Carl Ernst Bock
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Carl Ernst Bock (also Karl Ernst Bock ; born February 21, 1809 in Leipzig , † February 19, 1874 in Wiesbaden ) was a German anatomist . He was the son of the Leipzig anatomist and prosector August Carl Bock , whom he had assisted early on. Before his training as an anatomist and pathologist, he worked surgically in Warsaw in 1830/1831 as a field doctor in the Russian-Polish war . In Vienna Bock sat in with Carl von Rokitansky .
After his return from Poland, Bock had successfully completed his habilitation. After his father died in 1833, Carl Ernst Bock cared for his mother and four siblings as the sole breadwinner. For this purpose, he worked as a lecturer, lecturer and tutor for students in the Leipzig Medical Faculty, authored specialist books and was a consultant doctor in a municipal hospital in Leipzig. He also worked as a science journalist and wrote popular educational articles. He represented a “physiological medicine”, which he described as a dietary life program in the tradition of the Regimina sanitatis both from 1855 in his “Book of Healthy and Sick People” and from 1853 in columns of the journal Die Gartenlaube as its “most important author” (according to the editor Ernst Keil) represented.
In 1839 he became associate professor of medicine at the University of Leipzig and in 1845 professor of pathological anatomy there. Like his father, he was still connected to solidarity pathology . He recognized the Krasen doctrine of his teacher Rokitansky, but the familiarization with the new cellular pathology of Rudolf Virchow was difficult for him. He was given a chair of his own, as was his father's prosecution. He founded the Leipzig gymnastics club with the orthopedic surgeon Moritz Schreber . Bock became known for his anatomical textbooks and handbooks as well as the popular science articles in the illustrated magazine " Die Gartenlaube ", in whose design and success he has played a major role since its publication in 1853. With dissident views and system-critical attacks he caused a short-term Prussian ban on the gazebo and his own dismissal from the royal Saxon civil service.
Impressed by the electrophysiological experiments by Emil du Bois-Reymond , Bock developed a progressive concept of "nervousness" by 1860. However, he did not achieve scientific reputation. With his contributions in the gazebo , he fought against new, in his eyes paramedical (ineffective to dangerous) concepts such as spiritualism , animal magnetism and fluid , theosophy , life force , life alarm , hydropathy , homeopathy and od theory . Representatives of alternative and complementary therapies, especially from the circle of homeopaths and "hydropaths", in particular Theodor Hahn , expressed themselves with attacks against his reputation and interpretative sovereignty .
Bock, whose health was badly damaged after 1870, tried in vain to get relief from his breathing difficulties by visiting hydropathic establishments and baths, whose hydrotherapeutic effect he had previously denied. He died as a spa guest in Wiesbaden after a stroke.
Bock's anonymously published articles were identified by Florian Mildenberger in 2012 .
Fonts (selection)
- Manual of Human Anatomy . 2 volumes, 1838, 4th edition 1849
- Anatomical paperback . 1839, 5th edition 1864
- Hand atlas of human anatomy . 1840, 6th edition 1871
- Pathological anatomy textbook . 1852, 4th edition 1861
- Diagnostic textbook . 1852, 4th edition 1864
- The book of healthy and sick people. 2 volumes. Ernst Keil , Leipzig 1855; 10th, significantly increased edition 1875; further (revised) editions until 1929.
literature
- August Hirsch: Bock, Karl Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 767 f.
- Wilhelm Katner: Bock, Carl Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 343 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Florian Mildenberger: Medical instruction for the middle class. Medicinal cultures in the magazine "Die Gartenlaube" (1853–1944). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2012 (= medicine, society and history. Supplement 45), ISBN 978-3-515-10232-2
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Ernst Bock in the catalog of the German National Library
- Carl Ernst Bock in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Overview of the courses taught by Carl Ernst Bock at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1832 to summer semester 1874)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bock, Carl Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bock, Karl Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German anatomist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1874 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |