August Pockels

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August Pockels

August Pockels (born October 29, 1791 in Einbeck , † December 9, 1840 in Braunschweig ) was a Braunschweig military doctor during the wars of liberation .

August Pockels was the son of the Brunswick court councilor Karl Friedrich Pockels (1757-1814). He studied medicine and enrolled at the University of Göttingen in May 1810. In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . After graduating as Dr. med. He joined the Kingdom of Westphalia in July 1811 as a battalion doctor of the 1st Light Infantry Battalion and was there in September 1812 a regimental doctor of the 7th Line Regiment. As a participant in the Battle of Mosaick , he was awarded the Legion of Honor. During Napoleon's Russian campaign, he was captured by Russia and then had to participate in the campaign on the Russian side as Napoleon's pursuer until he was liberated from captivity in 1813. After the end of his Russian captivity in July 1813, he became chief physician of the Westphalian division in Saxony. When the Kingdom of Westphalia collapsed, he was medical officer and chief of the kingdom's military and medicinal system . Subsequently, Pockels fought on the side of the troops of the Brunswick Duke Friedrich Wilhelm against Napoleon in 1814 and 1815 and remained as a military doctor in the Brunswick Army even after the Wars of Liberation . He was promoted to senior staff physician in 1824 and appointed body wound physician in 1826 . In 1829 he joined the Ducal Upper Medical College as an assessor. Until his retirement on October 1, 1840, Pockels was the head of the Brunswick military medical service.

Over four years he undertook extensive educational trips that took him to all German universities. England, France and Italy were also targets of his scientific expeditions.

literature

  • Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809-1899 Göttingen 2002, p. 39, No. 71.
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 463f, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8
  • KS: Braunschweig in the years 1806-1815. Second issue. A picture directory compiled for the exhibition of patriotic memories from the period 1806 to 1815 held in Braunschweig in June 1890. 2nd edition. Braunschweig 1890, pp. 124–125 with illustration 476

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Paul Zimmermann:  Karl Friedrich Pockels . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 338 f.
personal data
SURNAME Pockels, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Einbeck
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1840
Place of death Braunschweig