Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann
Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann | |
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| Born | 17 February 1756 |
| Died | 9 March 1801 (aged 45) |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Jena |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | medicine chemistry |
| Institutions | Halle Zeulenroda Altdorf |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernst Gottfried Baldinger |
| Other academic advisors | Christian Gottlob Heyne |
Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann (17 February 1756 – 9 March 1801) was a German medical doctor.[1]
Biography
[edit]He was born at Zeulenroda, in Upper Saxony, on 17 February 1756. His parents were the physician Johann Samuel Ackermann (1705-1762) and Eva Rosine Oberreuther (1722-1776), the daughter of the tanning master Paul Steinmüller.[2]
Johann attended the University of Jena at only fifteen years old and was taught there by Ernst Gottfried Baldinger. The two relocated to Göttingen where he studied, apart from medicine, the classical sciences, as a student of Christian Gottlob Heyne. Ackermann was promoted in 1775 to private lecturer at the medical faculty of Halle, where he lived for two years. Afterwards, he returned to Zeulenroda to practice medicine and physics. In 1786, he followed a call to Altdorf, where he was appointed professor of chemistry. In 1794, he accepted a position as chair of applied medicine and - at the same time - a position as head of the local hospital for the poor. He died at the age of 45 from tuberculosis.
The main focus of Ackermann's scientific works lies in his historical studies of the medical sciences during the Middle Ages. He collected several rare medical writings and translated foreign publications into German. He wrote Institutiones Historiae Medicinae (Nuremberg, 1792) and Institutiones Therapiae Generalis (Nuremberg and Altdorf, 1784-1795).[3]
Publications
[edit]- Regimen sanitatis Salerni, Stendal, 1790
- Institutiones historicae medicinae, Nuremberg, 1792
- Bemerkungen über die Kenntnis und Kur einiger Krankheiten, 7 booklets in old German language, 1794-1800
Sources
[edit]- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie - online version
References
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- 1756 births
- 1801 deaths
- People from Zeulenroda-Triebes
- People from the Imperial County of Reuss
- 18th-century German physicians
- University of Jena alumni
- University of Göttingen alumni
- Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
- Academic staff of the University of Altdorf
- 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis deaths in the Holy Roman Empire