Adolph Runge

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Adolph Bernhard Runge , also Adolf Runge (born March 14, 1816 in Ludorf ; † June 12, 1862 in Friedland (Mecklenburg) ) was a German physician and member of the Pre-Parliament .

Life

Adolph Runge was the younger son of the farmer David Runge (* 1773) and his wife, the landlord's daughter Sophie, née. Otto (1785–1853) was born and grew up among eleven siblings, mainly in Warbende, where the father took over the lease in 1812. He was a nephew of the famous painter Philipp Otto Runge . Daniel Runge (* 1806), pastor in Woldegk, was his older brother.

Runge studied human medicine at the University of Jena and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. As a student in Jena, he edited two editions of the selection of German songs compiled by his brother Daniel .

After obtaining his doctorate, he returned to Mecklenburg-Strelitz and practiced first in Woldegk and then in Friedland.

In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament of the Frankfurt National Assembly . His older brother Daniel Runge was also involved in the 1848 democracy movement. After their failure, Daniel and seven other of his siblings emigrated to the USA as Forty-Eighters .

He was married to Ida, geb. Strübing. The couple's son Werner Runge (1855–1934) also emigrated to the USA and became an official veterinarian in Newark (New Jersey) .

Fonts

  • De morbo de scarlievo. Jena 1840

literature

  • August Blanck , Axel Wilhelmi : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1901, p. 117, No. 634
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8403 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information follows the state bibliography MV . Other literature says he was born on March 11, 1816 in Warbende .
  2. ↑ In 1839 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ( gymnastics father Jahn ) mentioned the selection, the management of which he [Daniel Runge] entrusted to a younger brother who is now dedicated to medicine in Jena ; Letter to Ernst Heinrich Zober dated July 16, 1839; the statement by Blanck / Wilhelmi (lit.) that he is Ed. two editions of the general German Commersbuches . Leipzig should be corrected accordingly.
  3. ↑ Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee ( Memento of August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at www.bundesarchiv.de
  4. ↑ Runge, Dr. Werner , in: Encyclopedia of American Biography. New series, Volume 6, 1936, pp. 311-312

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personal data
SURNAME Runge, Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Runge, Adolf; Runge, Adolph Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and member of the preliminary parliament
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludorf
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1862
Place of death Friedland (Mecklenburg)