Paul Gottlieb Werlhof

Paul Gottlieb Werlhof ( born March 24, 1699 Helmstedt, † July 26, 1767 in Hannover ) was a German physician and poet.

Life

Werlhof studied at the University of Helmstedt medicine at Brandanus meibomian (1695-1740), the son of his great-uncle Heinrich meibomian in the professor of anatomy and surgery Alexander Christian Gackenholz († 1717), Andreas Julius Boetticher, Johann Carl Spies and Lorenz Heister (1683 -1758 ). After graduating in 1721 he moved to Peine and works there for four years as a general practitioner. In 1723 he earned his doctorate at the University of Helmstedt.

1725 moved Werlhof on the advice of physician- August Johann Hugo to Hannover, took over the practice of the late Johann Andreas Plohr and married his daughter Johanna Christina ( 1703-1742 ). His skills as a doctor gave him great recognition soon. He had an extraordinarily high number of patients, including those from higher social circles, and became one of the most famous physicians of his time in Europe, consulted even from Moscow and Rome. In 1729 he was Hofmedicus, 1742 royal private physician and 1760 first as a successor to Hugo's personal physician. The invitation to a professorship in Helmstedt he refused and remained until his death in Hanover. In 1733 he produced a report for the new medical school. On his recommendation Albrecht von Haller was appointed in 1736 to Göttingen.

After Werlhof idiopathic thrombocytopenia is named as Werlhof's disease.

After the death of his first wife he married in 1743 the widow of Professor Hartmann 's rights in Kiel, Sarah Elisabeth ( 1709-1768 ), born Scriver, daughter of the budget Raths Scriver in Kiel. From this marriage the later Hanoverian jurist Wilhelm Gottfried Werlhof came from ( 1744-1832 ).

Werlhof was not only a gifted physician, but a great poet. He wrote poems and hymns. Werlhof was a friend of Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), also a renowned physician and poet.

Works

  • Observationes de febribus, praecipue intermittentibus et harum ex genere continuis etc. Hannover, 1732, 1745. Venice, 1757, 1764, 1784th
  • Cautiones medicae de limit andis laudibus et vituperiis morborum et remediorum. Hanover, 1734th
  • Disquisitio medica et philo logica de variolis et anthracibus, signis differentiis, Medelis disserit etc. Hanno verae, SUMT. haered. Nicolai foersteri, 1735.
  • Poems. In 1749. 2nd edition, 1756th
  • Opera Medica. 3 volumes. Hanno verae, imp. frat. Helwingiorum, 1775-1776.
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