Carl Wilhelm Wutzer

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Carl Wilhelm Wutzer ( Adolf Hohneck , 1841)

Carl Wilhelm Wutzer (born March 17, 1789 in Berlin , † September 19, 1863 in Bonn ) was a German military doctor , surgeon and university professor .

Life

Wutzer's father was a surgeon and pool inspector in Freienwalde . He received his education at the local Progymnasium and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium (Berlin) . In 1804 he was accepted into the Pépinière . Carl Ludwig Willdenow inspired him for botany . Johann Gottlieb Walter and Christoph Knape (1747–1831) awakened his affinity for anatomy . Prussia's defeat in the battle of Jena and Auerstedt forced Wutzer to interrupt his studies. In 1807 he became a junior physician at the Charité . As a company surgeon in the Prussian Army , he was in the Kolberg , Potsdam and Berlin garrisons from 1808 . The head of the military health system , Johann Goercke , noticed him and brought him to the Pépinière in 1812 as senior physician and teacher.

Wars of Liberation

After the wars of liberation broke out , Wutzer was senior physician in several hospitals in Saxony , Silesia and Bohemia . In Bunzlau he fell ill with typhus . After his recovery he accompanied the troops via Koblenz to Amiens . From there he visited Paris , which was then a center of medical care and research. In October 1814 he returned to Berlin with the troops.

The Medical Faculty of the University of Erfurt appointed him on January 12, 1814 Dr. med. et chir. Soon afterwards promoted to chief surgeon and staff surgeon, he was a repetiteur and an independent teacher. He used his stay in Berlin to attend lectures by the internist Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland and the Prussian general surgeon Christian Ludwig Mursinna at the new Berlin university . With Karl Asmund Rudolphi and Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein he carried out comparative anatomical studies. In the winter of 1815/16 he passed the medical state examination. In 1817 he completed his habilitation. As a private lecturer , he went on a study trip to prestigious universities in Germany, France, Italy and England at the expense of the Prussian state government.

When his father died and his mother remained penniless, Wutzer had to give up his academic career for the time being and become a soldier. He came to Wesel and Torgau as a regimental doctor with the 20th Infantry Regiment .

Muenster

In 1821 he was transferred to the 13th Infantry Regiment in Münster . Three years earlier, Prussia had closed the university there. In order to remedy the acute shortage of military and civil surgeons and to curtail the still widespread bathing system, Friedrich Wilhelm III ordered. by cabinet order in 1821 to set up a medical and surgical training institute in Münster. Wutzer was appointed director and first teacher and found his way back to teaching . He had read anatomy, physiology, and surgery, and gave clinical lessons. He had to hold dissection and operation exercises privately because the facility did not initially have a clinic. In 1825 he was able to set up a polyclinic in the former Poor Clare Monastery (Stubengasse 4). A clinic with twelve beds followed in 1829. Confined spaces and the lack of trained nursing staff made the work difficult. Nevertheless, the reputation grew among the population and in the academic world. In 1830 he reported on Münster's anatomical institute and its collections.

As a highly educated man with diverse interests, Wutzer was famous for his piano and violoncello playing. For years he was in charge of the Münster song board. He found it difficult to answer the call to Halle (Saale) :

"I don't think I'll walk on roses in Halle. Zondi will blow at me from the right and Mr. Blasius from the left, and that I should avoid the personal odiosi that seem to be the order of the day there, I suppose hardly wait. "

- CW Wutzer

Hall

The Prussian minister of culture, Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein , appointed Wutzer to the Friedrichs University in Halle in May 1830 . As professor of surgery and director of the surgical clinic, Wutzer succeeded Karl August Weinhold .

The 1817 merger of the Halle and Wittenberg University to form the Kgl. United Friedrichs-Universität Halle-Wittenberg had meant that the number of students had grown from 676 to 1,161 in 23 years. This made the university one of the largest in Germany; However, quarrels between members of the medical faculty reduced their reputation. The disputes between Peter Krukenberg and Johann Friedrich Meckel d. J. was not up to Wutzer. Already in 1831 he accepted the call to the Rhine Province with a light heart .

Bonn

At the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität he took over the surgical clinic that had been headed by Philipp Franz von Walther . For the academic year 1836/37 he was elected rector . From 1850 ill Wutzer in both eyes on cataract . In 1854/55 he was rector again. Then he said goodbye.

Before becoming completely blind, he traveled to the lower Danube region and part of western Asia in 1856 . In 1860 he published the two-volume travelogue. With colleagues from Bonn he published the organ for the entire medical science (the Lower Rhine Society) and the Rheinische monthly for practical doctors . On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of service, he was given the character Geh in 1858 . Senior Medical Council. He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

The two sons from their first marriage in 1833 died as small children. Widower since 1841, Wutzer married for the second time in 1845. The marriage resulted in two daughters. His mother died in 1850. Wutzer died at the age of 74 and was buried in the old cemetery in Bonn .

plant

In 1838 Wutzer published the translation of a Dutch book on ophthalmology . He developed new methods of treating inguinal hernias and vesicovaginal fistulas . His Bonn publications were compiled by Erich von Redwitz in 1957 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A forgotten Berlin botanist: Karl Wilhelm Wutzer (1938)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Wenzel (2011)
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: De corporis humani gangliorum fabrica atque usu .
  4. ^ Wutzer, Karl Wilhelm: Report on the condition of the anatomical institute in Münster in 1830, together with a description of the collection of specimens available at the same .
  5. ↑ CW Wutzer: Report on the medical-surgical clinic in Münster for the period from spring 1825 to 1830 .
  6. ↑ CW Wutzer: About the purposes of the medical-surgical educational institutions of the Prussian state in general and the services of the institution in Münster in particular. A speech . Munster 1830.
  7. ↑ a b Rector's speeches (HKM)
  8. ↑ CW Wutzer: Peace in contrast to war. A speech . Bonn 1855.
  9. ^ CW Wutzer: Journey to the Orient of Europe and a part of West Asia to investigate the soil and its products, the climate of salubrity conditions and prevailing diseases . Bädeker, Elberfeld 1860–1861.
  10. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
  11. ^ WorldCat
  12. ↑ Dublin Hospital Gazette, vol. 5
  13. ↑ Erich Frhr. v. Redwitz, Alfred Gütgemann : The chair for surgery at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1818-1953) . University of Bonn 1957.
personal data
SURNAME Wutzer, Carl Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wutzer, Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military doctor, surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1863
Place of death Bonn