Carl Thiem

Carl Thiem (born October 10, 1850 in Nikolschmiede , Sagan district , province of Silesia , † September 7, 1917 in Cottbus ) was a German surgeon , he is considered to be the co-founder of trauma surgery in Germany. He was also referred to by his contemporaries as the "father of trauma medicine".

Life

Thiem's grave

Carl Thiem was born the son of an organist and teacher. In 1898 he wrote the trend-setting “Handbook of Accident Diseases Based on Medical Experience”. He also had a good reputation beyond the city and state borders as a specialist in the field of traumatology . Today's Carl-Thiem-Klinikum Cottbus was named after him. It was opened on April 1, 1914 as the “United Urban and Thiemsche Heilanstalt”. The experiences from his private clinic on Mühlenstrasse (today's Wichernhaus) and the Medico-Mechanical Institute could be evaluated there. In addition, the Carl Thiem Medal is awarded today to deserving traumatologists. Thiem was a member of the Cottbus Masonic Lodge at the Well in the Desert and the Görlitz Masonic Lodge at the Dawn . His grave is in the Cottbus south cemetery .

Fonts

Handbook of accidental illnesses based on medical experience. Stuttgart 1898.

literature

Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, Sp. 1702–1703. ( Digitized version )
Hermann Christern (Ed.): German Biographical Yearbook. Transition Volume 2: 1917-1920. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart / Berlin 1928, p. 674. (with further references)
Isidor Fischer : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Volume 2, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1933.
Susanne Christ, Reimar Christ: Prof. Dr. Carl Thiem. A doctor who has rendered outstanding services to Cottbus. In: Past and present of the Cottbus district. (= Niederlausitzer Studien , No. 13.) Cottbus 1979, pp. 105–112. (with picture and further references)

Web links

Website of the Carl Thiem Clinic - History ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. the print of a Thiemes senior report for the Reich Insurance Office in: Collection of sources for the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , III. Department: Expansion and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904) , Volume 2, The revision of the accident insurance laws and the practice of accident insurance , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Darmstadt 2009, no. 110.

personal data
SURNAME	Thiem, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon, co-founder of trauma surgery in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH	October 10, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nikolschmiede , Sagan County, Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 1917
Place of death	cottbus

[1] Cf. the print of a Thiemes senior report for the Reich Insurance Office in: Collection of sources for the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , III. Department: Expansion and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904) , Volume 2, The revision of the accident insurance laws and the practice of accident insurance , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Darmstadt 2009, no. 110.