[The Wurzburg professor of physiology and medical offer for the poor Johann Joseph Dömling (1771-1803) - an almost forgotten pioneer of the romantic medicine].
Johan Joseph Dömling (1771-1803), professor of physiology and medical officer for the poor at Wurzburg, was born in a Franconian village near to Königshofen. For a while, he supported a mechanistic oriented physiology and rejected the Romantic medicine. In his early works he polemicized vehmently against the natural philosophy and anthropology of Schelling. About the year 1802, Dömling changed sides and so he even paved the way for Schelling and his successful activities at Wurzburg (1803-1806) as a pioneer of the Romantic medicine in Germany. Dömling's early death gave rise to speculations, rumours and intrigues so that finally Philipp Joseph Horsch, the physician of Dömling, was accused of having murdered him. Franz Berg, professor of theology at Wurzburg, was the creator of that rumours. Berg supported enlightened philosophical concepts, and so he was strongly opposed to Schelling and Horsch. A well-grounded scientific study about Dömling's life and work is up to now a desideratum of the research in medical history.
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