Caspar Kirchhoffer

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Caspar Kirchhoffer (also: Caspar Kirchhofer , Kaspar Kirchhoff ; * May 24, 1812 in Uetersen ; † 1885 ) was a German doctor and author .

Life

Kirchhoffer was the son of a master dyer of the same name from St. Gallen (Switzerland) and his wife born. Holtz from Altona. He was taught by the rector and theologian Andreas Andresen († 1849), brother of Karl Andresen , who came from Flensburg at the Uetersener Stiftsschule and later attended the grammar school in Altona from Easter 1831 to Easter 1832 as a scholarship holder . Kirchhoffer then studied medicine in Copenhagen and later moved to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , where he received his PhD in 1836. med. & chm was awarded a doctorate . Kirchhoffer established himself as a doctor in Uetersen until 1837 and then visited Berlin , Würzburg and, in the winter of 1838, Heidelberg . Visits to Strasbourg and Zurich followed in the spring of 1839, and in the autumn of the same year Kirchhoffer returned to Kiel, where he lived for half a year. From May 1839 Kirchhoffer settled as a doctor in Altona and was at the same time pediatrician and gynecologist of the female association for poor and sick care in Altona, which later became the children's hospital in Altona.

As an author, Kirchhoffer has written several books and essays, as well as essays in various specialist journals.

Works (selection)

  • Hemipiegia et convulsiones epilepticae voltaismi ope sanatae (Kiel 1831).
  • Natural system of the birth doctrine . (Kiel and Hamburg, (Schubert & Co.) 1838 and 1842).
  • Material for further considerations about the medicinal constitution of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein . (Altona, Aue, 1839).
  • Rec. About dr. Franz Karl Naegele 's doctrine of the mechanism of birth in Pfaifs Mittheilungen VI
  • Various articles, advertisements and reviews in the Neue Zeitschrift für Geburtskunde among others in volume 19

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  • Eduard Alberti : Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 , CBS von Maark, Kiel 1867, p. 451, no. 1053 ( digitized version )
  • Hans Ferdinand Bubbe : Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen . Part II. Heydorn, Uetersen 1932, in particular our school system , pp. 181–183 and poor, welfare and health services , pp. 208–227
  • Our schools , in: Stadt Uetersen (ed.), Lothar Mosler (editor): 750 years of Uetersen - 1234–1984 . CDC Heydorns, Uetersen 1984
  • Hellmuth Witt, Ullrich Kröger and others: 50 years of the Royal Prussian Teachers' Seminar. 60 years of the Ludwig Meyn School in Uetersen . CDC Heydorns, Uetersen 1985, pp. 73-75

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ exact dates: April 11, 1831-13. April 1832, entry in the register: [noun] Caspar Kirchhofer / [Patria = place of birth, origin] Uetersen / [Parentes] Caspar Kirchhofer, Tinctor / [Aetas = date of birth] die IX a [nte] Cal [endas] Jun [ias] 1812 (= born May 24, 1812) / [Accessus] the XI Aprilis 1831 / [Abitus] Legitimate valedixit iuvenis amabilis d [ie] April 13 [ilis] 1832, Schroed [eriani] mai [oris] parte dimidia ornatus stipendii. , according to: Association for Hamburg History (ed.): The register of the Christianeum in Altona 1738-1850 . Edited by Bernd Elsner. Contributions to the history of Hamburg, Volume 54. Hamburg 1998; P. 200: entry 960
personal data
SURNAME Kirchhoffer, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirchhoff, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, doctor and gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Uetersen
DATE OF DEATH 1885