August Hedinger

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Friedrich August Hedinger (born November 4, 1841 in Stuttgart ; † February 25, 1910 there ) was a German doctor , private researcher in the field of anthropology and philanthropist .

Portrait medallion from Hedinger's grave in the Fangelsbachfriedhof in Stuttgart, Department 11.

Life

Hedinger graduated from high school in Stuttgart in 1859. In the summer semester of 1859 he then began studying medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . He also dealt with geology and paleontology . In 1864 Hedinger joined the Ghibellinia fraternity in Stuttgart . In the same year he was awarded the dissertation The development of the doctrine of pulmonary tuberculosis and tuberculosis from the earliest times to the present time when Carl von Liebermeister to Dr. med. PhD . He then worked for Adam Politzer in Vienna in 1865 . From 1866 to 1889 Hedinger practiced as a doctor in Stuttgart in his own private clinic, specializing in ear medicine.

After Hedinger left his medical practice on hold, it was the questions of geology and palaeontology that interested him, and as a student of Friedrich August von Quenstedt , his main endeavor was initially to collect as large a material as possible, which later became the basis of manifold scientific investigations. As one of the co-founders of the Württemberg Anthropological Association, he switched from geology to archeology, first of all to be practically active again through excavations and to collect material. Of particular importance was the excavation of the caves near Gutenberg on the Swabian Alb , which was carried out together with the Swabian Cave Association in 1890 , whereby a scientifically interesting Ice Age animal fauna was brought to light especially in the Heppenloch . In 1895 he published the results of geological investigations of prehistoric artifacts of the Swiss image - they appeared as a memorandum of the Swiss Friends of Nature Society . In 1903 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy (section for anthropology, ethnology and geography). Furthermore, he was a co-founder of the Association for Germanness Abroad .

He bequeathed all of his geological collections to the Natural History Cabinet , the Technical University in Stuttgart and the Natural History Museum Vienna . He sent the archaeological collections to the university collection in Tübingen .

Hedinger was married to Marie Renner, the daughter of the Württemberg Finance Minister Andreas von Renner .

Since 1876 August Hedinger was a member of the student union Landsmannschaft Scotland .

Honors

  • In 1904, the Württemberg Anthropological Association , of which he was chairman from 1896 to 1904, appointed him honorary chairman.

Fonts

  • Galvanocaustics since Middeldorpf: According to foreign and own experiences for practical needs , Enke , 1879
  • The deaf and dumb and the deaf and dumb institutions . Enke, 1882
  • The incidence of ear diseases among railway officials . Berlin 1883
  • The olive tree. A cultural-historical sketch . Prague 1886
  • The cave finds from the Heppenloch , in: Annual issue of the Association for Fatherland Natural History and correspondence sheet of the German Society for Anthropology . 1891
  • Excavations in karst caves , in: Archive for Anthropology Vol. XXIL 1894
  • About the first appearance of the dog and its breed formation , in: Annual issue of the association for patriotic nature customers . Vol. 50, 1894
  • Results of geological investigations of prehistoric artifacts of the Swiss image . Memorandum of the Swiss Friends of Nature Society, Vol. XXXV. 1895
  • On the question of the oldest method of generating fire , in: Archive for Anthrophology . Vol. XXV. 1898
  • Trade routes across the Alps in prehistoric times , in: Globus . Vol. LXXVJII, No. 10, 1900
  • The prehistoric amber artifacts and their origin . De Gruyter , Strasbourg 1903, ISBN 978-3-11-198557-2
  • The Celts , in: Archives for Anthropology . Vol. XXVII. 6th
  • New Celtic excavations in the Swabian Alb: 1900 and 1901 . Vieweg Verlag , Braunschweig 1903

literature

  • Eberhard Fraas : Medical Councilor Dr. A. Hedinger † , in: Praehistorische Zeitschrift . Volume I, 1910 3rd issue.
  • Adam Politzer : History of Ear Medicine . Volume I, Enke, Stuttgart 1913, p. 279.
  • Heinrich Münzenmaier : History of the Scottish Landsmannschaft zu Tübingen 1849 to 1924 . Stuttgart 1924.
  • Jan Filip (Hrsg.): Encyclopaedic handbook on the prehistory and early history of Europe . Volume I, Academy of Sciences Publishing House, Prague 1966, p. 470.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Well-known Ghibellines - Stuttgarter Burschenschaft Ghibellinia . In: Stuttgarter Burschenschaft Ghibellinia . ( ghibellinen.de [accessed November 2, 2017]).
  2. ^ Frank Raberg :  Renner, Andreas von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 429 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Hedinger, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hedinger, Friedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1910
Place of death Stuttgart