Christian Wilhelm Ludwig Abel
Christian Wilhelm Ludwig Abel (born October 20, 1826 in Quedlinburg ; † May 2, 1892 ) was a German military doctor .
Life
Abel studied from 1844 to 1848 at the Medical and Surgical Friedrich Wilhelm Institute at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . He served as an assistant doctor first in Halberstadt and then in Quedlinburg. Then he went back to Berlin as a senior physician at the Friedrich Wilhelm Institute. At the same time assistant to Heinrich Gottfried Grimm , the personal physician of Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , He came close to the king. In 1856 he became a medical officer at the Invalidenhaus Berlin and a teacher at the military gymnasium in Berlin. In 1860 he became a senior staff doctor in Frankfurt (Oder) .
Abel took part as a military doctor in all three wars of unification : in the German-Danish War in 1864 he was chief physician of a light field hospital, in the German War in 1866 field hospital director and in the Franco-German War in 1870/71 as field general doctor of an army corps. After the founding of the German Empire in 1874 he was first general doctor of the XV. in Strasbourg , then general physician of the II Army Corps in Stettin .
In 1860, together with Gottfried Friedrich Franz Loeffler, he founded the Prussian military medical newspaper, which only had three volumes.
literature
- Julius Pagel : Abel, Christian Wilhelm Ludwig . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, Col. 2–3 .
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SURNAME | Abel, Christian Wilhelm Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German military doctor |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1826 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Quedlinburg |
DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1892 |