August Lucae

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August Lucae (1835-1911)

Johann Constantin August Lucae (born August 24, 1835 in Berlin ; † March 17, 1911 there ) was a German doctor and otologist .

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Lucae came from an old Berlin pharmacist family. His father was August Friedrich Theodor Lucae (1800–1848), 1st class pharmacist in Berlin and owner of the “Rothen Adler Pharmacy” and a mineral water factory in Berlin. His mother was born Caroline Wendel (1803-1870), daughter of Johann Georg Wendel (1754-1834), a professor of drawing at the Erfurt high school. His two brothers were the architect Richard Lucae (1829–1877) and the Germanist Karl Lucae (1833–1888).

August Lucae studied medicine at the University of Berlin in Berlin and at the University of Bonn . In 1859 he received his doctorate with the thesis De laryngoscopiae usu nonnulla . His further paths then led him to Würzburg to Anton Friedrich von Tröltsch , Prague, Vienna, Paris and London. In Paris he made the acquaintance of the acoustician Rudolph Koenig . This is where Lucae's first acoustic-physiological work was carried out. In 1862 he worked in London with Joseph Toynbee , who worked at the ear medical outpatient clinic in St. Mary's Hospital.

Afterwards he went back to Berlin, where he practiced at Rudolf Virchow's Institute for Pathology that same year . After his habilitation - with the text about hearing loss in gray degeneration of the spinal cord - he worked from 1866 to 1905 as a teacher at the University of Berlin. In 1871 he was appointed associate professor and in 1874 he took over as director of the University Polyclinic for Ear Diseases. Finally, in 1899, he was appointed full professor of otology at the University of Berlin.

Lucae strove to establish a department for ear patients connected to a polyclinic at the Charité , but his first application for this was rejected in 1871 by the incumbent Minister Heinrich von Mühler of the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs . The reason for this was that the establishment of such an independent clinic within the Charité hospital was not permitted and that the university clinic also had no appropriate premises for this purpose. But Lucae's constant insistence within the administrative institutions as well as his high treatment numbers and successes ultimately led to a change of opinion in the ministry. In 1881 he was entrusted with the management of the first inpatient university clinic for ear diseases in Germany, which he co-founded. Lucae retired in 1906 .

Lucae was also a founding member of the English-style Club of Berlin , which was constituted on October 8, 1864.

August Lucae died in Berlin in 1911 at the age of 75 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

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Web links

  • curriculum vitae in tabular form on the website of the Scientific Collections at the Humboldt University of Berlin ; Retrieved April 14, 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official Journal of the Government in Potsdam . sn, 1823, p. 264.
  2. ^ Charité University Medicine Berlin. History of the Charité and ear, nose and throat medicine in Berlin. ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hno-ccm.charite.de
  3. ^ Club of Berlin, History
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 305.
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SURNAME Lucae, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucae, Johann Constantin August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and otologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1911
Place of death Berlin