Eberhard Karl Martini

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Eberhard Karl Martini (born January 10, 1790 in Biberach an der Riss , † April 26, 1835 in Paris ) was a German medic .

Life

Eberhard Karl Martini was born in Biberach an der Riss on January 10, 1790 as the son of the doctor Joseph Xaver Alexius Martini. His brothers Ludwig Sebastian Martini and Ferdinand Candidus Martini later also became doctors. The brothers Karl Clemens Martini and Friedrich Martini founded an industrial company for textile finishing in Augsburg and Karl Anton Martini became a painter. After receiving training from his father, he studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg and Vienna . When war broke out in 1809, Martini was deployed as an imperial-royal junior doctor in the 3rd Dragoon Regiment Baron Knesevich and he witnessed the battle of Aspern . Thousands of soldiers were injured in the battle and Martini's efforts were not only publicly praised , but also rewarded with 100 guilders . Due to the exertion, however, in the following year he suffered first from nerve fever , then from intermittent fever and also contracted an ongoing joint inflammation . In addition, he suffered frostbite in the winter of 1812 , which affected his nose , ears and toes , especially the two big toes.

In 1813 armed conflicts raged again and Martini was again appointed senior physician and also chief physician of the Imperial and Royal Army Hospital in Troyes . During this time, however, he was captured twice and 35 senior and junior physicians were attacked by typhus , including Martini, who suffered memory loss and contracted nerve fever again, but recovered. After the war had ended, doctorate to Martini for doctor and he continued his interrupted studies in Vienna continued. There he took over a practice and was particularly known for his surgical activity and was then appointed to the Imperial and Royal regimental field physician. First he took over this position in Hohenzollern , then with Archduke Karl-Ulanen and finally for the cuirassier regiment Auersperg .

In 1824 he was sent to the Moldova region to watch the plague . Without his consent, he became the personal physician of Archduke Rudolf of Austria the following year . However, Martini was not satisfied with this position, which is why he was sent to Bucharest - Jassy as a consular doctor on March 18, 1828 and received as a side job to continue to monitor the spread of the plague. From 1831 he played the role of chief physician at the military hospital in Baden , but in July he went to a hospital for cholera patients in this position ; because this disease had broken out again shortly before.

In the period from September 14th to the beginning of December he treated 302 members of the military there, of whom 195, or about two thirds, survived the disease; for this he was active both during the day and at night, although he himself was not in perfect health. At the beginning of 1835 he went on a research trip to Paris, but he died there on April 26th of that year at the age of 45. The death is due to a heart disease that Martini had been carrying for eight years, probably triggered by the previous exertion.

Since Martini was busy as a doctor and died an unexpected early death, he left no works of his own, apart from newspaper articles.

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personal data
SURNAME Martini, Eberhard Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1835
Place of death Paris