Benjamin Jan Kouwer

Benjamin Jan Kouwer

Benjamin Jan Kouwer (born August 31, 1861 in Wormerveer , † January 8, 1933 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch gynecologist.

Life

Benjamin Jan was the son of the insurer and later mayor of Zaandijk Jan Kouwer (born August 13, 1826 in Wormerveer; † June 10, 1891 in Zaandijk) and his wife Maatje Hartog (born December 10, 1834 in Wormerveer; † March 25, 1919 in Zeist). He had attended the high school in Zaandam and enrolled at the University of Leiden on October 1, 1878 , to study medicine. Here Adriaan Heynsius , Teunis Zaaijer , Derk Doyer , Guillaume Daniel Louis Huet and above all Abraham Everard Simon Thomas became his teachers. After further studies in 1883 at the University of Heidelberg , he returned to Leiden, where he passed his medical exam in April 1883. He then worked as an assistant to Simon Thomas at the maternity clinic of the academic hospital in Leiden, under which he received his doctorate in medicine on December 6, 1884 with the work Verslag der verloskundige kliniek en polikliniek van het rijks-academisch ziekenhuis te Leiden 1883-1884 . After he had ceased working as an assistant on September 1, 1885, he made a trip to Indonesia as a ship's doctor on the ship Jacatra and became a doctor in Haarlem in March 1886 .

In Haarlem he had worked at the Elisabeth Hospital from July 1887 and founded the X-ray Institute there with other doctors. On October 21, 1898 he was appointed professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Utrecht , which Kouwer was given on January 20, 1899 with the introductory speech Over het verband tusschen gynaecologische en other ziekten (German: About the relationships between gynekological and other diseases ) started. In the course of his medical career, he wrote scientific treatises on pregnancy, abortion, childbirth and caesarean sections. He published these in the Dutch medical journals Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (German: Journal for Medicine ) and Tijdschrift voor Verloskunde en Gynaecologie (German: Journal for Obstetrics and Gynecology ). He was an opponent of the Nieuw-Malthusianisme, a Dutch movement for birth control. In 1902, Kouwer took part in the founding of an association for young children without care , in the same year became a member of the Nederlandsche Bond voor Ziekenverpleging (German: Dutch Association for Health Care ), and in 1903 became a member of the Nederlandsche Maatschappii ter Bevordering der Geneeskunst (German: Dutch Society for Promotion of medicine ), 1899 member of the Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (German: Provençal Utrecht Society for the Arts and Sciences ) and 1923 member of Hollansche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (German: Dutch Society of Sciences ) in Haarlem.

As a gynecologist for Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands , he assisted her in a miscarriage that occurred in May 1902 and gave birth to her daughter Juliana on April 30, 1909 . He also participated in the organizational tasks of the Utrecht University and was rector of the Alma Mater in the academy year 1913/14 , for which he gave the speech Gebrekkig idealisme (German: Fehlerhater Idealismus ) on the 278th anniversary of the university on March 29, 1915 . At gynecological congresses in Berlin and Paris he worked as honorary chairman, he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion in 1902 and Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1909 . After giving his farewell lecture, he retired from his professorship on September 20, 1926.

family

Kouwer married on May 31, 1888 in Haarlem with Wilhelma Mathilde Adrieette Quirine Kluppel (born April 26, 1867 in Kediri; † March 21, 1952 in Utrecht), daughter of Andries Jacob Kluppel (born October 12, 1838 in Gameren; † 9 April 1926 in Haarlem) and his wife Quirine Georgine Louise Henriette Clasine de Meij (born January 20, 1830 in Lienden (Buren), † April 14, 1899 in Haarlem). From the marriage comes the son Maurits Kouwer (born July 28, 1891 in Haarlem), who met Maria Jacoba Hoitsema (born November 17, 1894 in Breda) on September 6, 1915 in Utrecht (November 21, 1934 in Dordrecht). † May 10, 1977 in Hilversum) and the son Jan Kouwer (born March 24, 1889 in Haarlem; † June 3, 1976 in Utrecht) married. on June 26, 1919 in Baarn with Kathinka Johanna van Dorp (born January 19, 1894 in Wiesbaden; † November 30, 1987).

Works (selection)

• Failed the kliniek en polikliniek van het Rijks-Academisch Ziekenhuis te Leiden. 1883-1884. Leiden 1884
• Treating the forested milt door splenopexis. 1895
• Ovarium-zwangerschap. 1897
• Het gespleten bekken. 1901
• Lottery kliniek en polikliniek Utrecht. 1901-1916
• Prof. Hector Treub en het Nieuw = Malthusianisme. Kampen, 1904, ( online )
• Kraamverpleging. Groningen 1906, 1911, 1927, etc.
• De indicatie der operative treatment of appendicitis. 1907
• Uit De Geschiedenis Der Klinieken Voor Heel- en Verloskunde Der Rijks-universiteit Te Utrecht Met Een Beschrijving Der Nieuwe Inrichting. Kampen 1908
• Gebrekkig idealisme. Speech, uitgesproken op den 278en Gedenkdag van de stichting of the Utrechtsche Hoogeschool. Kampen 1914
• Zwangerschap en longevity. 1915
• Stralenbehandeling in de gynecologie. 1915, 1920
• "Oude" eerstbaringen. 1917, 1918. 1919
• De Verbreiding Van De Geslachtsziekten En Hare Gevolgen, Zeist 1921
• Afdrijving der vrucht op geneeskundige gronden. 1928;
• Extra peritonale keizersnede. 1929
• De spildraai. 1929.

literature

• How is that? Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1931, p. 142
• Prof. Dr. BJ Kouwer †. In: Het Vaderland, Staat- en Letterkundig Nieuwsblad. P. 1, dated January 9, 1933 (accessed July 12, 2016, online )
• Prof. Kouwer †. In: De Indische Courant. from January 10, 1933, p. 3, (accessed July 13, 2016, online )

Web link

• Kouwer in the Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae