Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 26, 1811
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 58
Additional Source Text:
"[Given] by Charles Frederic Wiesenthal who was at that time surgeon in the Emperors life guards."
Notes:
Thomas V. Wiesenthal of Baltimore studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1811-1812 and was a U.S. Navy surgeon. A medical and surgical journal he kept in 1816 while serving aboard the U.S. Frigate Java is in the New-York Historical Society. He left the navy in 1829.
Thomas's grandfather was the physician Charles Fredick Wiesenthal (1726-1789), a native of Germany who settled in Baltimore in 1755. His great-grandfather was Johann Mattheus Wiesenthal, who was said to have "associated for several years with the Prussian regiment of the Ansbach-Bayreuth lancers," but no connection of the family to Russia in 1604 has been discovered. The Tsaritsa of Russia in 1604 was Maria Grigorievna Skuratova-Belskaya (d.1605), the wife of Tsar Boris Godunov. See William Trammell Snyder, "Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal (1726-1789): An Appraisal of the Medical Pioneer of Baltimore" / https://loyolanotredamelib.org/php/report05/articles/pdfs/Report32Snyde…
