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Johann Christoph Pohl

1705–1780

An 18th-century German physician and scholar, he wrote in Latin on aging, wounds, obesity, and other medical subjects at the University of Leipzig. His surviving works offer a glimpse of how medicine was studied and argued in the early Enlightenment.

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Dissertationem de hominibvs post mortem sangvisvgis, vvlgo sic dictis Vampyren

Dissertationem de hominibvs post mortem sangvisvgis, vvlgo sic dictis Vampyren

by Johann Gottlob Hertel, Johann Christoph Pohl

About the author

Born in 1706 and dying in 1780, Johann Christoph Pohl was a German physician associated with the University of Leipzig. Records linked to his academic work show him producing Latin dissertations and medical writings in the 1730s, including work on obesity, the illnesses connected with it, and other clinical questions.

Catalog and bibliographic sources also connect him with writings on subjects such as ulcers and old age. That suggests a scholar working in the learned medical tradition of his time, when physicians often published formal academic disputations in Latin for university audiences.

Little biographical detail appears to be easily confirmed from the sources I found, so the safest picture is of an 18th-century medical author whose reputation now survives mainly through library records and academic catalogs rather than a widely documented personal history.