Carsten Harms

Carsten Harms (* March 7, 1830 in Witzwort ; † March 7, 1897 in Niebüll ) was a German veterinarian .

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Carsten Harms was a son of the farmer Hans Harms (1803-1834) and his wife Anna Maria, née Pauls, widowed Adolf. He attended a village school and began training in the Adler pharmacy in Friedrichstadt in 1846 . He learned Greek and Latin and worked as an apprentice in pharmacies in Bredstedt and Süderstapel . In 1851 he began studying veterinary medicine in Hanover . He finished his studies with special permission due to good performance in the fall of 1854 with the grade "good". With the graduation he was allowed to take on tasks in forensics and for the police. He also worked in Hanover as a district veterinarian; a job that didn't exist before.

Harms had practices on Nordstrand and in Friedrichstadt until 1857 . In the same year he assisted Ernst Friedrich Gurlt and the pathologist Andreas Christian Gerlach at the veterinary school in Berlin . In the spring of 1858 he briefly studied at the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort . In the summer of 1858 he received a call as an interim teacher at the Hanover Veterinary School . On October 12, 1858, he married the farmer's daughter Suseline Catharine Hansen (1836–1903) on Nordstrand, with whom he had no children. Instead, the couple adopted Emma Frank from Friedrichstadt.

Harms stayed at the school in Hanover until April 1, 1859, when Andreas Christian Gerlach took over the post of director from the late Johann Heinrich Friedrich Günther . He then worked as a practical veterinarian in Glückstadt . On 11 May 1862 he was at the University of Giessen Dr. med in Medicina et Chirurgica veterinaria. In 1863 he received a new call from the Hanoverian Veterinary School. Here he ran the outpatient clinic and taught as the third teacher. In his lectures he talked about dietetics, medicine teachers, general therapy and animal breeding. For the 100th anniversary of the educational institution, he was given a full professorship in 1878.

Harms wanted a very experienced teacher who knew how to guide his students practically. He dealt in particular with buiatric and obstetrics, especially in the field of treating horses. Harms developed basic knowledge and wrote the "textbook of veterinary obstetrics", which was his main work. The book, which was published several times, was regarded as leading specialist literature until after the First World War .

Harms fell out at the veterinary school with Andreas Christian Gerlach, the leading veterinarian in Prussia at the time. For this reason he left the university in 1883 and moved to Friedrichstadt. He later lived in Flensburg and Niebüll. During this time he practiced little, but wrote mostly.

literature

• D. Korth: Harms, Carsten . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 157–158

Web links

• Biographical data on the homepage of the Free University of Berlin, Department of Veterinary Medicine