Abraham Everard Simon Thomas

Abraham Everard Simon Thomas

Abraham Everard Simon Thomas (born June 6, 1820 in Amsterdam , † November 22, 1886 in Hoog Soeren ) was a Dutch medic.

Life

Abraham Everard was the son of the wine merchant Charles Menard Simon Thomas (* September 24, 1772 in Amsterdam; † May 25, 1821 ibid) and his second wife Anna Maria Elisabeth de Wit (* October 28, 1786 in Amsterdam; † July 29, 1868 in Leiden, married September 24, 1816 in Amsterdam). After the early death of his father, his mother took care of his further education. He received his first name from his maternal grandfather Abraham Everardus de Wit (born September 30, 1750 in Amsterdam; † May 20, 1821 in Breukelen), who met Maria Catharina Titsingh on May 31, 1772 (born February 17, 1752 in Amsterdam ; † December 7, 1838 ibid) had married and maintained a scientific correspondence.

After initial basic training, he moved to the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam in 1838 , where he was already orienting himself towards medical training. On May 25, 1840, he enrolled at the University of Leiden , completed his medical exam in 1842 and worked as an assistant doctor at the Binnengasthuis in Amsterdam. In Leiden he received his doctorate in medicine with the treatise Quaedam de morbo syphilitico on October 30, 1844, and on April 28, 1845, with the theses on obstetrics, Theses Argumenti Obstetricii, he obtained a doctorate in obstetrics. On May 14, 1845 he moved to Rotterdam as a doctor , where he made a name for himself with some work on gynecological diagnostics and therapy. Therefore, on April 22, 1848, he was appointed associate professor of medicine at the Leiden University, with a teaching position for obstetrics and gynecology.

He took over this office on September 23, 1848 with the inaugural speech De rite instauranda institutione de arte obstetricia . On October 25, 1849, he received an honorary doctorate in surgery in Leiden, and in 1850 he established a polyclinic for obstetrics and gynecological diseases in Leiden. On June 24, 1857 he was appointed full professor of medicine, as which he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and in 1859/60 became rector of the alma mater . He resigned the latter office with the rector's speech De experientia medico perquam necessaria . His studies dealt among other things with the obliquely narrowed pelvis and with the uterine suture after the caesarean section. In addition, he was hired on January 29, 1863 by the local council in Leiden as city birth master and teacher for local midwives.

He was a member of the Society for the Promotion of Medicine and Surgery in Amsterdam, a member of the provincial Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences, in 1862 an external member of the German Obstetrics Society in Berlin, in 1866 an honorary member of the Obstetrical Society in London and in 1869 a corresponding member of the Gynaecological Society in Boston. He was also a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion . After his death, he was buried on November 25, 1886 in the Groenesteeg family grave in Leiden.

family

April 19, 1849, Simon Thomas married in Rotterdam to Margaretha Jacoba Johanna Ballot (born July 6, 1822 in Rotterdam; † March 8, 1904 in Amsterdam), the daughter of the businessman Jacob Ballot (born July 19, 1790 in Rotterdam; † 24. January 1865 in Kampen) and his wife Aletta Ledeboer (born October 22, 1791 in Rotterdam; December 4, 1834 ibid). The marriage resulted in five sons and four daughters. From the children we know:

• Jean Charles Marie Simon Thomas (* July 28, 1850 in Leiden; † February 27, 1903 ibid) he was also a medical doctor, received his doctorate on October 2, 1875 in Leiden with the treatise Over keering bij bekkenvernauwing as a doctor of medicine and gynecology, became a doctor in Alkmaar
• François Abraham Simon Thomas (* February 6, 1853 in Leiden, † August 2, 1889 in Rotterdam) received his doctorate in Leiden on January 22, 1881 with the treatise Verslag der Verlosk. Kliniek en Polikliniek aan de Rijks- Universiteit te Leiden gedurende the course 1877-78 en1878-79, opened a practice for obstetrics and gynecology in Rotterdam, married October 5, 1882 in Rotterdam with Geertruida Antonia Ballot (* December 8, 1862 in Rotterdam- 1889 ibid), the daughter of Adriaan Marinus Ballot and Maria Elisabeth Adriana Schadee,
• Jean Henri Simon Thomas (in Leiden around 1854) received his doctorate on May 8, 1896 with the thesis Bijdrage tot de operative treatment of tuberculosis peritonei, was a doctor in Kampen
• Paul Henri Simon Thomas (born September 23, 1856 in Leiden; † January 19, 1936 in Utrecht), received his doctorate in Leiden on September 23, 1882 with the thesis Over decapitatie in Leiden. med., doctor in Rotterdam, author of articles in the Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek , m. August 23, 1888 in Rotterdam with Anna Christina Maria Baartz (* December 7, 1864 in Rotterdam; † May 16, 1920 in Utrecht), daughter of the director of the brewery "dOranjeboom" Willem Baartz (* October 20, 1832 in Rotterdam; † 5 March 1923 ibid) and Christina Wilhelmina van Hall (* March 7, 1837 in Groningen; † May 10, 1921 in Rotterdam), daughter of Hermannus Christiaan van Hall and Maria Anna van Schermbeek.
• Gertrude Petronella Simon Thomas (born January 11, 1858 in Leiden; † April 25, 1872 there)
• Jean Charles Antoine Simon Thomas (born January 15, 1861 in Leiden; † December 3, 1938 in The Hague), was appointed Dr. in 1890 on the subject of propyl en isopropylnitramine. der Chemie, Knight of the Dutch Lion, was a teacher of technology and goods science at the Navy in Amsterdam, married. on May 5, 1892 in Leiden Catharina Magaretha Rumpke (born January 25, 1866 in Moonikendam) daughter of August Mattheus Lodewijk Rumpke and Magaretha Angelique Johanna Horstmann
• Josina Françoise Jeannette Reiniera Simon Thomas (born February 9, 1862 in Leiden-?) Married Bernard Louis Repelius on November 2, 1882 in Leiden (born January 24, 1850 Echteld; † December 3, 1893 in Malang)
• Maria Elisabeth Adriana Simon Thomas (born August 12, 1863 in Leiden † January 21, 1953 in Oegstgeest) married. July 21, 1887 in Leiden with the chemist Cornelis Adriaan Lobry van Troostenburg de Bruyn (born January 1, 1857 in Leeuwarden, † July 23, 1904 in Amsterdam)

Works

Most of his articles appeared in the Dutch medical journal. However, independent works were also created.

• De ontsteking, vcrzwcring en Verharding van den hals der baarmoeder, by JH Bennett, uit het Engelsch vertaald. Rotterdam, 1848
• The obliquely narrowed pelvis from the side of theory and practice according to the current state of science; with 7 lithographed plates. Leiden, 1861
• The empty van het onderzoek door publicize envrouwenartsen. Leiden 1867

literature

• Paul Henri Simon Thomas: SIMON THOMAS (Abraham Everardus) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 1. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 1472–1474 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1911, reprinted unchanged).
• BJ Kouwer: Professor AE Simon Thomas. In: Jaarboekje voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde van Leiden en Rijnland. AW Sijthoffs, Leiden, 1912, p. 1, ( PDF Online )
• Didericus Gijsbertus van Epen: Nederland's patriciaat. Centraal bureau voor genealogie en heraldick, Den Haag, 1942, vol. 28, p. 280
• August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1887, Vol. 5, p. 407