Carl Friedrich von Marcus

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Carl Friedrich Marcus , from 1834 Ritter von Marcus , (also Karl ; born September 2, 1802 in Bamberg ; † August 23, 1862 in Würzburg ) was a German doctor , forensic doctor and university professor for internal medicine, pathology and psychiatry as well as the history of medicine.

Life

Marcus was the adopted child of the Bamberg clinic and prince-bishop's personal physician Adalbert Friedrich Marcus . He initially received private tuition and then attended the Bamberg high school until 1817 , before going to the University of Würzburg in 1817 and studying medicine. During his studies in 1818 he became a member of the old Würzburg fraternity Germania . In 1822 he was in Würzburg with Johann Lukas Schönlein , as his assistant he worked in the Juliusspital , with the dissertation De morbis columnae vertebralis to the Dr. med. PhD . His license to practice medicine took place again in Bamberg in 1823. As a member of the General German Burschenschaft , he was involved in a criminal investigation into high treason in 1824/1825 , where he spent 13 months in custody in Munich. However, the investigation did not substantiate the suspicion.

Marcus became an assistant doctor at the General Hospital in Munich in 1825 , where he met Professor Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis and became a court doctor in 1827 , first in Leutershausen and later in Aichach .

In 1832, Marcus became full professor for medical clinic, special pathology and therapy at the University of Würzburg as Schönlein's successor. In 1833 he was appointed senior physician at the Würzburg Juliusspital and in 1836 he was appointed full professor for the nominal subject of the history of medicine . 1838 and 1839 he held the post of rector held the university, in 1843 he rejected a call to the University of Tübingen from. From 1848 he was teaching psychiatry in addition to his varied scope of teaching .

The sight of Marcus had ever further so that it as a full professor in 1854 at the Medical Clinic emeritus was, but he was still working as a general practitioner at the Julius Hospital and held beyond until his death in lectures on special pathology and therapy and history of medicine. The funeral speech at his grave was held by the Würzburg priest, senior librarian and Bavarian state parliament member Anton Ruland .

Honors

Marcus, who was the first to separate the curable from the incurable mentally ill, was the founder of the first permanent psychiatric clinic in Germany and is therefore considered one of the fathers of psychiatry in Germany, was appointed court counselor . In 1834 he received the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown . With the award of the medal the elevation to the personal nobility went hand in hand. In Wuerzburg is Marcus street named after him.

Publications (selection)

  • Dissertation de morbis columnae vertebralis , Würzburg 1822.
  • A few words about medicine as science and art , 1829.
  • About the development and the current position of Medicin , Würzburg 1838.

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SURNAME Marcus, Carl Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marcus, Karl Friedrich; Marcus, Carl Friedrich Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, psychiatrist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1862
Place of death Wurzburg