Carl Friedrich Koch (doctor)

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Carl Friedrich Koch (born March 9, 1802 in Magdeburg , † 1871 in Merseburg ) was a German physician and educator.

Life

Carl Friedrich Koch was a son of the theologian, teacher and natural scientist Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch (1759–1831), a deacon at St. John's Church , director of the commercial school and later superintendent in Magdeburg.

He received his first school education at the Domgymnasium Magdeburg . In 1815 he received his gymnastics training in Biederitz near Magdeburg, where the school inspector, preacher and department head of the Tugendbund Carl Leberecht Messow had set up a gymnastics field based on Jahn's model in the spring of 1815 . From the age of 13 onwards, he hiked to Biederitz every Sunday in the summer months to do gymnastics with the village youth, although the gymnastics field was closed in 1819.

After studying medicine at the University of Göttingen and the University of Berlin , he wrote in 1825 his dissertation and doctorate Dr. med. He practiced as a doctor in Magdeburg since 1826, while doing part-time work at the Magdeburg Medical and Surgical College. After working as a doctor in Magdeburg, he took the initiative to set up a gymnasium, primarily for health and educational reasons, and was supported by the mayor and district administrator August Wilhelm Francke , with whom he also formed the directorate of the gymnasium, so that on August 14, 1828, the first gymnastics area in the city on the Elbe was opened on the Sternwiese in Friedrich-Wilhelms-Garten with 172 pupils . Here it was mainly the pupils of the two grammar schools and the higher commercial school that did gymnastics; Participation in gymnastics was voluntary but subject to contributions. The gymnastics exercises came from the Jahn-Eiselen'schen gymnastics book Die Deutsche Turnkunst from 1816, but because all politics had to be kept away from the activities , the practice area operated under the politically neutral name Städtische Gymnastische Anstalt . During the imposed Turn lock had he experienced with his turn offer a great encouragement and feed so that his institution served as a model for similar start-ups (Szczecin, Quedlinburg, Salzwedel).

When in 1834 several former high school students got involved in the secret political opposition efforts of the student fraternities, the provincial government withdrew their trust. Disappointed by this, he asked for his release from the directorate of the gymnasium; the gymnasium was closed in 1835 by the mayor Francke. In his later position as a councilor he continued to campaign repeatedly for the promotion of gymnastics; For this reason, the men's gymnastics clubs in Magdeburg and Burg made him an honorary member.

In 1832 he became an assessor at the Medical College of the Province of Saxony and in 1838 went to Neuhaldensleben as a state district physician . Three years later, in 1841, he became a government and medical councilor in Merseburg , but also worked as a spa doctor in Lauchstädt . He died as a secret government and medical councilor .

Memberships

Carl Friedrich Koch was the initiator and chairman of the Association of Doctors and Pharmacists founded on March 26, 1842 in the Merseburg administrative district ; with him there were 60 founding members. Doctors and pharmacy owners with a doctorate in the Merseburg district were accepted. The members met regularly in regional “ reading circles ”. Anyone wishing to join the association had to send a request to a member of their choice and obtain the consent of two other members. The association was dissolved in May 1933.

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literature

  • Carl Friedrich Koch in Oesterreichische Turn-Zeitung, 1st year, volume 1, p. 106 f. Vienna 1876
  • Carl Friedrich Koch in the 2005 yearbook of the German Society for the History of Sports Science. VS 76 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Koch, Carl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, CF; Koch, Carl F .; Koch, Karl Friedrich; Koch, Karl F .; Koch, Carolus Fridercus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH 1871
Place of death Merseburg