Cajetan from Textor

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Cajetan from Textor

Joseph Cajetan Textor , from 1849 knight of Textor , also Kajetan Textor (born December 28, 1782 in Markt Schwaben near Ebersberg , † August 7, 1860 in Würzburg ), was a German surgeon and professor at the University of Würzburg .

biography

Cajetan von Textor came from a poor background (and was the 14th child of his parents), excelled at school and attended school in the Benedictine monastery Seeon and from 1796 until he graduated from high school in 1802 at the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . He studied medicine at the University of Landshut from 1804 to 1808 (doctorate on tuberculosis) as a student of Philipp Franz von Walther . After completing the Biennium Practicum at the military hospital in Munich with the physician and later royal personal physician Bernhard Joseph von Hartz , he was on a state scholarship on a study trip with Alexis Boyer in Paris, wandered through southern France and Switzerland in 1811, studied with Antonio Scarpa in Pavia , visited Naples and studied with Georg Joseph Beer (eye surgery) in Vienna. In 1813 he passed the trial relation and in 1814 the state examination (state bankruptcy) in Munich, where he was a resident doctor and secondary doctor in the general hospital in Munich.

In 1816 he became professor of surgery and chief surgeon at the Juliusspital of the University of Würzburg. In 1832 he was dismissed in Würzburg because he was suspected of having revolutionary sympathies ( July Revolution of 1830 , Hambach Festival ), but received his chair again in 1834. In between he was director of the surgical clinic in Landshut in 1832. In 1842/43 he was rector of the university. In 1852 he temporarily withdrew from his teaching duties for health reasons, was officially released from it in 1853, but held lectures on surgery until 1854 and supervised surgical exercises with his son Karl Textor.

In 1818 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Würzburg and in 1848 in Prague and in 1822 royal Bavarian councilor. On November 28, 1824 he was elected a member (matriculation no. 1290) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Sabatier . In 1849 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , with which the ennoblement was connected. In addition, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Wilhelm Order.

Thanks to some successful stone operations, among other things, he had already had a good reputation as a surgeon in Munich and built it up in Würzburg, particularly in bone and joint surgery and trauma surgery. In 1847 he performed his first ether anesthesia in Würzburg (the technique had just become known from America at the time). For this he used an inhalation device developed by his student Robert von Welz .

Bernhard Heine , whose osteotome used Textor in operations, is one of his students . Textor also built on Heine's observations on new bone formation and regeneration after resections and carried out experiments (subject of his Rector's speech in 1842: About the regeneration of bones after resections in humans). Exact indications for trepanation after skull fractures also come from Textor .

The surgeon and later associate professor in Würzburg Karl Textor (1815-1880) was his son. Despite the efforts of his father, he was not his successor in Würzburg (but in 1856 Wenzel von Linhart ).

Fonts

  • Publication of the German edition by Alexis Boyer: Basics of the teaching of surgical operations , 1818 to 1827, 2nd edition 1834 to 1841.
    • Basic features of the teaching of surgical operations which are undertaken with armed hand , Würzburg: Stahelsche Buchhandlung 1835 ( archive ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 219.
  2. As well as the internist Johann Lukas Schönlein and some other professors. But Textor was not actively involved in revolutionary endeavors.
  3. ^ Michael Holzmann and Hanns Bohatta: Deutsches Pseudonym-Lexikon. Akademischer Verlag, Vienna and Leipzig 1906, p. 243 (archive.org) .
  4. Member entry of Joseph Cajetan von Textor at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 21, 2017.
  5. Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1858, p. 20.
  6. Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1858, p. 72.