became one of the most distinguished Jewish physicians of Berlin. From 1776 held Marcus Herz to a selected audience lectures on medicine, philosophy, and experimental physics. Listeners were in the following years, among other things, Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, Karl Abraham Zedlitz and members of the royal family to Frederick II for his professional commitment, he was appointed by the Prince of Waldeck personal physician and privy councilor in 1785 and received two years later by King Friedrich William II the title of professor of philosophy for life with annual salary. A Reception in the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences refused to admit him as a member of Berlin's Jewish community.

Already in 1779 Marcus Herz had married the daughter of the Portuguese physician and director of the Jewish Hospital Benjamin de Lemos, Henriette de Lemos. Both have been the host of a salons of Berlin, which was a central meeting place for superscript guests from politics and culture in the following years. Karl Philipp Moritz was a friend of Marcus Herz ' and for many years also his patient. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, too, Salomon Maimon and Johann Jacob Engel were among his friends. Marcus Herz died in 1803 of a lung disease. His death is in Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingks poem Marcus Herz, died the 20th of January 1803 reflected.

Works

  • Considerations from the speculative world wisdom. Königsberg 1771
  • Coffee frank discussions of two Jewish audience about the Jews Pinkus. Berlin 1772
  • Essay on the taste and the causes of its diversity. Jelgava 1776
  • Letters to physicians. Berlin 1777
  • Plan of all medical sciences. 1782
  • Essay on the dizziness. 1786
  • Story of his [ Moses Mendelssohn's ] final illness and death. 1786
  • Based on the lectures on the experimental physics. 1787
  • A missive to the editor of Meassefim about to Early burying the dead among the Jews. 1789
  • Something Psychological- Medical: Moritz medical history. Jena, 1798
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