Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger (18 February 1719 – 15 April 1772) was a German

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

. He studied

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at the

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and medicine at the Universities of

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and Halle, obtaining his doctorate at the latter institution in 1739. He later practiced medicine in

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and Urach, and in 1760 was named an associate professor of medicine at the University of Tübingen. In 1762 he became a full professor of medicine at Tübingen.Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales - Biographie Médicale: Lemm - Rey, Volume 6
by Antoine Jacques Louis Jourdan

Published works

*"", 1739 (advisor Michael Alberti), graduate thesis at Halle. *"", 1760 (with Christian Gottlieb Reuss). *"", 1762 (with

Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin Samuel George Gottlieb Gmelin (4 July 1744 – 27 July 1774) was a German physician, botanist, and explorer. Background Gmelin was born at Tübingen as part of a well-known family of naturalists. His father was Johann Conrad Gmelin, an apotheca ...

). *"", 1766 (with Wilhelm Gottfried Ploucquet,

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). *"", 1767 (with Christian Friedrich Jaeger). *"", 1768 (with

Johann Friedrich Gmelin Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German natural history, naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist. Education Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp F ...

, respondent). *"", 1768 (with Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr, respondent). *"", 1770 (with Wolfgang Heinrich Moser, respondent).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oetinger, Ferdinand Christoph 1719 births 1772 deaths People from Göppingen 18th-century German physicians Academic staff of the University of Tübingen University of Tübingen alumni University of Halle alumni Leipzig University alumni