Eduard Groos

Eduard Groos (1806-1891) (drawing c. 1860)

Eduard Groos (born February 21, 1806 at Wittgenstein Castle ; † December 12, 1891 in Laasphe ) was a German doctor and honorary citizen of the city of Laasphe.

Live and act

Eduard Albert Groos was born on February 21, 1806 as the fourth son of the Princely Chamber Assessor Johann Daniel Karl Henrich Groos (1771–1858) and his wife Friederike born. Schaffner was born at Wittgenstein Castle near Laasphe.

Groos first studied theology at the University of Marburg in 1825 , but then switched to medical studies and continued it in Bonn from 1827 to 1829 . He spent the years 1829 to 1831 in Berlin , where he first completed his one-year military service with the guardsmen and then completed his studies with the 1831 exam with the rating "very good". He submitted his inaugural dissertation De epiphora seu dacryorrhysi , written in Latin, to the University of Berlin in 1830 , where he received his doctorate.

He settled in Laasphe as a country doctor in 1831. In 1835 Groos made the acquaintance of the botanist and homeopath Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen in Münster. His brother-in-law Ludwig Griesselich was particularly pioneering, and after many years of correspondence about the principles and basic beliefs of the new school, he moved him to convert to homeopathy and conduct his rural practice according to these principles.

On January 19, 1839, on the occasion of the birth of Princess Amalie (née Countess zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg) of twins at Wittgenstein Castle, he was appointed court advisor and second personal physician to Prince Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein .

In addition to his job, Groos was politically active in the city of Laasphe and the Wittgenstein district . For many years he was head of the city council, a member of the magistrate and the district council. He made particular contributions to the construction of the Marburg – Kreuztal railway line , for which he campaigned for many years. When the groundbreaking ceremony was to be carried out in the Biedenkopf district, he received this honor on December 29, 1875.

Towards the end of his career he published a book about his practical experiences in the field of homeopathy: The experiences of an old doctor especially in the field of homeopathy. A biographical-medical sketch. “By Eduard Albert Groos, general practitioner, surgeon and obstetrician, Fürstlich = Wittgensteinischer Hofrat, member of the homeopathic Central Association of Germany, honorary citizen of the city of Laasphe.” Verlag J. Bädeker, Iserlohn 1885. 407 pages.

Eduard Groos married Caroline Mariane Johannette Wilhelmine Abresch on February 21, 1835, daughter of the royal judiciary Gottlieb Victor Abresch and his wife Johanna Margareta Winterstein in Laasphe.

Two of his five sons were also homeopathic doctors in Magdeburg and Barmen .

Eduard Groos died at the age of 85 on December 12, 1891 in Laasphe.

Awards

• In 1839 Groos was appointed court advisor and personal physician to the ruling Prince Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein.
• In 1881 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class.
• In 1881 Eduard Groos became an honorary citizen of Laasphe on the occasion of his golden anniversary as a doctor .

Trivia

Eduard Groos was known in Laasphe as the “red councilor”. His older brother, Emil Groos , was called the "black councilor". This linguistic distinction between the brothers (both were general practitioners, both were councilors of the princely house, both were "Dr. med. E. Groos") was initially due to their different hair color. Their houses on Laaspher Lahnstrasse, which were still built by their father, differed mainly in one detail: the paint on the barns, namely red and black. With this, the two doctors wanted to control the influx of patients, since Eduard Groos ran a homeopathic practice, his brother Emil preferred allopathy to conventional medicine.

literature

• Fritz D. Schroers: Lexicon of German-speaking Homeopaths Georg Thieme Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-8304-7254-4 , p. 44.,
• Pastor Bauer, Laasphe: The Groos family and their relationships with Wittgenstein In: Das Schöne Wittgenstein, 1st issue, year 1927, Verlag Ernst Schmidt, Laasphe, 1927
• Gustav Bauer , Laasphe: The Groos family in Wittgenstein In: Wittgenstein, Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV, year 53, 1965, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 73-75,
• Karl Großmann: From old letters of the Groos family In: Wittgenstein, Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV, year 53, 1965, vol. 29, no.2, pp. 75–79
• Rudolf Tischner: History of Homeopathy, Verlag Springer, Vienna 1998, p. 171
• Ms. Otto Groos, when grandfather took grandmother. Self-published in Marburg 1895, online edition: University and State Library, Düsseldorf 2015, accessed: September 14, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fr. Otto Groos, When Grandfather Took Grandmother. Self-published in Marburg 1895, page 42
2. ↑ Eduard Groos. " De epiphora seu dacryorrhysi " Berlin 1830 (digitized BSB)
3. ↑ Groos and Griesselich's wives were sisters. Griesselich married in Laasphe. Ev. Laasphe church book, marriage no.11/1828, inspection on September 5, 2018.
4. ↑ Fritz D. Schroers: Lexicon of German-speaking Homeopaths . Ed .: Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation. Karl F. Haug, Stuttgart 2006, p. 44 .
5. ^ Archive Wittgenstein, Acta K 338, "Chamber officials - re. Employment and management of the Councilor Dr. Eduard Groos zu Laasphe, 1839/74", u. a. Patent dated January 19, 1839.
6. ↑ Eduard Groos: Memorandum on the necessity of the imminent implementation of the Lenne-Lahn-Bahn, a connecting line between the Ruhr-Sieg- and Main-Weser-Bahn, from Altenhundem via Laasphe and Biedenkopf to Marburg, in particular relation to the Wittgenstein district , Matthey, Berleburg 1871
7. ↑ The most uplifting testimony of respect and gratitude for me was the one I received at the inauguration ceremony of our railway on April 29th. M. transferred first groundbreaking. With a splendid, specially made spade, the handle of which was covered with gold paper and abundantly flagged with black and white ribbons, I performed the same in the most solemn mood of an incalculable crowd . Excerpt from a letter from Eduard Groos to his son Oskar on January 12, 1876. In: Zeitschrift "Wittgenstein", vol. 53, 1965, vol. 29, no. 2, page 79.
8. ↑ Ev. Laasphe church book, No. 4/1835, accessed on September 5, 2018
9. ^ Oskar Groos (1835 - 1903) worked in Magdeburg until 1898, Ernst Groos (* 1846) died as a walker. San.Rat in Barmen. Source: History of Homeopathy by Dr. med. Rudolf Tischner, Springer Verlag, Vienna 1998.
10. ↑ Ev. Laasphe church book, Burials, No. 32/1891, accessed on September 5, 2018
11. ↑ In the church registers of the Protestant Church in Laasphe, a distinction was made for decades with the death entries between Dr. Groos I and Dr. Groos II, depending on which of the two country doctors had certified the death of the parishioner.
12. ^ Pastor Gustav Bauer: The Groos family in Wittgenstein , Wittgenstein magazine, year 53, 1965, vol. 29, no. 2, p. 75