Carl Vogel (personal physician)

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Carl Vogel, chalk drawing by Johann Joseph Schmeller 1826

Carl Vogel (born April 21, 1798 in Dessau , † April 27, 1864 in Weimar ) was a German doctor who worked as a secret councilor and ducal personal physician in Weimar.

Life

Vogel came from Dessau. Away from school he took part in the wars of liberation as a volunteer . After graduation he began on October 26, 1816 Halle (Saale) , a medical school . In the spring of 1819 Vogel passed the exams. The doctorate followed in Halle on May 1, 1819. After a successful settlement in Liegnitz , Carl Vogel was appointed court physician and counselor to Grand Duke Carl August in Weimar in July 1826 . In 1827 Carl Vogel received the title of personal physician. After Carl August's death, Vogel also became the personal physician of his successor, Carl Friedrich . From 1826, Carl Vogel also looked after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a general practitioner until his death in 1832. Goethe expressed his appreciation for Vogel several times: “Dr. Vogel is clear, open and cheerful, he knows his trade, and everything will go well! ”This is how Johann Peter Eckermann wrote in his conversations with Goethe from a long conversation with Goethe on January 24th, 1830:“ Goethe then spoke about his Health and praised himself happy to be constantly in perfect health. >> That I am doing so well now, << he said, >> I owe Vogel; without him I would have left long ago. Vogel is born to see a doctor and one in general of the most ingenious people I have ever thought of. But let's not say how good he is so that he won't be taken from us. << "

Carl Vogel supported Goethe as an assistant in the administration of the Weimar Institutes for Art and Science and the University of Jena . In 1833, Carl Vogel published a lengthy article on Goethe's medical history in Hufeland's journal "Journal of Practical Healing Art", to which Hufeland added a personal post. Goethe's last words “More Light” are quoted for the first time in this publication, even if Carl Vogel was not present in the death room at the moment of Goethe's death. In 1835 Vogel was awarded the title of a secret councilor. As the chief medical officer, Carl Vogel was in charge of the duchy's medical system. He became a member of numerous domestic and foreign specialist societies and headed the widows 'and orphans' fund of the Duchy's medical profession. Until his death, Vogel published specialist medical literature and other texts on Goethe. Most recently, in 1863, he published Goethe's correspondence with Duke Carl August. Councilor Carl Vogel died of a stroke on April 27, 1864 in Weimar.

Only one portrait drawing by Carl Vogel has survived. It is a chalk drawing that Goethe commissioned from Johann Joseph Schmeller in 1826 .

Fonts

  • Basic principles of medical practice in their entirety , Jena, Friedrich Frommann, 1832.
  • Goethe's last illness, described and, along with some other remarks about it, communicated by Dr. Carl Vogel, Grand Duke. Saxon court councilor and personal physician to Weimar, together with a postscript by CW Hufeland in: Journal der Praxis Heilkunde, Ed. Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland , born 1833, pp. 3–33.
  • Goethe in official circumstances , Jena, Friedrich Frommann, 1834.
  • The state medical procedure for doctors, surgeons, pharmacists, veterinarians and for legal scholars, presented theoretically and practically; together with an appendix containing forms for state medical business documents , Jena, Friedrich Frommann, 1836.
  • A curious case of individually fatal injury. Communicated by Dr. C. Vogel, Großh. Saxon. Hofr. and personal physician to Weimar , Wschr. total Heilk., 1834/36, Berlin, August Hirschwald, 1836, pp. 569-584
  • The Grossh. Saxon pension and support institution for widows and orphans of medicinal people. Notified v. Dr. Bird, go. Court councilor and personal physician to Weimar, director of the institution mentioned , Wschr. total Heilk., 1840/20, Berlin, August Hirschwald, 1840, pp. 313–328.
  • The medical police science, presented theoretically and practically, etc. , Jena, 1853.
  • Historical pictures , Leipzig, JD Hinrichs'schen Buchhandlung, 1854.
  • Correspondence between Grand Duke Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach and Goethe from 1775 to 1828 , Ed. Carl Vogel, Weimar, 1863.

literature

  • Rudolf Payer-Thurn: Goethe a picture book , Günther Schulz Verlag, Leipzig, Fig. 159, text p. 20
  • Wolfgang Kaiser, Arina Volker: The career of the Goethe doctor Carl Vogel in: The development of medical organization and pharmacy based on the territorial example of Anhalt, issue 54, Martin Luther University, 1987, p. 258ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Bergemann (ed.): Eckermann Talks with Goethe in the last years of his life (= Insel Taschenbuch 500), 11th edition Berlin 2015, p. 365.
  2. ↑ Goethe’s Last Illness , Reprint, E. Merck AG, Darmstadt, 1961
  3. ^ Adelheid von Schorn: Das nachklassische Weimar , G. Kiepenheuer, 1911, p. 165.
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, Goethe's last family doctor
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1864
Place of death Weimar