Georg Richter | |
Birth Date: | 4 February 1694 |
Birth Place: | Schneeberg, Electorate of Saxony |
Death Place: | Göttingen, Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg |
Nationality: | German |
Fields: | Physician, philosopher, and philologist |
Workplaces: | University of Göttingen |
Alma Mater: | University of Kiel |
Doctoral Advisor: | Johann Ludwig Hannemann |
Academic Advisors: | Herman Boerhaave |
Doctoral Students: | August Gottlieb Richter |
Footnotes: | He is the uncle of August Gottlieb Richter. |
Georg Gottlob Richter (4 February 1694 – 28 May 1773) was a professor of medicine, philosophy, and philology.
Before receiving his MD degree, Richter spent a year (1718) in Leiden listening to the lectures of Herman Boerhaave. He then obtained his MD under Johann Ludwig Hannemann at the University of Kiel in 1720.
He occupied first chair of medicine at the University of Göttingen. Richter wrote a text on dietetics and numerous dissertations on medical theory and practice.