Johann Peter Süssmilch

Johann Peter Süßmilch (or Süssmilch September 3, 1707 in Zehlendorf - March 22 1767 in Berlin) was a German priest, statistician and demographer.

He studied medicine and theology at Jena and Halle and in 1741 was an army chaplain in the First Silesian War. On Sunday, 13 August 1741, the former field preacher gave his inaugural sermon as pastor of the community Etzin. [http://www.berlin-chronik.de/bms/bmstxt97/9709prob.htm Eckart Elsner: Süßmilchs time Etzin] ] Then he served as Provost Oberkonsistorialrat in Berlin-Cölln (St.-Petri community) in 1742. He became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1745. He had contacts with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Immanuel Kant.

Works

*"The Royal Residence Berlin Wachsthum and faster construction", 1752 ( [http://echo2.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/demography/demography/suessmilch_1752 Digitalisat] )
*"The Divine order in the changes in the human sex from birth, death and reproduction of the same", 2 parts, 1761-1762 (Digitalisat [http://echo2.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/ demography/demography/suessmilch_1761 Part 1] , [http://echo2.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/demography/demography/suessmilch_1762 Part 2] )

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Persondata
NAME = Süssmilch, Johann Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = German priest and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH = September 3 1707
PLACE OF BIRTH = Zehlendorf
DATE OF DEATH = March 22 1767
PLACE OF DEATH = Berlin