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


      Biography


      Becker was born and died in Leipzig. He translated some of Cooper's novels and Le mie prigioni (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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      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 1803 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
      Rezepte und Kurarten der besten Aerzte aller Zeiten . Vol. 1–4; several editions . Barth, Leipzig 1808–1818 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
      This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Becker, Gottfried Wilhelm" . The American Cyclopædia.


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