Christian Andreas Friedrich of Cothenius (* 14 February 1708 in Anklam (Pommern, Sweden); "† 5 January 1789 in Berlin) was a German physician and capacity for the medicine and with the reorganization of the military hospital nature.

Life

On 14 February 1708 Cothenius was born as a youngest child of the Regimentfeldschers Eberhard Wolfgang Cothenius and its wife Elizabeth geb. Kehvel. 1710 raged in north Germans the area (also in Anklam) devastatingly the plague. Many humans raffte this epidemic away. Who this survived, had to then see, as Russian and later also Saxonian troops occupied the city.

After the attendance of the city school in Anklam, Stettin and Stralsund he could do 1728 at the university resounds with the study to begin. 1732 it acquired the doctor title and after it became 1737 the license to practise medicine "“with praise received"”, it 1738 as Stadtphysikus in Havelberg employed. Its scientific knowledge, his personal radiant emittance and his untiring diligence made him an in demand specialist, who was constant in the old Mark, in Magdeburgi or in Mecklenburg on the way. This restless work and its medical achievements got around themselves, and as which Mecklenburgian yard Cothenius offered a body physician place, king Friedrich II. saw the time right and appointed him to 1748 the yard physician and Stadtphysikus in potsdam, the tidy physician of the large military orphanage and the Physikus of two districts.

The treatment of many members of the royal yard and further princes and princes brought in some title and other commendations for it. Between 1756 and 1763, during the seven-year-old of war, he worked as a highest army surgeon and organized an exemplary order into the up to then extremely insufficient military hospital nature. In the time it was missing to the FE storage of Prague suddenly at a military hospital for internally patient. Cothenius, at fever gotten sick and actually answered Friedrich II to the king in a letter:

"„I hope to come in three days with a military hospital of 1000 men; and within 12-14 days allda 2000 is to find their necessary provision "“"“

After the war with Leuthen there were not only many wounded ones (Prussia and Austrian), but also many soldiers was at typhus fever gets sick. The existing field pharmacies were empty and only by the personal employment Cothenius' succeeded it to bring made of Dresden corresponding cures and medicines here to larger extent. In addition the field pharmacies Cothenius let fill up and added each field pharmacy a Laboranten, so that necessary medicines if necessary also could be manufactured. Over 100 prescriptions the Generalstabsmedikus prepared for the pharmacies and the Laboranten for her work a substantial assistance created.

After peace treaty the king called it to Berlin. Here it applied to arrange the yard pharmacy completely come into disorder new. Also it supervised the hospitals of the city and the In its own practice it treated daily poor humans from the people with same personal employment, as it did so far for the members of the yard and the aristocracy. In addition an expression of the body physician Friedrich IITH Dr. Moehsen:

In such a way "„the steady patient attendance had become it (Dr. Cothenius) the habit, nearly the passion that it was not lucky, as if it could be quite many needy ones useful. All and each arm and distressed ones had daily free admission at it, and it stood for them up to the last days of its life with advice and act to the side. "“

Although already 80. Lebensjahr reached, he was still untiringly active. However some younger physicians went to it now to the hand, since the sight of its eyes diminished noticeably. On 5 January 1789 at noon 12 o'clock Cothenius at age weakness died after only few days illness. At the Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof at resounding ashes the gate in Berlin he was buried to the peace. Its grave is unfortunately today no longer discoverable.

The extensive fortune, books and its scientific collection received the academy in Berlin and the university in resound. It donated financial allowances among other things also for the city school of its birth city Anklam. As member and XIII. , He bequeathed their by will 1000 Taler in gold with the regulation to Director Ephemeridum of the academy to use their interest every two years for the award of a golden thinking coin in the value of 60 Talern, affected with the picture of the founder, courant for the best treatment of a matter of price from the area of the practical medicine. The embossing for the medal were made still during lifetimes by Cothenius.

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