Gottfried Wilhelm Becker (22 February 1778 – 17 January 1854) was a German physician and writer.

Biography

Becker was born and died in

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. He translated some of Cooper's novels and ' (''My Prisons'') by Silvio Pellico. By his literary labors he accumulated $40,000. His son Karl Ferdinand, an organist and writer on musical topics, added a house worth $7,000 to this sum, and the whole was dedicated to the establishment of an educational and charitable institution for the blind in Leipzig.

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General references

* ''Neue Haus- und Reise-Apotheke, oder medicinisches Noth- und Hülfsbüchlein : nebst einer genauen Untersuchung aller wirksamen und überall zu habenden Hausmittel ; für Oekonomen, Gutsbesitzer, Dorfprediger, Landleute und Reisende'' . Leipzig 180
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* ''Rezepte und Kurarten der besten Aerzte aller Zeiten'' . Vol. 1–4; several editions . Barth, Leipzig 1808–181
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