Dittmar Finkler

From left: Dittmar Finkler, Heinrich Fritsch and August Bier , 1906

Dittmar Finkler (born July 25, 1852 in Dillenburg , † February 16, 1912 in Bonn ) was a German doctor and professor.

Career

From 1871 to 1875 Finkler studied medicine at the University of Bonn and was there in particular a student of Eduard Pflüger and Hugo Ruehle . In 1875 he graduated with the doctorate from a Doctor of Medicine, 1877 he received in Bonn his habilitation . This was followed by four years as a private lecturer. Finkler worked as an assistant to his former teacher, Pflüger, from 1875 to 1879, and from 1879 to 1882 as a clinical assistant at Rühle.

In April 1881, Finkler took up lectures on animal physiology , which were also connected with an experimental activity. On July 5, 1881 he was appointed associate professor of medicine in Bonn and represented clinical propaedeutics as such . From 1886 Finkler was chief physician in the internal department of the Protestant Friedrich Wilhelm Foundation and, from 1888 to 1893, director of the medical outpatient clinic , giving up the professorship . At the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893) he represented the German universities as General Commissioner on behalf of the Minister of Education and then toured the country. After his return from the USA in the fall of 1893, Finkler, who after the failure of his attempt to achieve an independent management of the Medical Polyclinic, turned away from internal medicine to hygiene , took over hygiene lessons from Carl Maria Finkelnburg in Bonn. In 1894 he was able to take on a scheduled extraordinary professorship there, and was co-founding director of the newly established Hygienic Institute. On December 31, 1898, Finkler became the holder of a now regular chair in this subject. In 1890 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Finkler came into possession of what would later become the Crown Prince's villa in Bonn through his marriage to the daughter of the wealthy entrepreneur Friedrich König in 1898 , arranged for the property to be subdivided and for Wörthstrasse (now Tempelstrasse) to be built on it at his own expense, including the construction of a staircase to the Rhine . In addition to a double villa (1899/1900) intended for resale, he also had a villa built there for his own family (1900/01). From 1903 until his death, Finkler was chairman of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn association .

Research work

In one of his most important research projects, Finkler was devoted to improving nutrition by utilizing the proteins and carbons contained in bran . In 1884, together with J. Prior, he discovered a "comma bacillus " in cases of cholera nostras, but Robert Koch and his students denied its importance for the cause of the disease .

literature

Josef Niesen : Bonn Personal Lexicon. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 , p. 145.
Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 3, Catalog (2), pp. 160–162. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
Julius Pagel: Dittmar, Finkler . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin and Vienna 1901, Col. 505–506
Walter Bruchhausen: Hygiene and Public Health in Bonn from the 18th to the 20th century . In: Walter Bruchhausen and Thomas Kistemann (eds.): 125 years of the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health . Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062603-6 , pp. 7-56 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century
^ ^A ^b Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914
^ Paul Egon Hübinger: Selected essays and lectures: Contributions to the history of Europe and the Rhineland in the Middle Ages and modern times . In: Bonner historical research , Volume 53, F. Schmitt, 1990, ISSN 0520-5689 , p. 546.
↑ Hans-Heinz Eulner: The development of special medical subjects at the universities in the German-speaking area , F. Enke, 1970, p. 149.
^ Josef Niesen: Bonner Personenlexikon. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 .
^ Walter Bruchhausen: Hygiene and Public Health in Bonn from the 18th to the 20th century . In: ders. And Thomas Kistemann (ed.): 125 years of the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health . Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062603-6 , pp. 7–56, here p. 27 .

personal data
SURNAME	Finkler, Dittmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 25, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dillenburg
DATE OF DEATH	February 16, 1912
Place of death	Bonn

[Bio-1] A ^b Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century

[Sonntag-2] A ^b Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914

[3] Paul Egon Hübinger: Selected essays and lectures: Contributions to the history of Europe and the Rhineland in the Middle Ages and modern times . In: Bonner historical research , Volume 53, F. Schmitt, 1990, ISSN 0520-5689 , p. 546.

[4] Hans-Heinz Eulner: The development of special medical subjects at the universities in the German-speaking area , F. Enke, 1970, p. 149.

[5] Josef Niesen: Bonner Personenlexikon. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 .

[6] Walter Bruchhausen: Hygiene and Public Health in Bonn from the 18th to the 20th century . In: ders. And Thomas Kistemann (ed.): 125 years of the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health . Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062603-6 , pp. 7–56, here p. 27 .