Christoph Ullmann (doctor)

Christoph Ullmann , rarely also Georg Christoph Ullmann (born May 11, 1773 in Kassel , † January 18, 1849 in Marburg ) was a German professor of surgery and ophthalmology at the University of Marburg .

Life

Christoph Ullmann was born as the son of the later Marburg chief pensioner Johann Friedrich Ullmann from Hofgeismar and Marie Elisabeth Bode, daughter of the court major Johann Christoph Bode.

In 1797 he received permission to set up as a general practitioner in the Upper Principality of Hesse and opened a practice in Marburg. In 1804 he was employed as a bandage teacher at the University of Marburg and obliged to carry out "exercises on cadavers" under the direction of the professor of surgery. In the same year he was appointed associate professor of medicine for bandage theory, materia medica and eye diseases. In 1806 he became a full professor of anatomy and (until 1810) director of the Anatomical Institute and in 1815 a full professor of surgery including ophthalmology and director of the surgical clinic, and finally (until 1843) of the state hospital. He was the dean of the medical faculty in 1819, 1827, 1833, 1837, 1841 and 1845. In 1839 he was given the title of secret medical councilor.

Others

Christoph Ullmann is the brother of the mineralogist Johann Christoph Ullmann . Like him, he was a member of the Marburg Masonic Lodge Marc Aurel zum Flammenden Stern . In 1834 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Marburg "because of special services to the general welfare".

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• Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis . The academic teachers of Philipps University from 1527 to 1910. Ed. Franz Gundlach. Marburg 1927, p. 193 f.
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