Conrad Heinrich Fuchs

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Conrad Heinrich Fuchs (born December 7, 1803 in Bamberg , † December 2, 1855 in Göttingen ) was a German pathologist.

Life

Fuchs studied medicine at the Julius Maximilians University and became a member of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg in 1821 . From 1825 to 1829 he was an assistant doctor to Johann Lukas Schönlein at the Juliusspital . For further training, he visited clinics in France and Northern Italy . Since 1831 habilitated lecturer at the University of Würzburg, he became in 1831 an associate professor and in 1836 professor of pathology and director of the clinic. From 1831 he also taught medical history topics ( geographic nosology and history of epidemics ). According to Robert Herrlinger, Fuchs is one of the first representatives of a "historical pathology". When the professorship for pathology was withdrawn from him in 1838 and the professorship for pharmacology was transferred, he moved to the Georg August University of Göttingen in the Kingdom of Hanover as the successor to the ophthalmologist Karl Himly . There he initially headed the medical clinic alongside Johann Wilhelm Heinrich Conradi , and since 1843 alone. In 1843 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . He turned down several offers from other universities . For the academic years 1848/49 and 1852/53 he was elected Vice Rector . He represented natural history medicine and founded the pathological-anatomical collection of the University of Göttingen. Fuchs died shortly before his 52nd birthday as a result of fatty heart disease.

confusion

In autumn 2013 a mix-up was uncovered at the University of Göttingen: the brain preparations of the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß and the Göttingen physician Fuchs, which were more than 150 years old at the time , were exchanged - probably soon after they were taken. Both specimens were kept in jars with formaldehyde in the anatomical collection of the Göttingen University Clinic. The original Gauss brain was in the jar labeled “CH Fuchs”, and the Fuchs brain was labeled “CF Gauss”. This means that the previous research results on Gauss's brain are also obsolete. The scientist Renate Schweizer looked again at the specimens because of the MRT images made of the supposed brain of Gauss , which showed a rare division of the central furrow into two parts, and discovered that this abnormality was missing in drawings made shortly after Gauss death.

Honors

Fonts

  • De lepra arabum. Dissertation, Würzburg 1831
  • The sacred fire in the Middle Ages. A contribution to the history of the epidemics. In: JFC Hecker: Scientific annals of all medicine. ("Heckers Annalen") 28 (Berlin, January 1834), pp. 1–81
  • The oldest writers on the lust epidemic in Germany from 1495 to 1410. [...] Göttingen 1843 ( digitized version )

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 137/41
  2. ↑ Robert Herrlinger: The development of medical history teaching at the Julius Maximilians University. Messages from the Georg Sticker Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Würzburg, Issue 1 (March 1957), pp. 1–8; P. 4
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 87.
  4. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  5. ^ Rectors were the kings of Hanover, Ernst August I. (Hanover) and Georg V. (Hanover)
  6. ↑ From HNA.de of October 28, 2013: Unexpected discovery: Wrong brain in a glass Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, October 29, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Conrad Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and university professor; Rector in Göttingen
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1855
Place of death Goettingen