Johann Friedrich Fuchs (Mediziner)

Johann Friedrich Fuchs (* September 4, 1774 in Weißbach; † August 8, 1828 in Jena) was a German physician and university teacher.

Life

Fuchs had laid his educational foundations at the school in Themar and attended the Gymnasium Schleusingen in 1790. On April 30, 1796, he matriculated at the University of Jena to pursue philosophical and medical studies. Here he became a member of the Latin Society in Jena, was especially encouraged by Justus Christian Loder, and earned the degree of doctor of medicine on August 27, 1801. After Loder’s departure from Jena, Fuchs took over medical lectures at the Jena college in 1803. On June 21, 1803, he was appointed associate professor of anatomy at the University of Würzburg, where he taught anatomy and pathological anatomy. In the fall of 1805, he returned to Jena, where he assumed the third full professorship of anatomy and the chair of anthropology and veterinary medicine at the University of Jena, and received the title of Hofrat von Sachsen Weimar

In 1811 he rose to the second professorship of medicine and later to the first professorship of medicine. As he was in poor health and suffered from nervous weakness, he was retired in 1836. Fuchs also participated in the organizational tasks of the Jena Salana. Thus he was several times dean of the medical faculty and in the winter semesters 1809, 1811, 1813, 1815, 1819, 1821 rector of the alma mater. Fuchs wrote articles in the general medicinischen Annalen, in the general Anzeiger of the Germans, and on veterinary medicine. He became a foundation member of the Gesellschaft für die gesamte Mineralogie in Jena and its secretary. His extensive library was sold to the highest bidder on October 29, 1829, for which an auction catalogue was prepared.

Works (selection)

Diss. de Phthisi et Synizesi pupillae. Jena 1801
Diss. anat. chirur. disquisitiones de perforatione membranae tympani, praecipue de vera hujus operationis indicatione, exhibens. Jena 1809
Progr. de strumae extirpatione per ligaturam. Jena 1810
Catalogus praelectionum, publice privatimque in Academia Jenensi per hiemem anni cIɔICCCXI inde a die XIV Octobris habendarum. Jena 1811
Programma Historiae anatomicae prolapsus nativi vesicae urinariae inversae in corpore femineo observati. Part I. Jena 1810, (Deanery program for the doctorate of Christian Wilhelm Albert Schröder (Coburg))
Progr. Historiae anatom. prolapsus vosic. urinar. inversae in copore femino observati. Part II 1812, (Deanery program for the doctorate of Johann Christian Friedrich August Kerst (Ohrdruff))
Progr. Historiae anatom. prolapsus vosic. urinar. inversae in copore femino observati. Part III 1814, (Deanery program for the doctorate of Carl Christoph Filtzer (Sangerhausen))
Progr. Historiae anatom. prolapsus vosic. urinar. inversae in copore femino observati. Part IV. 1814 (Dean’s program for the doctorate of Albert Richard Constantin Spindler)
Progr. Historiae anatom. prolapsus vosic. urinar. inversae in copore femino observati. Part V. 1822 (Deanery program for the doctorate of Ernst Eduard Kummer and Wilhelm Gustav Hebenstreit)
Progr. Historiae anatom. prolapsus vosic. urinar. inversae in copore femino observati. Part VI. 1822 (Deanery program for the graduation of August Ernst Schuster (* 13 April 1799 in Ölsnitz) and Albert Richard Constantin Spindler (* 23 March 1798 in Eisenberg)^[1], Online)
Progr. Historiae anatom. prolapsus vosic. urinar. inversae in copore femino observati. Part VII. Jena 1824 (deanery program for the doctorate of Otto Schuderhoff (* April 1, 1782 in Altenburg) and Johann Ernst Zeising (* 1798 in Brehna), Online)

Literature

Georg Gottlieb Güldenapfel: Literary museum for the grand ducal Saxon lands. J. G. Schreiber, Jena, 1816, p. 141 (Digital copy)
Friedrich August Schmidt: New necrology of the Germans. Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Ilmenau, 1830, vol. 4, part 2, p. 633 (Digital copy)
Heinrich Carl Abraham Eichstädt: Annales Academiae Jenensis. Cröker, Jena, 1823, vol. 1, p. 26 (Digital copy)
Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel: Das gelehrte Teutschland oder Lexikon der jetzt lebenden teutschen Schriftsteller. Lemgo, 5th ed. 1820, vol. 17, p. 643 (Digital copy); vol. 22, 2nd part, p. 259 (Digital copy)
Johann Samuel Ersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber: General Encyclopedia of the Sciences and Arts. Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1849, 1st section, 50th vol. p. 391 (Digital copy)
August Hirsch: Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Aerzte aller Zeiten und Völker. Verlag Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 1885, vol. 2, p. 459 (Online)
Henning Bärmig: Die Personalbibliographien der an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Alma Mater Julia zu Würzburg von 1582 bis 1803 lehrenden Professoren mit biographischen Angaben. Medical dissertation, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1969, p. 80.

Notes

↑ † 21 October 1840 in Eisenberg, Source: Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen, 1840, Zweiter Theil, Weimar 1842, p. 1408

Web link

Works by and about Johann Friedrich Fuchs in the German Digital Library

Personal data
NAME	Fox, Johann Friedrich
SHORT DESCRIPTION	german physician and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	4. September 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH	White Creek
STERBEDATUM	8. August 1828
DESTINATION	Jena

[1] † 21 October 1840 in Eisenberg, Source: Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen, 1840, Zweiter Theil, Weimar 1842, p. 1408

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