Carl Ipsen

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Carl Ipsen (born February 25, 1866 in Mediasch , † April 24, 1927 in Bad Gastein ) was a doctor.

Life

Carl Ipsen came from a middle-class background. He attended grammar school in Mediasch, Transylvania, and graduated from high school in 1884 with the best result of his year. He then studied medicine in Innsbruck , Munich and Prague . From 1888 he was an assistant at the forensic medical institute in Innsbruck under Julius Kratter , in 1891 he completed his studies there with a doctorate.

In the following year he followed Kratter to Graz , where he completed his habilitation in forensic medicine in 1894. In October 1894 he went back to Innsbruck and became head of the forensic medical institute there, in 1899 he became professor and in 1905/06 for the first time dean of the medical faculty, both there. In 1908/09 he was rector of the university and in 1911/12 he was dean again. From 1918 he was a member of the Academic Senate. He was also a full member of the Supreme Sanitary Council in Vienna from 1909 and a member of the Imperial German Academy of Natural Scientists (Leopoldina) in Halle from 1919 .

Ipsen has written numerous forensic reports. In 1904 he was a co-founder of the German Society for Forensic Medicine . From 1901 to 1907 he was President of the German and Austrian Alpine Club . Furthermore, he was one of the leading people in the national movement in Tyrol and at times also chairman of the Pan-German Association .

Carl Ipsen had three daughters and two sons, he was the father of the sociologist Gunther Ipsen . A choir was named after Carl Ipsen, which was founded in 2009 on the occasion of the burial of body donations in Münster.

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  1. Obituary  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / resources.metapress.com  
  2. Medi Campus
  3. Joseph Trausch u. A., Writer's Lexicon of the Transylvanian Germans. Bio-bibliographical manual for science, poetry and journalism: Writer's Lexicon of the Transylvanian Germans , Vol. 7, HJ. BD VII, Böhlau 2000, ISBN 978-3412125998 , p. 328
  4. ^ Report on the founding of the choir