Carl Anton Eduard Lorent

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Carl Anton Eduard Lorent (born April 10, 1809 in Bremen , † January 23, 1886 in Bremen) was a German physician and director of the hospitals in Bremen.

biography

Old clinic building from 1851, Sankt-Jürgen-Straße

Lorent's parents died when he was very young. He was brought up in Bückeburg by Princess Amalie. He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen , the University of Heidelberg , the University of Vienna and the University of Munich as well as in Zurich and Paris. He then worked as an assistant at the insane asylum of St. Michael Abbey (Siegburg) , where he had recommended warm and cold rain baths for the treatment of mental illnesses which, in his opinion , had been caused by early and long-term "masturbation" .

In 1835 he returned to Bremen and founded a practice. He wrote articles for medical journals and organized the library of the medical association. He supported the establishment of a children's clinic in Bremen. He also founded the Association for Public Health. Through this work, a greater understanding of the health facilities in Bremen could be achieved: The urban sewerage system was improved, water pipes were built and a slaughterhouse could go into operation.

In 1855 Lorent became the medical director of the general hospital on Sankt-Jürgen-Strasse in Bremen, which has been known as this since 1865 . He gave up his private practice and became head of the hospital in 1864. He tried to found a hospital for the Bremen Diakonie , which was only built from 1878 to 1880 with 45 beds on Fichtenstrasse. Lorent has decisively expanded and improved the Bremen health system.

He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

family

Lorent married Hermine Margarethe Wilhelmine von Lengerke (1820–1895) in 1839.

Honors

The Lorentstraße in Bremen- Hemelingen , district Sebaldsbrück, was named after him.

Works

  • Biographical sketches of deceased physicians and naturalists from Bremen. A ceremony for the twentieth meeting of German natural scientists and doctors in Bremen. Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen 1844, online at archive.org .

literature

  • Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon , complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salina Braun: "As for the main cause of his mental illness, ... self-defilement". Disease attributions and treatment practices in the Irren-Heil-Anstalt Siegburg (1825–1878). The fall of Georg v. G. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 25, 2006, pp. 43-61, here: pp. 48-51.
  2. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
personal data
SURNAME Lorent, Carl Anton Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and clinic director
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1886
Place of death Bremen