Augustus Bozzi Granville
Augustus Bozzi Granville , born Augusto Bozzi (born October 7, 1783 in Milan , † March 3, 1872 in Dover ) was an Italian-born British general practitioner , gynecologist and author.
Life
He was the third son of Carlo Bozzi , postmaster general of the Austrian province of Lombardy , who came from an old and respected Lombard family and had personal connections with the Bonaparte family since his stay in Corsica . His mother was the Englishwoman Rosa Granville , whose name he later added to his own in London. After studying with the Barnabites in Milan from the age of six and graduating from the Collegio de Merati , he studied medicine at the University of Pavia . He was a staunch Republican and Italian patriot and opposed the French under Napoleon Bonaparte . That is why, as a student in Pavia, he even served as a political prisoner in prison.
After graduating, he joined a traveling theater company and sang to the guitar. In Corfu he met William R. Hamilton , the attaché of the British Ambassador Lord Elgin in Constantinople . He traveled to Greece with Hamilton . He then signed up as a doctor in the Turkish Navy , then switched to the British Royal Navy and sailed on various ships in the Mediterranean , to the West Indies and South America , where he met Simón Bolívar . For him, Granville brought documents to Sir Robert Peel in London in 1811 . at that time he developed malaria and yellow fever .
In London he married an Englishwoman and converted from Catholicism to the Anglican denomination . In 1813 he retired from the Royal Navy. He gained access to the medical establishment in London through personal recommendations from the social circle of his friend William R. Hamilton. But it was recommended that he should continue his education at the gynecological clinic l'Hospice de la Maternité in Paris and then settle in London as a gynecologist. Granville followed this advice and also attended lectures by Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1816 .
In 1818 he became a doctor at the Westminster Dispensary and in 1829 President of the Westminster Medical Society . Granville studied health statistics and causes of death among the workforce and was tenacious for the reforms needed. In his exile in London he also fought for the independence of Italy, which was divided among foreign powers (see: History of Italy ).
Granville was an educated and well-traveled man. So he had come to St. Petersburg twice and had the book St. Petersburgh about his travels . A Journal of Travels to and from that Capital; Through Flanders, the Rhenish Provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the Federated States of Germany, and France (London 1828). On January 2, 1828, on a trip, he also visited Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
For decades he was one of those British doctors in what was then the " Weltbad " Bad Kissingen ( Bavaria ), who practiced in the spa for a few weeks in the summer months so that the numerous English-speaking spa guests could be treated without language difficulties. During this time he also wrote his book Die Heilquellen in Kissingen (Leipzig 1850). From about 1855 to 1865 he also acted as secretary of the church committee that was responsible for the construction and administration of the new Anglican church in Bad Kissingen.
Granville is said to have carried out the first medical autopsy on an ancient Egyptian mummy - Irtyersenu (about 600-550 BC) from Thebes - in 1821 , as he described in a lecture given to the Royal Society of London on April 14, 1825 , which was subsequently under entitled An essay on Egyptian mummies (W. Nicol Verlag, London 1825). At that time, the gynecologist believed to have determined uterine cancer as the cause of death. Today's scientists believe Granville refuted and found tuberculosis as the cause, as was reported worldwide in 2009.
In addition to his medical and scientific work, he published more than 220 books and writings that were translated into seven languages. In 1874, two years after his death, his autobiography Autobiography of AB Granville was published.
Orders and awards
- Royal Bavarian Order of Merit from Saint Michael
Publications (selection)
- An Historical and practical treatise on the internal use of the hydrocyanic (prussic) acid in pulmonary consumption and other diseases of the chest , Verlag Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820 ( online )
- An essay on Egyptian mummies , Verlag W. Nicol, London 1825 ( online )
- St. Petersburgh. A Journal of Travels to and from that Capital; Through Flanders, the Rhenish Provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the Federated States of Germany, and France , Verlag Henry Colburn, London 1828 ( online )
- The Royal society in XIXth century , London 1836 ( online )
- The spas of Germany , published by Henry Colburn, London 1838 ( online ). - Reprint: British Library, Historical Print Editions, March 2011, ISBN 1241323119 or ISBN 978-1241323110
- The healing springs in Kissingen. Your use u. their effectiveness , translated by Theodor Cramer, Verlag JJ Weber, Leipzig 1850 ( online )
- Autobiography of AB Granville , PB Granville (Ed.), 2 volumes, London 1874 ( online )
literature
- Alex Sakula: Augustus Bozzi Granville (1783–1872). London physician-accoucheur and Italian patriot , in: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine , Volume 76, 1983, pages 876-882
Web links
- Literature by and about Augustus Bozzi Granville in the catalog of the German National Library
- Catalog of works of the Berlin State Library
- Works directory on Google books
Individual evidence
- ^ William Chambers, Robert Chambers: Chambers's journal , Volume 52, Verlag W. & R. Chambers, 1875, page 26 ( excerpt )
- ^ Augustus Bozzi Granville: Spas of England and principal sea-bathing places , reprint: Verlag Adams and Dart, 1971
- ^ The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London , Volume 3, Royal College of Physicians of London (Ed.), 1878
- ↑ Tag Archives: Augustus Bozzi Granville
- ^ Adrián J. Desmond: The politics of evolution , 1989, p. 422 ( digitized version )
- ^ Frank Jakobus Rühli: Zürcher medizingeschichtliche Abhandlungen , Verlag Juris, 1998, ISBN 3260054219 or ISBN 9783260054211 , page 22 ( excerpt )
- ↑ Dr. Granville was wrong: Irtyersenu died of tuberculosis , dpa report on n-tv.de from October 4, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bozzi Granville, Augustus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bozzi Granville, Augusto; Bozzi, Augusto; Granville, Augustus; Granville, Augustus B .; Granville, Augustin B. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British doctor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1783 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1872 |
| Place of death | Dover |