Adam Elias von Siebold

Adam Elias von Siebold , also Johann Elias Cosmas Adam Siebold (born March 5, 1775 in Würzburg , † July 12, 1828 in Berlin ) was a German gynecologist , obstetrician and university professor .

Life

Adam Elias von Siebold was the fourth and youngest son of Carl Caspar von Siebold (1736–1807), professor of anatomy , surgery and obstetrics at the University of Würzburg . In contrast to his brothers, his father wanted him to become a businessman, but then returned to Würzburg after a half-year apprenticeship in an Augsburg trading house to also study medicine. During his studies, which began in 1792, he became a member of the Constantist Order . After studying in Würzburg, Jena and Göttingen, he returned to Würzburg in 1798, initially as a Dr. med. doctorate , in the same year he completed his habilitation there and in the following year 1799 he was appointed associate professor for the new subject “obstetrics” at the University of Würzburg. When it came to his teachers, he referred in particular to Johann Christian Stark (1753–1811) in Jena, Friedrich Benjamin Osiander (1759–1822) in Göttingen and later, when he was already an associate professor, to Johann Lukas Boër (1751–1835) in Vienna .

In 1804 he had to manage the construction of the first facility in Würzburg (the first higher education institution for physicians as accoucheurs), a maternity clinic and midwifery school, which he himself in a former epileptic house in the summer semester of 1805 after being appointed professor near the Juliusspital in Klinikstraße 6 (where Robert von Welz's eye clinic was built in 1858 ) opened and ran. (The new maternity hospital replaced a facility operated at Innere Graben 18 in the former Freihaus until 1791 for the admission of injured people and especially pregnant women with sudden labor, where Johann Georg Christoph von Siebold (the son of Carl Caspar von Siebold ) stayed on December 17th In 1791 a provisional maternity hospital was established). After he had accepted a call to Berlin in 1816, Siebold opened the new university women's clinic at the Charité in 1817, adding a polyclinic for sick women and one for obstetrics.

Siebold worked as the author of several textbooks, developed an exercise phantom in Würzburg for practical teaching in obstetrics and was editor of the medical journal Lucina from 1804 . A magazine to perfect the art of childbirth. The quote is ascribed to him: "Silence and tranquility, time and patience, respect for nature and the woman giving birth, and respect for art when nature commands its help." On May 15, 1804 he became a member ( matriculation no. 1025 ) of the Leopoldina and was given the nickname "Cleophantus III".

He died of a stomach ailment at the age of 53.

family

Siebold married Sophie Schaeffer (1779–1816) a daughter of personal physician Jacob von Schaeffer (1752–1826) in 1800 . The couple had 5 sons, 3 of whom died early, and 5 daughters, 2 of whom died early:

Eduard Caspar Jacob (March 19, 1801; † October 27, 1861) ⚭ Wilhelmine Nöldechen (1800-1892)
Carl Theodor Ernst (born February 16, 1804 - † April 7, 1885)

⚭ Fanny Noeldechen (* 1804 - December 26, 1854)

⚭ Antonie Noeldechen (September 2, 1816 - August 5, 1896)

Sophia (1805–1837) ⚭ Hans Wichmann († before 1847), farmer, bailiff
Bertha (1807–1889) ⚭ Hans Wichmann
Louise (1814-after 1876) ⚭ NN Meyer, merchant in Stettin

After the death of his first wife, he married Friederike Auguste Pauly (1806–1845) in Berlin in 1823 , the daughter of Johann Friedrich Pauly, the chief bailiff in Blankenburg . The couple had two daughters, one of whom died early:

Marie (1828–1909) ⚭ Hermann August Berger (1821–1887), landowner and chief magistrate

Honors

1808: Honorary member of the Physico-Medical Society in Erlangen
1809: Honorary member of the Wetterau Society for all natural history in Hanau
1816: Appointment as Royal Prussian General
1818: The Empress Mother of Russia gives him a diamond ring
1819: Gold Medal of Merit from Prussia
1819: Honorary doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Würzburg
1819: Knight of the Hanoverian Guelph Order
1820: Order of the Red Eagle III. class

The Siebold high school in Würzburg was named in memory of him and other important members of his family (especially his nephew Philipp Franz von Siebold ).

