Caesar Adolf Bloesch

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Bloesch portrait by Aurèle Robert, created posthumously (1865)
Bloesch house in Biel

Caesar Adolf Bloesch (born December 5, 1804 in Biel ; † November 10, 1863 there ) was a Swiss physician, local politician and author.

Life

Caesar Adolf Bloesch was a son of the doctor Johann Alexander Bloesch and Marie-Louise Bloesch-Moser and a brother of Eduard and Friedrich or Fritz Bloesch. He attended high school in his hometown and studied medicine in Zurich and Göttingen from 1821 to 1827. For study purposes he also stayed temporarily in Paris and Berlin . In 1827 he settled in Biel as a doctor. In 1846, together with a few colleagues, he founded the medical district association, which served to exchange information about new research results, etc.

In the approximately 35 years of his medical practice, he kept journals on his patients, as he had learned as a student. Of the 57 volumes in these notes, 55 have been preserved. At the beginning of the 21st century, they became the subject of several doctoral and other research projects and also served as the basis for an exhibition in the New Museum in Biel , which took place in 2015.

Bloesch, who from 1828 was married to Elisa Pugnet, a daughter of the doctor Jean-François Xavier Pugnet , was also politically active. Among other things, he campaigned for Biel to get a railway connection. He was a member of the civic and residents' council and at times also president of these bodies.

In addition, he organized the Biel city archives and wrote a three-volume history of the city of Biel , which appeared in 1855/56 and was long considered a standard work.

The house at Mühlebrücke 5 in Biel, which Bloesch acquired in 1840, is known today as the Bloesch House and is the seat of the city president. He had previously lived at Obergasse 22.

literature

  • Isabel Atzl, Philipp Klaas (Ed.): The sick Biel. On a doctor's visit around 1850. NMB, Biel 2015.
  • Lina Gafner: Paperwork. The everyday knowledge practice of a Biel doctor in the 19th century (= historical knowledge research. Vol. 7). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christoph Zürcher: Blösch, Caesar Adolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ Philipp Klaas: Caesar Adolf Bloesch - an obstetrician? Insights into his medical practice between 1832 and 1850. In: Gesnerus 69/1, 2012, pp. 110–125, here p. 112
  3. ↑ Atzl / Klaas 2015, p. 42.
  4. ↑ Atzl / Klaas 2015, p. 68, the first name Catharina is given for the wife; She is called Katharina Louise Elisabeth on www.bernergeschlecht.ch . There are also three children mentioned who emerged from the connection.
  5. ↑ a b Atzl / Klaas 2015, p. 68
  6. ↑ Digitized history of the city of Biel and its Panner area , doi: 10.3931 / e-rara-18000
  7. ↑ Atzl / Klaas 2015, p. 69
  8. ↑ Atzl / Klaas 2015, p. 82.
personal data
SURNAME Bloesch, Caesar Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blosch, Caesar Adolf; Bloesch, César-Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physician, local politician and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1863
Place of death Biel