Bernhard Ornstein

Bernhard Ornstein (born May 2, 1809 in Schöningen , † February 13, 1896 in Athens ) was a German medic.

Ornstein received his doctorate in medicine in Gießen in 1833 and was a military doctor in Greece from 1834 , most recently as general doctor . First he came in the wake of King Otto , later he became a citizen of the country and was taken over into the Greek army when Otto was expelled. From 1840 to 1842 and from 1849 to 1854 he was director of the military hospital in Lamia . Later he was the chief military doctor. In 1882 he retired and lived in Larisa . He temporarily returned to his homeland for several years, where he wrote scientific papers.

He published anthropological works on Greece and epidemiological works (on smallpox, dengue fever, cholera and other infectious diseases).

In 1892 Bernhard Ornstein became a member of the Leopoldina . He was a corresponding member of the Berlin Anthropological Society and the Thuringian-Saxon Society for Geography.

Fonts

• About an unusual hair formation on the sacral region of a person. In: Negotiations of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory, born in 1875, Berlin 1875, pp. 91–92 (Google Books)
• About the physical conditions of Greece and its inhabitants, with special consideration of the longevity of the latter and its causes. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 13, Berlin 1881, pp. 11–95 (archive.org)

Web links

• Entry in Pagel, Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors, zeno.org
• Greek biography
• Portrait Bernhard Ornstein - National Historical Museum Athens

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member entry by Bernhard Ornstein at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 26, 2017.
2. ↑ Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory - Corresponding Members 1881
3. ^ Directory of the members of the Thuringian-Saxon Geography Association on March 31, 1885 ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )