Publications by Ferdinand Dejean

Dejean, Ferdinand: De medicatione morborum ocularium sine operatione manuali. Dissertatio inauguralis medico-practica, Leiden 1773. (Reprint: Weiz, Friedrich August, Neue Auszüge aus Dissertationen für Wundärzte, Leipzig 1777, 6, 35-46.)

 

Dejean, Ferdinand: Historia, analysis chemica, origo, et usus oeconomicus sodae hispanicae. Dissertatio inauguralis chemica-oeconomico.practica, Leyden 1773.

 

Dejean, Ferdinand: De igne, sanguine, prae chylo lacteque, essentiali, rubedinis, caloris, fermentationumque eiusdem caussa. Dissertatio quae Academiae Imperialis Petropolitanae Iudicio cum symbolo Lux in Luce Quaerenda, submissa, proximos praemio honores tulit, St. Petersburg 1777.

 

Dejean, Ferdinand: Commentaria in institutiones pathologiae medicinalis autore Hier. David. Gaubio, collecta, digesta à Ferdinando Dejean (3 parts in 4 volumes), Vienna/Leyden 1792/94.

 

Dejean, Ferdinand: Erläuterungen über Gaub's Anfangsgründe der medicinischen Krankheitslehre, translated by Christian Gottfried Gruner (3 parts in 4 volumes), Berlin 1794/96.

Secondary Literature

Frank Lequin of Leyden was the first to make the identity and background of Ferdinand Dejean known with his article "Mozarts '...rarer Mann'", which appered in the Mozart Year Book of 1981.

Bleker, Otto: "Ferdinand Dejean (1731-97): Surgeon of The Dutch East India Company, Man of The Enlightenment, and Patron of Mozart", in: The Historian Vol. 78, Nr. 1 (Spring 2016), 57-80.

 

Bleker, Otto/Lequin, Frank: "Ferdinand Dejean (1731-1797) chirurgijn van de VOC en opdrachtgever van Mozart", in: Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde 2005, 11, 111-120. (Correction: Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde 2012, 15, 318.)

 

Bleker, Otto/Lequin, Frank: Ferdinand Dejean (1731-1797). VOC-chirurgijn, wereldburger en opdrachtgever van Mozart, Wormerveer:  Uitgeverij Noord-Holland 2013.

 

Jenkins, J. S.: "Mozart's Indian: Dr Ferdinand Dejean", in: Journal of Medical Biography, London 1994, 2, 53-58.

 

Kaldenbach, Jos: "Ferdinand Dejean (1731–1797) aus Bonn. 'Halt ein rarer Mann und Indiaanse Hollander', meinte Mozart", in: Archiv für Familiengeschichtsforschung 2/2013, 43-49.

 

Kreiner, Josef: "Taminos 'japonisches Jagdkleid'. Was wusste Mozart über Japan?", in: Bonner Universitätsblätter, Bonn 2008, 27-32.

 

Lequin, Frank: "Mozarts '... rarer Mann'", in: Mitteilungen der Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg 1981, 29 (1/2), 3-19.

 

Lequin, Frank: Ferdinand Dejean (1731-1797) in Leiden. Overpeinzingen van een onverbeterlijke en vergeten wereldreiziger. Mammon, Medicijnen, Mozart, Leyden: 1982.

 

Lequin, Frank: Het Personeel van de VOC in de achttiende eeuw in Azie, meer in het bijzonder in de vestiging Bengalen (2 Bände), Leyden: 1982.

 

Martin, Stephen (with Otto Bleker & Falk Steins): "Ferdinand Dejean - Patron of Mozart's Flute Music", in: PAN. The Journal of the British Flute Society, December 2015, 32-34.

 

Martin, Stephen: "The Symbolic Portrait of Mozart’s Patron Dr. Ferdinand Dejean", in: Hektoen International. A Journal of Medical Humanities 2018 (Online).

 

Martin, Stephen"Modern neuroscience and the ideas of the Enlightenment", in: Hektoen International. A Journal of Medical Humanities 2020 (Online).

 

Martin, Stephen"The patronage and playability of Mozart's flute works", in: Hektoen International. A Journal of Medical Humanities 2021 (Online).

 

Martin, Stephen: "Was the VOC funding Mozart? The diaries of Wilhelm Buschman on Kharg Island", in: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2022, 1-23.

 

Schlosser, Johann Albert, Epistola ad virum expertissimum, peritissimumque Ferdinandum Dejean (...) de lacerta AmboinensiAmsterdam 1768. (German: Encyclopädisches Journal (Stück 2), Kleve 1774.

 

Seiffert, Wolf-Dieter: "Schrieb Mozart drei Flötenquartette für Dejean? Neuere Quellendatierung und Bemerkungen zur Familienkorrespondenz", in: Mozart-Jahrbuch Kassel/Basel et al. 1987/88, 267-275.

 

Wiese, Henrik (Hg.): Vorwort zu Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Flötenkonzert [Nr. 1] G-dur KV 313 (285c), Urtext (Partitur-Bibliothek), Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2006.

 

In this (dutch language) standard reference by Frank Lequin and Otto Bleker the state of research concering Dejean as per 2013 is recorded in an impressive manner. A revised and substantially expanded version is being prepared.