Andreas Michel (dentist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Andreas Michel (born August 14, 1861 in Lohr am Main , † October 1, 1921 in Würzburg ) was a German doctor and dentist. He founded the University Dental Clinic at the University of Würzburg.

Life

Andreas Michel was born as the son of the Lohr merchant and military major Max Joseph Michel. He began his school career at elementary and Latin school in Lohr. He then attended the secondary school in Würzburg . Michel studied medicine and dentistry in Munich, Basel and Würzburg . From 1881 he was active in the Corps Makaria , of whose old gentlemen's association he took over the chairmanship in 1906 (the acquisition of the Würzburg corp house at Randersackererstraße 15 was mainly due to him). He was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate and obtained his license to practice medicine in Basel in 1882. He then worked for three and a half years as an assistant to the American dentist JM Mastny and to the doctor and dentist Meiler in Würzburg. In 1883, based on his monograph Replantation and Transplantation of Human Teeth , he received a master's degree in dentistry from the Visconsin state dental college and a title of Dr. of Dental Surgery. He obtained his German license to practice medicine at the University of Würzburg in 1886. In Würzburg he then practiced the dental practice and in the same year married Maria, née Berg. Michel received his doctorate in medicine, surgery and obstetrics in 1895 in Basel. The dissertation, graded magna cum laude, deals with the “Gürber's serum protein crystals”.

In 1898 he was appointed as successor to Jakob Bertens to the board of the dental institute Würzburg and began lectures on dentistry at the local university to keep. On February 4, 1901, his private dental institute received the status of a Royal University Dental Clinic . On December 31, 1903, Prince Regent Luitpold awarded Michel the title of Royal Professor . In 1908 he was appointed associate professor of dentistry. The main focus of his teaching activities were dental surgery, tooth and mouth diseases, tooth filling methods, and tooth and jaw replacements.

As part of the opening of the new Würzburg University Dental Clinic, completed in 1911 on the corner of Pleichertorstrasse and Pleicherwall, the establishment and expansion of which is considered Michel's life's work, in 1912 he was given the title of royal Bavarian councilor .

During the First World War, Michel was chief physician of the reserve hospital department of the dental clinic and medical adviser to the medical office of the Royal Bavarian II Army Corps.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Conservative dentistry . Leipzig 1912

literature

  • Herbert Kater: On the iconography of the Würzburg professor of dentistry Andreas Michel. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 5, 1987, pp. 363-370.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Herbert Kater: On the iconography of the Würzburg professor of dentistry Andreas Michel. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Vol. 5, 1987, pp. 363-370, here: pp. 365-367.
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 140/102.
  3. ^ Andreas Michel: curriculum vitae from March 15, 1917. In: Herbert Kater: On the iconography of the Würzburg professor of dentistry Andreas Michel. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 5, 1987, pp. 363-370, here: pp. 365 f.
  4. Herbert Kater: On the iconography of the Würzburg professor of dentistry Andreas Michel. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 5, 1987, pp. 363-370, here: pp. 365 f.
  5. ^ Andreas Michel: curriculum vitae from March 15, 1917. In: Herbert Kater: On the iconography of the Würzburg professor of dentistry Andreas Michel. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 5, 1987, pp. 363-370, here: pp. 365 f.