Eduard Lent

Eduard Lent (born November 16, 1831 in Wesel , † April 25, 1911 in Cologne ) was a German physician, secret medical adviser and author. He was considered a pioneer of a social hygiene movement .

Life

Lent studied medicine in Berlin, Heidelberg and Würzburg and received his doctorate in 1855. From 1857 he worked as a doctor in Cologne. Since the establishment of the Public Health Department , he was an associate member of the Office. He was chairman of the "Rhenish Medical Association". From 1874 to 1911 he was a member of the Cologne city ​​council and chairman of the National Liberal Party .

Works as an author

• On the development of tooth substances , 1854.
• Changes in the nerves after cutting and reuniting , 1855.
• Report on the 2nd cholera epidemic in Cologne 1867 , 1868.
• Correspondence sheet of the Lower Rhine Association for Public Health Care , 10 volumes, 1871–1881
• Central sheet for general health care and supplementary books , 1882.

Posthumous honors

Lentstrasse in the Neustadt-Nord district of Cologne was named after Eduard Lent. In October 2011, the new combined ice and swimming stadium Lentpark was named after his name.

literature

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 96 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Julius Pagel : Lent, Eduard . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, Sp.  986–987 .
• Volkmar Lent: Eduard Lent - 1831-1911: The hygienic conscience of Cologne - founder and promoter of public health care, social institutions, medical self-administration , R. Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-942825-22-1