Carl Strempel

Carl Strempel ( Josef Kriehuber , 1841)

Johannes Carl Friedrich Strempel , also Johannes Karl Friedrich Strempel (born August 20, 1800 in Bössow , † August 29, 1872 in Ludwigslust ) was a German ophthalmologist. He founded the Rostock University Hospital. He was also interested in botany, his botanical author abbreviation is " Strempel ."

Life

Carl Strempel was born as the son of Pastor Gabriel Strempel (1757–1831) and his wife Magdalene Maria, geb. Gröning (1759–1842), a merchant's daughter from Wismar. He studied natural sciences and medicine at the University of Rostock and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In Berlin he had been a member of Corps Vandalia I since 1819. In 1822 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD .

After practicing in Schwerin for a short time , he moved to Rostock in 1825 . Excellent practice and qualified as a professor , he started his academic career as a private lecturer . As early as Easter 1826, the city council of Rostock gave him a full professorship , thus opening up an extended sphere of activity for him; this still expanded when in 1827 the patronage of the university entirely on the sovereign, Grand Duke I. Friedrich Franz , passed.

The university lacked everything that could serve to promote and apply scientific and medical research. A small scientific collection and a very modest anatomical institute were all; not even a hospital was available to the university, as the city itself had only a small hospital for the poor, unsuitable for clinical purposes. It is Strempel's credit for tirelessly pointing out the need for special institutes. In Rostock he owed not only almost all the medical university facilities, but also the natural history museum, a chemical laboratory and the observatory .

When he was recovering from an autopsy injury in Baden near Vienna in 1841 , he performed some operations in Vienna that were hitherto unknown there. His friend Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach and other colleagues wanted to keep him in Vienna; but also at the request of Grand Duke Paul Friedrich (Mecklenburg) he returned to Rostock. In favor of his clinical work, he gave up the lucrative city practice. In 1842 he also became a member of the Corps Vandalia Rostock .

Strempel's tombstone is now in Rostock's Lindenpark

As he got older he stepped down from the management of the clinics and left them to younger colleagues whom he had chosen, who were also corps students : in 1855 he handed over the medical clinic to Theodor Thierfelder , and in 1861 the surgical clinic to Gustav Simon .

Quite withdrawn, he died shortly after the death of his wife Julie Elisabeth, b. Röper, and his 50th anniversary as a doctor, and was buried in the cemetery in Bentwisch . His gravestone was later moved to Rostock.

His daughter Elisabeth Strempel became known as a portrait painter. The Rostock professor of natural history and botany Johannes Röper was his brother-in-law.

Honors

Senior Medical Councilor (1838)
Honorary member of the Corps Vandalia Rostock
Strempel-Strasse in the Hansaviertel (Rostock)

literature

August Blanck : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present . Schwerin 1874, p. 151 (with Strempel's list of publications); 1901
Adolf Hofmeister : Strempel, Johann Karl Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 573-575.
Julius Uffelmann : Hygienic topography of the city of Rostock . Rostock 1889, p. 138 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Author entry and list of the described plant names for Carl Strempel at the IPNI
^ Enrollment of Carl Friedrich Strempel in the Rostock matriculation portal
↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 17/31.
↑ Dissertation: Filicum Berolinensium synopsis .
^ Reception by Carl Friedrich Strempel in the Rostock matriculation portal
↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 122/371.
↑ Strempel's grave is not in Rostock, but in the Bentwisch cemetery , whereby only the gravestone base was moved to the Rostock Lindenpark in 1988. The tombstone has been part of the newly built lapidarium in Lindenpark since 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Strempel, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Strempel, Karl; Strempel, Johann Carl Friedrich (full name); Strempel, Johann Karl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ophthalmologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boessow
DATE OF DEATH	August 29, 1872
Place of death	Ludwigslust

[1] Author entry and list of the described plant names for Carl Strempel at the IPNI

[2] Enrollment of Carl Friedrich Strempel in the Rostock matriculation portal

[3] Kösener corps lists 1910, 17/31.

[4] Dissertation: Filicum Berolinensium synopsis .

[5] Reception by Carl Friedrich Strempel in the Rostock matriculation portal

[6] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 122/371.

[7] Strempel's grave is not in Rostock, but in the Bentwisch cemetery , whereby only the gravestone base was moved to the Rostock Lindenpark in 1988. The tombstone has been part of the newly built lapidarium in Lindenpark since 2017 .