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Heinrich August Gerlach (Medical Doctor, Librettist, Bach's Pupil) |
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Born: c1708 - Calbitz, Saxony, Germany
Died: December 10, 1759 - Hamburg, Germany |
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Heinrich August Gerlach was born the son of Melchior Gotthelf Gerlach (Pastor in Calbitz). He enrolled at the Thomasschule in Leipzig on May 18, 1720; studied there from 1720 to 1727; and at Universität Leipzig from 1729. Although he attended the Thomasschule during J.S. Bach's tenure, it is not known if he actually studied with him. He obtained his Magister in Wittenberg in 1733; and studied also at Universität Erfurt, completing his doctorate in philosophy and on September 28, 1741 in medicine.
After his studies, Heinrich August Gerlach worked as Medical Doctor in Hamburg. He is the author of the libretto Gottselige Gedanken Bey dem Kreuze Unsers Erlösers, which was performed by Johann Adolph Scheibe in 1742. On November 10, 1742, he was elected with the academic epithet Gesius II as a member (matriculation number 529) of the Leopoldina. His elder brother, Carl Gotthelf Gerlach (1704-1761), was also a Thomaner (1716-1723).
References: Richter: 38; GND: 102526214 |
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Writings |
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Dissertatio inauguralis medica de actione et reactione in corpore humano æquali conservanda (Hering, Erfurt 1741)
De cura cancri in mamma exulcerati, possibili, exulante chirurgica operatione (König, Hamburg 1743) |
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Works |
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Gottselige Gedanken Bey dem Kreuze Unsers Erlösers/ Ein Passions=Oratorium/ Poetisch entworfen Von Gerlach Doctor der Arzneykunst und der Kayserl. Academie der Naturae Curiosorum Mitgliede und auf Allergnädigsten Befehl In die Music gesetzt Und am stillen Freytage 1742 In der Schloßkirche auf Christiansburg Musicalisch aufgeführet Von Johann Adolph Scheibe Königlich Dänischen Capellmeister . Johann Georg Höpfner (Copenhagen) |
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Sources:
1. Bernd Koska: Dissertation "Bachs Thomaner als Kantoren in Mitteldeutschland" (Beeskow 2018), Anhang VII.1 Die Alumnen der Thomasschule 1710-1760, English translation by Aryeh Oron (April 2020)
2. German Wikipedia Website (June 2019), English translation by Aryeh Oron (April 2020)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (April 2020) |
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Links to other Sites |
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Heinrich August Gerlach (Wikipedia) [German] |
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Bibliography |
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Literature: Wiegand 1963, S. 90
Andreas Elias Büchner: Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, S. 511
Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur: Geschichte der kaiserlichen Leopoldino-Carolinischen deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher während des zweiten Jahrhunderts ihres Bestehens. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, S. 218
Hans Schröder: Lexikon der hamburgischen Schriftsteller bis zur Gegenwart. 2, Perthes-Besser und Mauke, Hamburg 1854, S. 473
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