Carl von Reyher

Carl Dietrich Christoph von Reyher

Carl Dietrich Christoph von Reyher (in Russian literature Karl Karlowitsch Reyer ( Russian Карл Карлович Рейер ); * 23 October ^July / 4 November  1846 ^greg. In Riga ; † 30 December 1890 ^jul. / 11 January  1891 ^greg. in St. Petersburg ) was a German-Baltic - Russian surgeon .

Life

Carl von Reyher, son of the clerk at the Livonian court court Karl Christopher von Reyher and the teacher Maria Helena Mathilde von Reyher born. Ulmann, visited the Russian Gouvernementsgymnasium with completion in 1865. He then studied medicine at the University of Tartu and received in 1870 his doctor - diploma . During his studies he already specialized in surgery and assisted Georg von Adelmann and Ernst von Bergmann in operations . He also assisted in operations in the Riga hospital. During his training, he made several trips abroad at government expense for study purposes. In England he got to know antiseptic surgery.

After completing his studies, Reyher attended the universities of Berlin , London , Edinburgh , Paris , Prague and others at his own expense . During the Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871 he worked in Prussian hospitals and became a field doctor in the Prussian IX. Army Corps . He was involved in the battles near Weißenburg , Wörth and Gravelotte . He worked in Mannheim and Nancy with Carl Wilhelm von Heine , who was in charge of a Württemberg field hospital. He was informed in 1873 at the University of Edinburgh in Joseph Lister and at the University of Halle in Richard von Volkmann on the antiseptic wound treatment.

In Dorpat , Reyher was Ernst von Bergmann's assistant in the surgical clinic of the University of Dorpat from 1871 and received his doctorate in medical sciences in 1872 with his dissertation on the pathology and therapy of cholera (13 blood transfusions) . In the same year he was briefly a doctor in the cholera department of the Riga military host hospital. In 1874 he became a private lecturer in surgery in Dorpat and in 1877 a state lecturer.

During the Serbian-Turkish War in 1876 he worked in a field hospital in Svilajnac . 1877–1878 the service in the Russo-Turkish War followed . He became a surgical adviser to the Caucasus Army and was there at the bombing of Kars . During this time, through his work in the Red Cross, he successfully brought antiseptic treatment to general use. At the International Medical Congress in 1881 he became a member of the Military Medicine Committee.

From 1878 Reyher was consultant surgeon of the Nikolai Military Hospital in St. Petersburg . In 1883 he became chief physician of the St. Petersburg Semyonovskoye Alexandrowskoye military hospital of the Semyonovskoye bodyguard regiment and a member of the military medical science committee. In addition, he ran other hospitals and military hospitals in St. Petersburg, set up first aid courses and gave gynecological courses. He was also a consultant to the Duchess of Edinburgh - surgeon interior -Schule. He attended the International Medical Congress in Washington, DC in 1887 and was an honorary member of the Medico-Surgical College of Philadelphia .

In 1890 Reyher was offered the chair of clinical surgery at the University of Kiev . However, he died shortly afterwards as a result of a hunting accident near St. Petersburg. He was buried in the German Lutheran Smolenskoye Cemetery on the Smolenka River in St. Petersburg.

Works

• About changes in the joints with constant rest (German. Zeitschr. F. Chir.)
• On the cartilages and synovial membranes of the joints (Journ. Of Anat. And Physiol.)
• About laryngostricture, its healing and the artificial larynx (negotiating d. Deutsch. Gesellsch. F. Chir.)
• Studies on the development of the extremities of humans and especially the joint surfaces (together with Wilhelm von Henke , Protocols of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna, III, 1874)
• Antiseptic and open wound treatment ( Langenbeck -Archiv, XIX)
• Hydrocölenschnitt (St. Petersb. Med. Wochenschr., 1875)
• For the treatment of pseudarthroses (St. Petersb. Med. Wochenschr., 1876)
• For laryngotomy and extirpation of the larynx (St. Petersb. Med. Wochenschr., 1876)
• Antiseptic wound treatment in war surgery (Collection of clinical lectures by Richard von Volkmann, No. 142–143)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Karl Reyher. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
2. ↑ Brockhaus-Efron : Рейер, Карл Карлович.

Web links

Commons : Carl Dietrich Christoph von Reyher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Karl Reyher. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital