Carl von Basedow
Carl Adolph von Basedow or Karl Adolf von Basedow (born March 28, 1799 in Dessau , Principality of Anhalt-Dessau , † April 11, 1854 in Merseburg , Province of Saxony ) was a German doctor who worked as a family doctor and physician in Merseburg.
Life
Basedow is a grandson of the pedagogue Johann Bernhard Basedow and son of the Anhalt-Dessau consistorial president Ludwig von Basedow . His mother Johanna Krüger (1776–1837) was the daughter of the forester Krüger. His brother was Friedrich von Basedow . He graduated from high school in Dessau and then studied medicine at the University of Halle from 1819 to 1821 . There he became a member of the Corps Pomerania. It was founded in 1821 by Johann Friedrich Meckel the Younger with a thesis on a new amputation method on the lower leg (Commentationes in novam amputationis cruris panniculatae encheiresin ). From 1821 to 1822 he sat at the Charité in Paris with Roux, Dupyutren and Boyer. In 1822 he received his license to practice medicine .
In 1822 Basedow married Friederike Louise Scheuffelhuth. Together they had three daughters and a son, with the youngest daughter dying at the age of six months.
From 1822 Basedow practiced as a family doctor in Merseburg. He took part in the fight against cholera epidemics in Magdeburg and Merseburg while neglecting his own health . In 1834 he successfully passed the physics exam and held the post until the end of his life. In 1838 the family was again awarded the title of nobility by the Prussian King. Basedow was appointed to the Royal Medical Council in 1842, and in 1848 he became a district physician in Merseburg.
He was a doctor who was very committed to hygiene and health care. B. used for the prohibition of arsenic colors such as Schweinfurt green . He developed a "sick note", instructed drinking water tests and prescribed air and light therapies, for which he sent patients to health resorts.
In 1840, he was the first in the German-speaking area to describe Basedow's disease , which was later named after him , an overactive thyroid . In total, he published about 60 scientific publications.
Carl von Basedow died of a septic infection with typhus , which he contracted during an autopsy .
The Carl-von-Basedow-Klinikum Saalekreis GmbH in Merseburg and Querfurt is named after him today and functions as the academic teaching hospital of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .
literature
- Herbert Broghammer: Medical Councilor Dr. Karl Adolf von Basedow (March 28, 1799 - April 14, 1854), district physician of Merseburg (= résumés - life stories. Vol. 3). Centaurus, Herbolzheim 2000, ISBN 3-8255-0309-7 .
- Hans-Dieter Göring: Dr. med. Carl Adolph von Basedow - A doctor of international renown from Dessau. In: Dessau calendar. ISSN 0420-1264 , edition 2014, pp. 26–35.
- Leo Norpoth: Basedow, Karl Adolph von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 620 ( digitized version ).
- Julius Pagel : Basedow, Karl Adolph von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, p. 230.
- Julius Pagel: Basedow, Karl . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin / Vienna 1901, column 100.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl von Basedow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biographical presentation ( PDF file; 3.08 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 104 , 9
- ↑ Graves: Exophthalmos due to hypertrophy of the cell tissue in the eye socket. In: Weekly of the entire medicine. Volume 6, 1840, pp. 197-204 and 220-228.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Basedow, Carl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Basedow, Carl Adolph von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1854 |
| Place of death | Merseburg |