Christian Joachim Carstens

Christian Joachim Carstens (born September 15, 1781 in Lübeck ; † March 21, 1814 there ) was a German doctor.

Life

Christian Joachim Carstens was the younger son of the procurator at the Lübeck lower court Christian Nicolaus Carstens (1736–1819) and grandson of the senior pastor and Meno Nicolaus Carstens . He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and studied human medicine at the University of Jena . In 1803, at the age of 22, he received an inaugural dissertation on transfusions chaired by Justus Christian Loder as Dr. med. PhD. He returned to Lübeck and became a city midwifery teacher and doctor for the poor.

The transfusion instrument he developed and his knowledge helped care for the wounded after the Battle of Lübeck in 1806.

He was a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , where he gave lectures on popular medicine, and co-founded the Medical Association of Lübeck .

In 1810 he presented a newly developed birthing chair .

A similar burden as in 1806 arose for the Lübeck doctors in 1814, when Lübeck took in the many Hamburgers that Marshal Davoust had locked out of the Hamburg Fortress. Carstens fell ill with hospital fever and died at the age of 33.

Fonts

• Dissertatio inauguralis medica de sanguinis transfusione. Jena 1803
• Comments on the source near Bad Bramstedt . 1809

literature

• Rüdiger Kurowski: Medical lectures in the Lübeck Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities 1789-1839: a patriotic society during the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1995 ISBN 3-7950-0463-2 , p. 130
• Christine Loytved: Midwives and their teachers: turning points in training and office Lübeck midwives (173-1850). Osnabrück: Rasch 2002 (Women's Health; Vol. 2), zugl .: Osnabrück, Univ., Diss., 2001 ISBN 3-935326-76-9