Carl Friedrich Koch (doctor)
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.
Fonts (selection)
- De observationibus nonnullis microscopicis sanguinis cursum et inflammationem spectantibus atque de suppuratione . 1825
- The gymnastics from the point of view of dietetics and psychology: together with a message from the gymnastic institute in Magdeburg . Magdeburg: Creutz'sche Buchh., 1830.
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch; Carl Friedrich Koch: Codex of the art of chess game: according to the pattern games and rules of the greatest masters. 3 Six hundred chess exercises for more experienced players . Magdeburg Heinrichshofen 1834.
- Concerning the Royal Prussian Medicinal System . Berlin Schade 1838.
- About negligence of medicinal persons and their attribution, with reference to the revised draft of the Prussian penal laws . Magdeburg 1838.
- About the procedure for the settlement of pharmacist concessions . Halle: Lippert and Schmidt, 1844.
- Comments on the reform of the Prussian medicinal system from the point of view of the administration . Merseburg Garcke Halle by Colbatzky 1847.
- Contribution to the revision of the medicinal taxes . Merseburg: L. Garcke, 1847.
- On the conditions for the existence and prosperity of the Prussian constitutional life from the standpoint of political anthropology . Hall CEM Pfeffer 1859.
- Courage, independence, presence of mind and a cheerful disposition as a result of gymnastic exercise . Milwaukee, Wis .: Freethinkers Pub. Co., 1860.
- Turn target to the German gymnastics clubs . Magdeburg, 1862.
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.
Web links
- Carl Friedrich Koch at Magdeburg University - Biographies
- Carl Friedrich Koch in Ärzteblatt Saxony-Anhalt
- Jahn-Eiselen'schen Turnbuch Die Deutsche Turnkunst Digitized in the German text archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
personal data | |
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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 |