Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich
Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich (born August 4, 1815 in Sulz am Neckar , † September 25, 1877 in Leipzig ) was a German internist and medical historian . He was a professor in Tübingen and Leipzig and is considered a co-founder of physiological medicine and constitutional therapy .
Life
Wunderlich attended grammar school in Stuttgart ; It was there that the friendship with Wilhelm Griesinger and Wilhelm Roser began . In 1833 he took up his medical studies in Tübingen and became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Tübingen. In 1837 he completed the Rigorosum and in 1838 he was at the University of Tübingen with the work The Nosology of Typhus. An illumination of the most important views on the same for Dr. med. PhD .
From 1837 to 1838 he went on a teaching trip to Paris and then became an assistant at the Katharinen Hospital in Stuttgart. In 1840 he completed his habilitation as an internist in Tübingen. After completing his doctorate, he stayed in Paris again and then gave lectures for military doctors in Stuttgart in the winter semester of 1839/40. He then went to Vienna to study in the autumn of 1840 .
From 1842 to 1859 he edited the archive of physiological medicine together with Wilhelm Roser and Wilhelm Griesinger . 1840–1843 he was a private lecturer in medical clinic at the University of Tübingen.
In 1843 he was appointed associate professor and in 1846 became full professor and director of the medical clinic.
In 1850 he moved to Leipzig, where he became professor and clinical director of the St. Jacobshospital (Leipzig) , the university clinic. According to von Thierschs, the old Jakobshospital was one of the worst hospitals he had seen. Here, deaths from illnesses that were probably caused by hospital germs increased. From 1866 on, Wunderlich became a decisive proponent of an independent "university insane clinic". From 1871 he was responsible for the building and organization program in the commission of the medical faculty. The upswing of the Leipzig Medical Faculty was primarily associated with the work of Wunderlich, Ludwig and Carl Thiersch (1822–1895). In cooperation with the Mayor of Leipzig, Koch, they achieved the construction of a new hospital as a facility for the city and the university. In 1871 the St. Jakob Municipal Hospital was opened in Leipzig.
Wunderlich held lectures on "Pathology and Therapy of Diseases of the Nervous System" and on psychiatry , in which he represented the views of Wilhelm Griesinger. Wunderlich was the teacher of Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum and Emil Kraepelin, among others . In addition to his teaching activities, he ran a large and recognized private practice . He was committed to the establishment of the “Leipzig Clinical Quarter” on Liebigstrasse.
Wunderlich died on September 25, 1877 in Leipzig.
Wunderlich became one of the most important medical clinicians and teachers of the 19th century, and introduced clinical lessons in Leipzig, which were physiologically oriented, diagnostically methodologically strict and always verifiable. He was responsible for the introduction of empirical patient observations such as B. for the clinical thermometer and the registration of the temperature curve in medicine. On the basis of the examination of thousands of patients, he set the normal temperature in the human body at 37 ° C in his work via the inherent heat (see below).
In his honor, one of the cardiological stations in the medical department of the Heidelberg University Clinic (Ludolf Krehl Clinic) is named after Wunderlich. The principle of medical ethics , mostly attributed to Ludolf von Krehl , of treating people and not diseases , actually goes back to Wunderlich, according to Erwin Liek . Krehl only formulated the principle more specifically and said that the doctor had to treat sick people .
Works
- Vienna and Paris. A contribution to the history and assessment of current medicine in Germany and France . Published by Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart, 1841.
- Attempt at a pathological physiology of the blood . Published by Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1845
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Manual of Pathology and Therapy . Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1849-1852.
- First volume . Second edition. Published by Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1852
- Second volume . Second edition. Published by Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1853
- Third volume . Second edition. Published by Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1854
- Fourth volume . Second edition. Published by Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1856
- History of medicine: lectures given in Leipzig in the summer semester of 1858 . Published by Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1859
- The behavior of intrinsic heat in diseases . Second edition. Published by Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1870, first printed in Leipzig 1868.
- Cholera regulation: presented to the health authorities, doctors and the public . With Wilhelm Griesinger and Max von Pettenkofer. Second edition. Published by Oldenbourg, München 1867
- The diagnosis of typhus . Published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1871
literature
- Georg Korn: Wunderlich, Karl Reinhold August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 313 f.
- Wolfgang HT Schürmann: Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich and "Physiological Medicine" . Dissertation, Hannover Medical School, 1989
Web links
- Works by and about Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich in the German Digital Library
- Overview of the lectures of Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1850 to winter semester 1877)
- Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Assmann : Wappen der Guestphalia Tübingen in: Einst und Jetzt Volume 42 (1997), p. 159 with further references.
- ↑ For the so-called BTPS conditions in physiology, see standard conditions
- ↑ Erwin Liek: The doctor and his mission . JF Lehmanns-Verlag, Munich 1928, p. 27
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wunderlich, Carl Reinhold August |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wunderlich, Karl Reinhold August |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German internist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1815 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sulz am Neckar |
DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1877 |
Place of death | Leipzig |