Carl Maria Finkelnburg
Carl Maria Ferdinand Finkelnburg (born June 17, 1832 in Marialinden , † May 11, 1896 in Godesberg ) was a German medic and hygienist.
His father Josef Wilhelm Finkelnburg was mayor of Overath and Rösrath, one of his brothers was the US politician and lawyer Gustavus A. Finkelnburg , one of his sons was the physician Rudolf Finkelnburg (1870–1950).
Career
He studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn, Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. He received his doctorate in Berlin in 1853. For the next two years he served as a military doctor in the British Army. After the Crimean War he worked for a while as an assistant doctor at the St. Thomas Clinic in London. From 1857 to 1861 he worked as a psychiatrist at the Provincial Sanatorium in Siegburg. In 1862 he completed his habilitation in Bonn in the field of psychiatry. From 1872 to 1892 he was professor of hygiene at the University of Bonn.
He is buried in the castle cemetery in Bonn-Bad Godesberg (hereditary burial of the Finkelnburg family).
Honors
In 1888 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
Karl-Finkelnburg-Strasse in Bonn-Bad Godesberg was named after him.
literature
- Julius Pagel : Finkelnburg, Karl Maria . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, Sp. 503–504 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Carl Maria Ferdinand Finkelnburg at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 25, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Finkelnburg, Carl Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Finkelnburg, Carl Maria Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician and hygienist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marialinden |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1896 |
| Place of death | Godesberg |