Alexander Reumont

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Alexander Reumont (born September 26, 1817 in Aachen ; † July 8, 1887 there ) was a German spa doctor ( balneologist ).

Life

Alexander Reumont studied medicine at the universities of Bonn and Berlin and received his doctorate at the latter on December 11, 1843. After traveling to Paris , London and Vienna , he settled in Aachen in 1845 as a doctor and surgeon. From 1848 to 1853 he worked at the private insane asylum and nursing home in Endenich near Bonn . He then worked as a doctor and spa doctor in Aachen until his death and was later also a secret medical adviser . In addition to two larger treatises on syphilis , his work is in the field of balneotherapy, especially on the Aachen thermal springs .

Reumont was, among other things, a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt , the Lower Rhine Society for Natural Science and Medicine in Bonn and the Hufeland Medical-Surgical Society in Berlin. On December 23, 1876 he was admitted to the Leopoldina . In Aachen, Reumont had been a member of Club Aachener Casino since 1858 .

family

Alexander Reumonts comes from the Reumont family, who immigrated from Belgium to Aachen in the 18th century. His parents were the physician and spa doctor Gerhard Reumont (1765–1828) and Lambertine Kraussen (1786–1850), his brother the historian and diplomat Alfred von Reumont (1808–1887). On March 1, 1862, he married Maria Emmeline Jacobina Claudina Fonck (1841–1915) in Cologne. He and her had six children: Joseph Maria Reumont (* 1863), Alfred von Reumont (1863–1942), Maria Elvire Reumont (* 1864), Maria Alexandrine Reumont (* 1865), Franz Reumont (1867–1926) and Alexander Reumont (1868-1873).

Alexander Reumont found his final resting place in the family crypt in Aachen's Ostfriedhof .

Works

As an author:

  • Asthmatis semiologia . Dissertation inauguralis medica. Typis Nietackianis, Berolini 1843 (Latin, archive.org ).
  • Memorandum on the establishment of complete apparatus for inhaling the gases and vapors of the sulfur thermal baths at Aachen, namely the Kaiserquelle there, in chronic breast diseases . Benrath and Vogelgesang, Aachen 1853 ( google.de ).
  • The Aachen sulfur thermal baths in complex syphilis . Mauke, Jena 1858.
  • The Aachen sulfur thermal baths in syphilitic forms of illness . Diagnostic and therapeutic. Second, completely revised and enlarged edition. Published by Ferdinand Enke, Erlangen 1859 ( google.de ).
  • Winter cures in Aachen . JA Mayer, Aachen 1863 ( google.de ).
  • Contributions to the pathology and therapy of constitutional syphilis . Based on experience at the Aachen thermal cure. Published by Ferdinand Enke, Erlangen 1864 ( google.de ).
  • Syphilis and tabes dorsalis . Based on my own experience. Publisher by JA Mayer, Aachen 1881 ( archive.org ).

As translator:

  • Anthony Todd Thomson : Guide to the Knowledge and Treatment of Poisoning . In addition to the chemical analysis and the autopsy findings. In alphabetical order. Adapted from the English of A. Todd Thomson by Dr. Alexander Reumont. Published by H. Benrath, Aachen 1846 ( google.de ).
  • Charles James Blasius Williams : On the prognosis and treatment of organic diseases of the heart . Translated from English by Dr. Alexander Reumont. Published by T. Habicht, Bonn 1851 ( google.de ).

literature

  • Wernich: Alexander Reumont . In: August Hirsch (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples . tape 4 (Lindsley – Revillon). Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1886, p. 714 ( archive.org ).
  • Alma Kreuter: Reumont, Alexander . In: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists . A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the precursors to the middle of the 20th century. tape 3 (Paetz-Zwinger). KG Saur, Munich, New Providence, London and Paris 1996, p. 1171 .
  • Eduard Arens, Wilhelm L. Janssen , History of the Club Aachener Casino , new ed. by Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens , Aachen 2nd edition 1964, no. 451, p. 166

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personal data
SURNAME Reumont, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German spa doctor
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1887
Place of death Aachen