Eduard Bronner

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Eduard Bronner (born July 12, 1822 in Wiesloch , † March 19, 1885 in Bradford ) was a German doctor, revolutionary and parliamentarian.

Life

Eduard Bronner was one of the sons of the pharmacist and viticulture pioneer Johann Philipp Bronner . After attending grammar school in Heidelberg , Eduard Bronner studied medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1839 to 1845 , interrupted by a study visit at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in the winter semester 1843/44. In 1841 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg . In 1844 he became a member of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft Allemannia and the Burschenschaft Walhalla Freiburg . In 1846 he passed the Baden exam and became an assistant to Franz Naegele . From winter 1846/47 to 1848 he continued his education at hospitals in Paris, with Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Roller and at the university clinics in Vienna and Prague. In spring 1848 he settled in his hometown Wiesloch, where he married the following year. In 1849 he was appointed civil commissioner for the Wiesloch district office by the Baden Revolutionary Government. For constituency XVII (districts Wiesloch, Heidelberg, Weinheim) he was a member of the Baden Constituent Assembly of 1849 . He was a member of his local people's association .

After the revolution was suppressed, he had to leave Baden and first went to Zurich and Strasbourg , where he trained at the local hospitals. When the Baden exiles were no longer tolerated in Strasbourg, he went to Saint-Dié-des-Vosges and Épinal . In the autumn of 1850 he came to Paris and trained at the local hospitals. In November 1851 he also had to leave France and went to England, first to Manchester . In July 1852 he established himself as a doctor in Bradford. In 1852 he was supported by the University of Jena to the Dr. med. PhD. In 1853 he became a corresponding member of the Association of German Doctors and Natural Scientists in Paris. In 1857 he trained in ophthalmology and ear medicine in Paris and London. In 1859 he passed the medical exam at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Apothecaries' Hall . In the autumn of 1857 he founded a consultation room for people with eye and ear diseases in Bradford at his own expense, in which he treated and operated on the poor in the town, especially the factory workers, free of charge. From this consultation room a small private hospital for eye diseases developed into the next, from which the first public eye hospital in England emerged in 1865.

In 1859 Bronner founded a German Schiller Club in Bradford and supported needy Germans in Bradford. For their charitable and cultural commitment, he and his wife received on the occasion of their silver wedding from the small colony of Germans in Bradford an amount of 1000 pounds sterling, a box of silver dishes worth 600 pounds sterling and two silver laurel wreaths for his wife.

Bronner was one of the most valued citizens of Bradford of his time, far beyond the city limits. When he was buried in Bradford on March 22nd, 1885, thousands of people lined the funeral procession to the Undercliffe Cemetery to the ringing of church and town hall bells, and all shops in the town had closed as a token of respect. Karl Schaible closed his necrology with the words: “Eduard Bronner had neither a title nor a medal. His only title was that of the good doctor , his star of honor was that of gratitude, which shone in the eyes of the poor, his motto was: 'Love your fellow men more than yourself' ”.

literature

  • Sonja-Maria Bauer: The Constituent Assembly in the Baden Revolution of 1849 , 1991, p. 56, 332–333 ISBN 3-7700-5164-5
  • Baden biographies , part IV, p. 57 ff. ( Digitized version )
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 141.

Individual evidence

  1. Werner Zinser:  Bronner, Johann Philipp. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 636 ( digitized version ).
  2. Kösener corps lists 1910, 121 , 357