Johann Ludwig Choulant
Johann Ludwig Choulant (12 November 1791 - 18 July 1861) was a German physician and medical historian born in Dresden. He was the father of architect Ludwig Theodor Choulant (1827-1900).
He studied medicine at the Collegium Medico-chirurgicum in Dresden and at the University of Leipzig, followed by work in 1817 as a physician/obstetrician in Altenburg. During the same year he joined the staff at the Medizinischen Realwörterbuch of Johann Friedrich Pierer (1767-1832). In 1821 he was a physician at the Königlichen Katholischen Krankenstift in Dresden-Friedrichstadt.
In 1822 he began work as a lecturer at the Königlich Chirurgisch-Medizinische Akademie (Royal Surgical-Medical Academy) in Dresden, where during the following year he became a professor of theoretical medicine. In 1823 he also began work as an associate editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Natur- und Heilkunde. In 1828 he became a professor of practical medicine, and from 1843 to 1860 was rector of the Royal Surgical-Medical Academy. From 1844 he served as medical officer in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior.[1]
In addition to his work involving the literary history of medicine, Choulant made many contributions to the Saxon Medizinalordnung (medical code).
Written works
- Tafeln zur Geschichte der Medizin (Tables on the history of medicine); 1822
- Lehrbuch der speziellen Pathologie und Therapie des Menschen (Textbook of special pathology and therapy of man); 1831
- Anleitung zur ärztlichen Rezeptierkunst (Manual for medical Rezeptierkunst); second edition- 1834
- Anleitung zur ärztlichen Praxi (Guide to medical practice); 1836
- Handbuch der Bücherkunde für die ältere Medizin; second edition 1841
- Bibliotheca medico-historica; 1841
- Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung (History and bibliography of anatomic illustration); 1852
- »Die Anfänge wissenschaftlicher Naturgeschichte und naturhistorischer Abbildung im Abendland (The beginnings of scientific natural history and natural history illustration in the West); 1857
- Graphische Inkunabeln für Naturgeschichte und Medizin (Graphical incunabula for natural history and medicine); 1858.[2]
References
- Pierer's Universal-Lexicon, Volume 4 Altenburg, 1858, p. 91 (biography, translated from German)
- Parts of the biography are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.