Eduard Florens Rivinus
Eduard Florens Rivinus (born December 30, 1801 in Düben , † February 14, 1873 on the Hyérian Islands ) was a German-American doctor and author .
Life
He was the son of the lawyer and the official inspector in Düben and Eilenburg Johann Friedrich Christoph R. (1774–1808) and of Johanna Friederike geb. Eckert from Eilenburg. Despite the early death of his father and other existing siblings, Rivinus was able to study medicine in Leipzig due to the wealth of the family , after he had been expelled from the gymnasium in Meißen because of his publicly announced liberal views and had finished his school days at a gymnasium in Leipzig. During his studies in 1822 he became a member of the Old Leipzig Burschenschaft . He was also a member of the Youth League . He was interrogated by the authorities about these memberships and as a result gave up his studies. He traveled through northern Germany and Denmark and in 1823 through England , where he carried out botanical research. In the summer of 1824 she emigrated to the USA , to Philadelphia and later to Germantown . He continued his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania and in private tuition and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He worked as a general practitioner at the Philadelphia Poor Hospital and then as a general practitioner in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia. In 1832 he was one of the founders of the Cholera Hospital in Philadelphia. He married Elise Caldwell, the daughter of an American Congressman. Due to this contact Rivinus was appointed consul of the United States in Dresden in 1837 . He was one of the organizers of the "Girard College" in Philadelphia, from 1839 in Washington and from 1841 as a general practitioner in West Chester .
He made realistic reports on his travels to England and the USA. In 1832 he wrote the catalog of the Philadelphia Hospital and translated, among other things, the "Phiyiologie" by Friedrich Tiedemann into English. In 1856 he gave up his medical practice and moved to Germantown, where he devoted himself entirely to his research. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Pennsyvania Historical Society, and a member and vice president of the American Colonization Society . He was also a member of the Philadelphia Botanical Society . From 1861 to 1863 he traveled to Germany, France and Italy and died during his visit to the seaside resort of Hyéres . In 1873 the American Colonization Society held a memorial service in his honor.
Works
- Historical-statistical representation of northern England along with comparative remarks on a trip through the southwestern counties, in letters (1824).
- Atlantis; Journal of the latest and most worth knowing from the fields of politics, history, geography, statistics, cultural history and literature of the North and South American empires including the West Indian Archipelagus (editor and co-author from 1826/27).
- Catalog of the medical library of the Philadelphia Alms-house: prepared agreeably to a resolution of the Board of Managers (1831).
- On the operation of physical causes upon the constitution, the health, and diseases of man (Dissertation in Philadelphia, 1831)
literature
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Rivinus, Eduard Florens , in: Important historical personalities of the Dübener Heide , AMF - No. 237, 2012, p. 85.
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 84-85.
Remarks
- ^ After Dvorak, p. 84: Born on January 1, 1802.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduard Florens Rivinus in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rivinus, Eduard Florens |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American doctor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Over there |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1873 |
| Place of death | in the Hyérian Islands |