Johann Joseph Dömling
Johann Joseph Dömling (13 January 1771 – 7 March 1803) was a German physician and professor of physiology at the University of Würzburg.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Dömling was born on 13 January 1771 in Merkershausen, near Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld, Bavaria.[2][3] His father was the farmer Johannes Dömling and his mother was Anna Dorothea Dömling, née Eschbach.[3] Dömling first attended the village school in Merkershausen and then learned some Latin in the nearby Bad Königshofen. His parents were unable to afford a gymnasium education.[4] After being educated at the Juliusspitälisches Studentenkonvikt in the Juliusspital,[5] a boarding school for gifted but impoverished students, he studied at the University of Würzburg, supported by prince-bishop Franz Ludwig von Erthal, who paid for his books and surgical instruments. After Erthal's 1795 death, Dömling's finances were uncertain, and he considered moving to Hamburg with the goal of becoming a naval surgeon in England. However, the new prince-bishop, Georg Karl Ignaz von Fechenbach zu Laudenbach, continued to support him financially and he was able to finish his studies.[6] Dömling received a doctorate in medicine on 23 June 1797.[7] His medical thesis was Dissertatio inauguralis sistens morborum gastricorum acutorum pathologiam and his advisor was Carl Caspar von Siebold.[8][1] The main topic of the thesis is the function and the mechanism of action of bile.[7]
Academic career and death[edit]
After finishing his studies in Würzburg, Dömling went on a study tour. He travelled to Vienna, where he met the physiologist Johann Peter Frank and the obstetrician Johann Lucas Boër and other important physicians. In Göttingen, he met the obstetrician Friedrich Benjamin Osiander. Other stages of his journey were Prague, Dresden, Leipzig, Jena (where he met the philosophers Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling) and Berlin.[6][2] He succeeded Georg Christoph von Siebold (died 1798) as professor of physiology in Würzburg in 1799.[9] Dömling, who had originally supported a mechanistic physiology, became a proponent of romantic natural philosophy.[10] His textbook Lehrbuch der Physiologie des Menschen appeared in Göttingen in two volumes in 1802 and 1803.[11] Dömling was the first to suggest a normal endogenous presence of carbon monoxide in 1803.[12]
Dömling was also the Stadtarmenarzt, the pauper's doctor of the city of Würzburg.[10] He died at the age of 32 from typhoid fever and pneumonia.[13] A fake letter published in an 1803 journal claimed he was murdered.[14]
Works[edit]
- Doemling, Johann Joseph (1797). Dissertatio Inauguralis Sistens Morborum Gastricorum Acutorum Pathologiam (in Latin).
- Doemling, Johann Joseph (1798). Ist die Leber Reinigungsorgan? Is the liver a purifying organ? (in German).
- Doemling, Johann Joseph (1800). Giebt es ursprüngliche Krankheiten der Säfte, welche sind es, und welche sind es nicht?. Are there original diseases of the juices, which are they and which are not? (in German)[15]
- Doemling, Johann Joseph (1802). Kritik der vorzüglichsten Vorstellungsarten über Organisation und Lebensprincip (in German). Bey Franz Xaver Rienner, privilegirten Buchhändler.
- Doemling, Johann Joseph (1802). Lehrbuch der Physiologie des Menschen: Generelle Physiologie. Specielle Physiologie. Phänomene der Sensibilität und Aeusserungen der Irritabilität (in German). Dieterich.
- Doemling, Johann Joseph (1803). Archiv für die Theorie der Heilkunde. Archive for the theory of medicine. (in German)
- Doemling, Johann Joseph (1803). Lehrbuch der Physiologie des Menschen: Specielle Physiologie. Wirkungen der Reproductionskraft (in German). Dieterich.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Hirsch 1877.
- ^ a b Gerabek 2007, p. 318.
- ^ a b Engelhardt 2023, p. 111.
- ^ Gerabek 1995, p. 238.
- ^ Sticker 1932, p. 486.
- ^ a b Sticker 1932, p. 553.
- ^ a b Gerabek 1995, p. 239.
- ^ Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg (1992). Würzburger Hochschulschriften : 1581 - 1803 ; Bestandsverzeichnis. p. 281.
- ^ Sticker 1932, p. 533.
- ^ a b Gerabek, Werner E.; Haage, Bernhard D.; Keil, Gundolf; Wegner, Wolfgang (3 June 2011). Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte (in German). Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-097694-6.
- ^ Sticker 1932, pp. 553–554.
- ^ Hopper, Christopher P.; Zambrana, Paige N.; Goebel, Ulrich; Wollborn, Jakob (June 2021). "A brief history of carbon monoxide and its therapeutic origins". Nitric Oxide. 111–112: 45–63. doi:10.1016/j.niox.2021.04.001. PMID 33838343. S2CID 233205099.
- ^ Engelhardt 2023, p. 112.
- ^ Gerabek 1995, p. 240.
- ^ Doemling, Johann Joseph (1800). Giebt es ursprüngliche Krankheiten der Säfte: welche sind es, und welche sind es nicht? (in German). Göbhardt.
Sources[edit]
- Engelhardt, Dietrich von (2023). "Johann Joseph Dömling". Medizin in Romantik und Idealismus. frommann-holzboog Verlag. pp. 111–114. doi:10.5771/9783772836503-iii111. ISBN 978-3-7728-3650-3.
- Gerabek, Werner (1995). Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling und die Medizin der Romantik : Studien zu Schellings Würzburger Periode. Frankfurt am Main ; New York: P. Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-48865-2.
- Gerabek, Werner E. (31 December 2007). "Dömling, Johann Joseph". In Gerabek, Werner E.; Haage, Bernhard D.; Keil, Gundolf; Wegner, Wolfgang (eds.). Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter. pp. 318–319. doi:10.1515/9783110976946-008. ISBN 978-3-11-097694-6.
- "Carbon monoxide poisoning". MedLink Neurology. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- August Hirsch (1877), "Doemling, Johann Josef", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 5, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 288–289
- Sticker, Georg (1932). "Entwicklungsgeschichte der Medizinischen Fakultät an der Alma Mater Julia". In Buchner, Max (ed.). Aus der Vergangenheit der Universität Würzburg: Festschrift zum 350jährigen Bestehen der Universität (in German). Berlin: Springer. pp. 383–757. ISBN 978-3-642-99578-1. OCLC 238793138.
External links[edit]
- Doemling, J J at Kalliope-Verbund
- Johann Joseph Dömling at wuerzburgwiki.de
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