Burkhard Wilhelm Seiler

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Burkhard Wilhelm Seiler

Burkhard Wilhelm Seiler (born April 11, 1779 in Erlangen , † September 27, 1843 in Dresden ) was a German medic.

Life

The son of theologian Georg Friedrich Seiler (1733-1807) studied at the University of Erlangen from 1796 , where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1799. After continuing his education at hospitals in Würzburg, Bamberg, Vienna and Berlin, he was employed as the successor to Traugott Karl August Vogt in 1802 as the prosector of the anatomical theater of the University of Wittenberg . 1804 he takes over the substitute of Johann Gottfried Leonhardi and as he a call from the University of Charkowas a professor, he only allowed himself to be held in Wittenberg by assuring him that he would be given a full professorship. But since Vogt had died in the meantime, he took over his full professorship for anatomy and surgery in 1807 .

When he took over the professorship, he negotiated a substantial allowance, since as a professor he had to finance the teaching materials out of his own pocket. His lectures covered topics in therapy, surgery , physiology , forensic medicine and he gave a full course on anatomy every year . Furthermore, he improved the inventories of the anatomical theater , set up preparation rooms and also supported the production of specimens. With his work Commentatio primas lineas anatomiae chirurgicae complectens , published in 1802, he became, among other things, the founder of surgical anatomy in Germany. He turned down a call as professor at the University of Königsberg , mediated by Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland , because the Saxon government granted him an allowance of 300 thalers and his wife guaranteed a widow's pension.

In 1809 he was also the district physician of the spa district and city ​​physician in Kemberg . After he had also headed the rectorate of the university in the winter semester of 1811, he also lived through the wars of liberation . Wittenberg got caught in the crossfire of military conflicts in 1813. As large parts of the city were destroyed, most of the university's academic staff first fled to Kemberg. However, Kemberg was on a militarily heavily frequented street, so it was preferred to continue the university operations in Schmiedeberg . Here one endured with little academic activity and waited. After all, as an ally of Napoleon , Saxony had suffered a defeat. The Saxon areas around Wittenberg came to Prussia through the Congress of Vienna . After specialist consultations, it was decided to merge the University of Halle and the Wittenberg University. Thus, on April 12, 1815, the new University of Halle-Wittenberg was established . Some of the university teachers looked for a new existence in other places. In 1813 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Seiler therefore moved to Dresden, where a resolution dated October 15, 1815 founded a surgical medical academy to train doctors for the Saxon army. Seiler, who was involved in the planning for the establishment of this institution, became director of the academy, which opened on August 3, 1816, and professor of therapy. In 1817 he was also rector of the veterinary school founded there and played a key role in developing the institutions.

In 1824, his sphere of activity expanded, as he had to examine the district doctors, doctorates abroad, pharmacists and midwives and draw up state scientific reports due to the closure of the medical college that had existed since 1768. This gave him a seat and vote in the Saxon government and in 1827 was appointed court and medical councilor. Seiler was commissioned to rework the Saxon pharmacopoeia, he was a member of the cholera commission and set up a leech breeding facility at Moritzburg . After he had stimulated the Society for Nature and Medicine in 1818, he also took part in the publication of the Journal for Nature and Medicine (1818-1830).

Selection of works

• Scarpa, Antonio: Anatomical-surgical treatises on the fractures. Translated from the Italian and with additions by Burkhard Wilhelm Seiler, Renger Verlag, Halle (Saale), 1813; Leipzig, 1822;
• Anatomia coporis humani senilis, Erlangen 1799
• De morbis senum particula 1 et 2, Wittenberg 1806, 1807
• Observationes nonnullae de testicorum descensu et partium genitalium anomaliis, Leipzig 1817
• Theology of mankind with remarks from comparative anatomy for artists and art lovers, Dresden 1825
• The human uterus and egg in the first months of pregnancy, Dresden 1832
• Contributions to the history of the development of eggs and the embryo of animals, Dresden 1833
• Observations of original educational errors and complete lack of eyes, Dresden 1833
• Instruction on Asian cholera for non-doctors, Dresden 1831

literature

• Hermann Frölich:  Seiler, Burkhard Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 646 f.
• Wilhelm Haberling, Hermann Vierordt, Albrecht Wernich, August: Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of All Times and Nations, Vol. 5, p. 213
• Gustav Friedrich Hertzberg: To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the unification of the Universities of Halle and Wittenberg, Halle 1867
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg., Max Niemeyer Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1917,

Web links

• Johann Ludwig Choulant : History and bibliography of the anatomical illustration according to its relation to anatomical science and fine arts , Verlag Rudolf Weigel, Leipzig, 1852 Online
• Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg: The learned Teutschland in the 19th century: Oder, Lexicon of the now living German writers, vol. 15, pp. 449-450 online