Adolph Friedrich Vogel

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Adolph Friedrich Vogel, inked chalk drawing by Ernst Heinrich Abel (1777)

Adolph Friedrich Vogel , also: Adolf (born October 23, 1748 in Lübeck ; † January 22, 1785 ibid) was a German doctor, gynecologist and surgeon.

life and work

Vogel was the youngest son of the Lübeck council surgeon and Mecklenburg-Strelitz country physician Jakob Leonhard Vogel . From 1768 he studied at the University of Kiel and received his doctorate in medicine under Johann Friedrich Ackermann here in 1771 . In his Dissertatio ... observaciones quasdam chirurgicas complexa he first described a goiter - ectomy (surgical removal of a goiter).

He received funding from the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck for a three-year study trip through Germany, Switzerland, France and England. After his return he settled in Lübeck. Contemporary reports emphasize that he was one of the rare doctors at the time who was not ashamed of surgery . After the death of his father in 1781 he succeeded him as teacher and medical overseer of the city midwives , but died in 1785. In a poem on the occasion of his death it says:

“Already in the summer of his years,
Lübeck's great surgeon died:
The city accompanies his Baare
Zur Gruft - and everyone mourns for him.
Hey you crowned one! - Also from those,
Your steel freed from misery here,
You took the thanks - the tears of joy over
into eternity. "

Fonts

  • Dissertatio inauguralis medica observationes qvasdam chirurgicas complexa. Kiel 1771
  • Surgical Perceptions.
First collection. Lübeck: Iversen 1778
Second collection. Lübeck: Iversen 1780

literature

  • August Hirsch: Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume 7. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 1888, p. 137
  • Christa Pieske : Traueroden and obituaries in the Baroque era in Der Wagen 1966, pp. 71–76 (76ff.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The dissertation and the operation are described in detail by Anton Wölfler: The surgical treatment of goiter. Volume 1. Berlin: A. Hirschwald 1887, p. 32f ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Biographical Lexicon (lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Adolph Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogel, Adolf Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, gynecologist and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1785
Place of death Lübeck