Fonts (selection)

A few words to my audience on some obstetrical issues. Stahel, Würzburg 1799.
About the purpose and organization of the clinic in a maternity hospital. A program for the opening of the clinical school in the new Electoral Maternity Hospital at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. Bamberg / Würzburg 1806.
Annals of the clinical school at the maternity hospital in Würzburg. First volume. Leipzig 1806.
Handbook for the Knowledge and Cure of Illnesses in Women. Second volume. First section: On diseases of the reproductive system. Section Two: The Diseases of Mothers in Birth. Barrentrapp, Frankfurt a. M .: 1st edition 1815, 566 pages.
About a comfortable and simple pillow to facilitate childbirth and obstetrics. Berlin 1818.
Handbook for the Knowledge and Cure of Illnesses in Women. First volume. First section: physical individuality of women. Second section: On pale disease, maternal rage, hysteria and sterility. Section Three: Diseases of the Breasts. Fourth section: On diseases of the birth parts. Barrentrapp, Frankfurt a. M. 1821, 797 pages.
Textbook of theoretical-practical maternity studies. 2 volumes, 1821–1824.
About uterine cancer, its development and prevention. Berlin 1824.
Handbook for the knowledge and healing of illnesses in maternal women. Frankfurt am Main 1826.
Detailed descriptions of the healing springs in Kissingen and their effects, especially on female diseases. 1828
Dr. JGC Schäffer's biography , Schade, Berlin 1824.

literature

Franz von Winckel: Siebold, Adam Elias von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 183 f.
Werner E. Gerabek : Siebold, Johann Elias Cosmas Adam. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 327 f. ( Digitized version ).
Henning Bärmig: The personal bibliographies of the professors who taught at the Medical Faculty of the Alma Mater Julia zu Würzburg from 1582 to 1803 with biographical information. Medical dissertation, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1969, pp. 67–73.
Johann Gottlob Bernstein : Adam Elias von Siebold's biography. In: same: history of surgery. Part 2. Leipzig 1823, pp. 341-354.
Werner E. Gerabek: Siebold, Adam Elias von. In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. Edited by Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil and Wolfgang Wegner, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005 ( ISBN 3-11-015714-4 ), p. 1327 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Adam Elias von Siebold - Sources and full texts

Member entry of Elias von Siebold at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 19, 2018.

biography

Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

↑ Karl Hoede: Boys out. As a reminder of the origins of the old boyhood. Frankfurt am Main 1962, p. 55.
↑ with dissertation inauguralis medico-obstetricia sistens diagnosis conceptionis et graviditatis sarpe dubiam.
^ Adam Elias von Siebold: About the purpose and organization of the clinic in a maternity hospital. A program for the opening of the clinical school in the new electoral maternity hospital at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. Bamberg / Würzburg 1806.
↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Supplement 3; also dissertation Würzburg 1995), ISBN 3-88479-932-0 , pp. 13-23.
↑ Adam Elias von Siebold: About practical teaching in the art of childbirth together with a systematic overview of his practical exercises on the phantom. Grattenauer, Nuremberg 1803.
^ Gerhard Ritter: On the development of the obstetric phantom in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Medical History Journal. Volume 1, 1966, pp. 224-232.
^ Hans Körner: Die Würzburger Siebold. A family of scholars from the 18th and 19th centuries. Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1967 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 3).

personal data
SURNAME	Siebold, Adam Elias from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH	July 12, 1828
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Karl Hoede: Boys out. As a reminder of the origins of the old boyhood. Frankfurt am Main 1962, p. 55.

[2] with dissertation inauguralis medico-obstetricia sistens diagnosis conceptionis et graviditatis sarpe dubiam.

[3] Adam Elias von Siebold: About the purpose and organization of the clinic in a maternity hospital. A program for the opening of the clinical school in the new electoral maternity hospital at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. Bamberg / Würzburg 1806.

[4] Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Supplement 3; also dissertation Würzburg 1995), ISBN 3-88479-932-0 , pp. 13-23.

[5] Adam Elias von Siebold: About practical teaching in the art of childbirth together with a systematic overview of his practical exercises on the phantom. Grattenauer, Nuremberg 1803.

[6] Gerhard Ritter: On the development of the obstetric phantom in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Medical History Journal. Volume 1, 1966, pp. 224-232.

[7] Hans Körner: Die Würzburger Siebold. A family of scholars from the 18th and 19th centuries. Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1967 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 3).