Bernhard Hirschel

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Bernhard Hirschel

Bernhard Baruch Hirschel (born January 15, 1815 in Dresden ; † January 15, 1874 ibid) was a German politician and physician who practiced in Dresden. He was one of the pioneers of homeopathy in 19th century Germany.

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Hirschel was born the son of the Jewish clothes dealer Abraham Hirschel (1787-1830) and his wife Bella (1794-1845). From the age of four he attended the voluntary Jewish elementary school, the cheder of teachers Gutmann and Ruben Bauer, to learn Hebrew there. From Easter 1825 he was one of the first Jews to attend the Dresden Kreuzschule . As a half-orphan, he was temporarily waived his school fees before he was able to complete his schooling in 1832 with a high school diploma. Due to a lack of money, he first attended the medical-surgical academy in Dresden, before he was finally able to study medicine at the University of Leipzig in 1834 . Much of his studies were financially supported by the Dresden Mendelssohn Association. He then settled in Dresden as a practicing doctor.

During the pre-March period , he got involved as a liberal thought leader in Saxon state politics. With his critical analysis of the events of the state parliament in 1846 in the book of Saxony's government, estates and people , he provided one of the most important testimonies to the pre-revolutionary events in the Kingdom of Saxony . In 1848 he joined the Dresden Fatherland Association and became one of its leaders. After the Jews were (almost) legally equated with the Christians in Saxony in the spring of 1849, Hirschel was elected Dresden's first Jewish city councilor. As a result of the Dresden May Uprising , he was arrested on May 9, 1849. He recorded his experiences in the manuscript diary of a prisoner .

Between 1852 and 1874 Hirschel was editor of the journal for homeopathic clinic . He published numerous books on homeopathy and worked as a medical historian . He died in 1874 as a medical councilor on his 59th birthday.

Works

Political works

  • Saxony's government, estates and people , Mannheim 1846, p. 190 ( digitized version )
  • Draft of a new constitutional charter for the Kingdom of Saxony , Dresden 1848
  • Saxony's recent past. A contribution to assessing the present , Freiberg 1849 ( digitized version )
  • Diary of a prisoner , 1849 ( digitized version )
  • My life story ( digitized version )

Medical works (selection)

  • Hydriatica: or justification of water medicine on scientific principles, history and literature. With exposition of all recent writings on water medicine according to their content and values. , Leipzig, Otto Wigand, 1840 ( digitized version )
  • What is somnambulism, what is animal magnetism: In addition to an appendix relating to the Somnambule Höhne now in Dresden , Dresden 1840 ( digitized version )
  • History of medicine, presented in the main features of its development . Arnold, Dresden 1843
  • History of Brown's System , 1846
  • Compendium of homeopathy according to its newest standpoint , 1851 (1st A.), 1862 (2nd A.) ( digitized version )
  • Rules & Examples for the Study of Pharmacodynamics ( digitized version )
  • Hydratics: A Manuel of the Water Cure of Priessnitz ( digitized version )
  • The homeopathic treasure trove in its application on the sickbed. For Family and Home , 1861 (3rd A.) ( digitized version )
  • Outline of Homeopathy According to Your Latest Viewpoints, and Instructions , 1854 ( digitized version )
  • The stomach pains, especially the stomach cramp , 1866 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Simone Lässig: Jewish Paths to the Bourgeoisie. Cultural capital and social advancement in. 19th century . Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2004, p. 194ff. ( on Google Books )
  • Fritz D. Schroers: Lexicon of German-speaking homeopaths . Karl F. Haug, Stuttgart 2006, p. 64.
  • Marion A. Kaplan: Jewish daily life in Germany, 1618–1945 . Oxford University Press 2005, passim.
  • Christina Domke: The Dresden doctor Bernhard Hirschel (1815–1874) and his services to the history of medicine. Dresden, Med. Akad., Diss. A, 1986.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Medical and scientific necrology of the year 1874
  2. ↑ Diary of a prisoner , 1849 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Doctors as members of the Saxon State Parliament 1832 to 1952 ( Memento from January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 80 kB), accessed on August 29, 2009
  4. ↑ Martina Schattkowsky, Uwe John: Dresden May Uprising and Imperial Constitution 1849: revolutionary aftershocks ... , p. 74f
personal data
SURNAME Hirschel, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirschel, Bernhard Baruch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and physician
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1874
Place of death Dresden