Carl Wenzel (medic, 1820)

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Carl August Maria Katharina Wenzel (born September 23, 1820 in Mainz ; † February 3, 1894 there ) was a German physician .

Life

Carl Wenzel, son of the board of directors and inspector of Rhine shipping Christian Ferdinand Wenzel (* November 7th, 1777 in Steinheim; † August 25th, 1852 in Mainz) and his wife Barbara, b. Bembé (* November 12, 1792 in Mainz, ∞ January 9, 1816), studied medicine at the University of Giessen from 1839 to 1842 . In 1840 he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Gießen . After completing your studies with a doctorate to become a Dr. med. in 1843 he went on a long study trip to Vienna, Prague, Berlin and Paris. In 1845 he settled as a doctor in Mainz, where he "soon became one of the most respected and most sought-after doctors" who pursued his "grueling occupation with the most painful conscientiousness"; led, his loyalty to duty was the same. "

Honorary positions

In 1852 Carl Wenzel was one of the founders of the Central Museum for Germanic and Roman Antiquities , which later became the Roman-Germanic Central Museum . Subsequently, he was president of the local committee of the Central Museum. Wenzel also played a key role in founding the cathedral building association. From 1853 to 1861 he was a director on the board of the Rheinische Naturforschende Gesellschaft . Wenzel was together with the Mainz doctors Karl Cuny and Arnold Helwig on the board of the Mainz aid association for nursing and supporting soldiers in the field . Wenzel was a member of the city council until 1872 - in 1854 he had already been elected to the local council. His diverse involvement in the cultural, social and political area found a comprehensive appreciation in the obituary (Allgemeine Zeitung Munich, supplement 55, March 7, 1894, pp. 1-4).

Awards

For his help in the explosion of the powder tower on November 18, 1857 Carl Wenzel was from Grand Duke Ludwig III. awarded the Order of Ludwig by Hesse . He was appointed to the Secret Medicinal Council in 1890.

Library

The heirs of Carl Wenzel bequeathed his library with more than 2000 books to the Mainz City Library in 1894. This was almost 45% of the total annual growth, as can be seen in the library's annual reports for 1894/95. They emphasize the importance of the gift encompassing all areas of knowledge and focus on valuable individual items, u. a. from the realm of the incunabula ; approx. 400 duplicates and obsolete works were eliminated. All of the specimens bear a donation bookplate made by the Mainz engraver Clemens Kissel and many additional provenance features such as stamps and handwritten ownership entries. In the course of the provenance indexing , which was guaranteed until 2017 , parts of Carl Wenzel's book collection were recorded. The result of a systematic examination of his preserved private library in the ensemble of the municipal collection, including the estate (NL 188) located in the Mainz city ​​archive , will appear in the Mainz magazine in 2022 . Carl's son was the linguist Heinrich Wenzel , from whose provenance the city library also has copies.

Fonts

  • Old experiences in the light of the new time and their views on the origin of diseases . Wiesbaden: Bergmann, 1893. XII, 144 pp.

literature

  • Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, Sp. 1835. ( Permalink )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Name according to the entry in the family register 12075 Mainz City Archives
  2. ↑ Birth register, registry office Mainz, No. 781/1820
  3. ↑ Death register StA Mainz, No. 171/1894
  4. ↑ Mainz City Archives , Wenzel family estate (NL 280); Family register for Barbara Bembé = FR 2806
  5. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910. 56, 279
  6. ^ Friedrich Karl Dienst: Dr. Karl Wenzel , Allgemeine Zeitung München, supplement 55, March 7, 1894, pp. 1–4, here: p. 1.
  7. ↑ Markus Würz: 175 years of the Rheinische Naturforschende Gesellschaft and 100 years of the Natural History Museum Mainz , 2009, p. 50 ( digitized version ; PDF; 1.7 MB)
  8. ↑ Stefan Grus: From the fortress to the first aid station. Mainz Voluntary Wound Care in the Franco-German War , in: Franz Dumont / Klaus-Dieter Fischer et al. (Ed.): Moguntia medica. Medical Mainz. From the Middle Ages to the 20th century . Wiesbaden 2002, pp. 357-367, here: p. 359.
  9. ↑ Mainz City Archives , holdings 72/195
  10. ↑ Annelen Ottermann: "an important, extremely grateful enrichment of the city library": the book estate of Geh. Medical Councilor Dr. Carl Wenzel.
  11. ^ Annelen Ottermann: Karl August Maria Katharina Wenzel. 1820–1894 and Heinrich Christian Ferdinand Wenzel 1855–1893. In: Where our books come from. Provenances of the Mainz City Library in the mirror of ex-libris. Mainz 2011, DNB 1011510502 , pp. 147–152 ( online , PDF; 4.6 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Wenceslaus, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wenzel, Carl August Maria Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1894
Place of death Mainz