Carl Heinrich Hertwig

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Carl Heinrich Hertwig, lithograph by Carl Resener

Carl Heinrich Hertwig , also Karl Heinrich Hertwig (born January 10, 1798 in Ohlau , † July 19, 1881 in Berlin ) was a German veterinarian , university teacher and medical adviser .

Life

Carl Hertwig attended the grammar school in Brieg . From 1817 he studied pharmacy at the Royal Surgical Institute in Wroclaw . A government scholarship enabled him to study veterinary medicine at the Veterinary Schools in Vienna (1819/1820) and Munich (1820/1821). In 1822 he passed his veterinary exam in Berlin.

He then traveled to Germany, Switzerland, France, England and Holland to complete his academic training.

In 1823 he got a job as a repetitor at the Animal Medicine School in Berlin and initially did special chemistry and operations . He was also the director of the Small Pets Clinic .

In 1826 he was in Berlin with his dissertation "Experimenta quaedam de effectibus laesionum in partibus encephali singularibus et de verosimili harum partium functione" doctorate and he took only a part, and in 1830 the management of the hospital barn school. A year later he passed the state examination as a doctor and surgeon .

He was promoted to first class veterinarian in 1828 and senior teacher in 1829. In 1833 he was appointed professor at the Thierarzneischule Berlin, and in 1837 he was also appointed veterinary professor in the Medical College of the Province of Brandenburg.

At the beginning of 1845 he made a trip to Bohemia on behalf of the Prussian government to investigate the rinderpest that had broken out there . In addition, he was appointed to a commission of inquiry with the task of researching and developing preventive measures against rinderpest in Russia , for which he was awarded the Order of St. Anne.

At the General War School , he held lectures on horse knowledge from 1855 . He was promoted to the Royal Medical Council in 1870 and retired in 1877.

In addition to researching and teaching at the university, Hertwig was also an extremely productive author of specialist books and editor of veterinary journals for his time. In 1835, together with Ernst Friedrich Gurlt, he founded the magazine for the whole of animal medicine , which he also published until 1874.

Works (selection)

  • Contribution to the closer knowledge of the angry sickness or madness of the dogs . Reimer, Berlin, 1829
  • Handbook of practical pharmacology for veterinarians . Verlag Veit & Comp., Berlin, 1833 (in several editions)
  • together with Ernst Friedrich Gurtl: Comparative studies on the skin of humans and domestic mammals and on the scabies or mange mites . Hirschwald Verlag , Berlin, 1835 (in several editions)
  • together with Onésime Delafond : The blood disease of the sheep and the diseases similar to it as: the carbuncle disease, the poisoning diseases of pungent and poisonous plants, and the enzootic blood disease in the Sologne . Hirschwald Verlag, Berlin, 1844
  • together with Ernst Friedrich Gurtl: Surgical anatomy and operating theory for veterinarians . Reimer, Berlin, 1847
  • Investigation into the transition and lingering of arsenic in the animal's body . Enslin , Berlin, 1847
  • Practical handbook of surgery for veterinarians . Hirschwald Verlag, Berlin, 1850 (in several editions)
  • Pocket book of all horse studies . Hirschwald Verlag, Berlin, 1851 (in several editions)
  • The diseases of dogs and their cure . Hirschwald Verlag, Berlin, 1853 (in several editions)
  • with Carl Gottlob Heinrich Erdmann: Veterinary reception customers and pharmacopoeia together with a collection of tried and tested healing formulas . Berlin 1856 (in several editions)

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Theophil Gerber: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine. Biographical Lexicon . NORA Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-936735-67-3 , Vol. 1, p. 299.
  • Georg Wilhelm Schrader : Biographical-literary lexicon of the veterinarians of all times and countries . Ebner & Seubert, 1863; P. 195 ff.

Web links

Wikisource: Magazine for the entire animal medicine  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 9. Leipzig 1907, pp. 238–239.
  2. ↑ a b c d Rudolf Wernicke: The anatomical theater of veterinary medicine: a Langhansbau through the ages and its users . Interest group medicine and society, 2006, p. 34 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ a b magazine for the entire animal medicine and cattle breeding . Ricker, 1840, p. 434 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ A b Rudolf Wernicke: The anatomical theater of veterinary medicine: a Langhansbau through the ages and its users . Interest group medicine and society, 2006, p. 33 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Magazine for the entire animal medicine . 1870, p. 255 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ Karl Heinrich Hertwig: Contributions to the closer knowledge of the rage sickness or madness of dogs . Printed and published by G. Reimer, 1829 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  7. ↑ Karl Heinrich Hertwig: The diseases of dogs and their healing . Verlag von August Hirschwald, 1853 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  8. ^ New medicinisch-surgical newspaper: 1840, 2 . 1840, p. 463 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  9. ↑ Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . CA Schwetschke, 1846, p. 234 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  10. ^ Central literary sheet for Germany . G. Wigand, 1874, p. 1222 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Hertwig, Carl Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hertwig, Karl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian, university professor and medical adviser
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Ohlau
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1881
Place of death Berlin