Carl Jakob Christian Adolf Gerhardt

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Carl Gerhardt

Carl Jakob Christian Adolf Gerhardt (born May 5, 1833 in Speyer ; † July 21, 1902 in Gamburg ) was a German internist .

Life

Carl Gerhardt's father was the high school professor Abraham Gerhardt (1796–1872), son of the brewer Clemens; his mother was Clementine, born in 1813, daughter of the book printer Jakob Christian Kolb and sister of the Bavarian MP Georg Friedrich Kolb.

Gerhardt studied medicine at the University of Würzburg from 1850 and received his doctorate in August 1856 with the thesis Contribution to the teaching of acquired pulmonary atelectasis . Then he was assistant to Heinrich von Bamberger and to his doctoral supervisor Franz von Rinecker in the medical outpatient clinic in Würzburg . and from 1858 worked under Wilhelm Griesinger in Tübingen . In March 1860 Gerhardt completed his habilitation with the work Der Stand des Diaphragmas as a lecturer at the University of Würzburg, received an extraordinary professorship in medicine at the University of Jena on November 23, 1861 and became the provisional director of the medical university clinic there. On April 1, 1862 he became a full professor of pathology and therapy in Jena, connected with it he became director of the medical university clinic and polyclinic.

He received the title of Hofrat von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach and took part in the organizational tasks of the Salana as rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semester of 1867 . In the winter semester of 1872/73 he moved to the University of Würzburg as a professor of medicine and thus to the Juliusspital there , where he became the director of the medical clinic and continued the children's clinic as the successor to Franz von Rinecker . His assistants at that time included Friedrich von Müller and Otto Seifert , who at that time, prompted by Gerhardt, began to write their later standard work on medical-clinical diagnostics, the "Müller-Seifert". In 1885 he succeeded Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs in Berlin and founded the 2nd Medical Clinic at the Charité. In 1888/89 he was the rector of the university. He took over from Frerichs as assistant to Paul Ehrlich , who however felt restricted in his freedom of research under Gerhardt, did not get along with him and finally reported sick in 1888. Gerhardt's son Dietrich was also a well-known doctor.

Gerhardt wrote textbooks such as the Handbook of Teething and is considered one of the founders of pediatrics . He made lasting contributions to the introduction and design of physical and chemical diagnostics . In 1865 he introduced the ferric chloride sample as quantitative evidence of acetoacetic acid in urine, the so-called Gerhardt sample . Gerhardt's sound change, also named after him, describes the change in percussion sound over caverns in the lungs. He was instrumental in the spread of laryngoscopy and founded the theory of larynx paralysis . In March 1887 he diagnosed the German Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm with cancer of the larynx . He also stood up for the fight against tuberculosis .

Gerhardt was married to Wanda (1841–1903), daughter of the government councilor Gustav von Barby. The marriage had seven children, among them Dietrich and Ulrich . His daughter Clema married the British diplomat Eyre Crowe in 1903 .

On July 23, 1886 Gerhardt was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts (selection)

  • The larynx croup. Tubingen 1859.
  • The stand of the diaphragm. Tübingen 1860 ( online )
  • Teething textbook. Tübingen 1861 ( online )
  • Progr. De situ et magnitudine cordis gravidarum. Jena 1862 ( online )
  • Studies and observations on vocal cord paralysis. Virchow's Archives for Pathological Anatomy and Physiology and for Clinical Medicine, Berlin, 1863, 27: 68–69, 296–321
  • Textbook of Auscultation and Percussion. Tuebingen 1866
  • Handbook of homeopathy: using external and personal experience according to the latest scientific standpoint . - 4th edition - Leipzig: Schwabe, 1886. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • About erythromelalgia . Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift, 1892; 29: 1125
  • Handbook of Teething . Tübingen, H. Laupp, 1882, 1887

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Gerhardt: On the biography and two unknown portraits of Carl Gerhardt (1833–1902). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 17, 1998, pp. 539-548; here: p. 539.
  2. ^ Joachim Gerlach: Carl and Dietrich Gerhardt. Contributions to the Würzburg medical history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 4, 1986, pp. 105-134; here: p. 110.
  3. ^ Gundolf Keil : 150 years of the University Children's Hospital in Würzburg. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 21, 2002, pp. 37-42; here: p. 41.
  4. Friedrich Müller : From the foreword to the forty-ninth to fifty-fourth edition. (Munich, October 1941), and Otto Seifert: Foreword to the first edition. (Würzburg and Berlin, April 1886). In: Friedrich Müller, Otto Seifert: Pocket book of medical-clinical diagnostics. JF Bergmann , Wiesbaden 1886; 50th edition 1941; from 1942 (55th edition) to 1966 (69th edition) ed. by Hans Kress von Kressenstein . Published by JF Bergmann, Munich 1966, p. IV f.
  5. Axel C. Hüntelmann: Paul Ehrlich: Life, Research, Economics, Networks , Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0867-1 , pp. 73f.
  6. Joachim Gerlach (1986), pp. 114-116.
  7. Joachim Gerlach (1986), pp. 119-134.

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