Eduard von Hering

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Eduard August von Hering (1799–1881) by Louis Georges Neumann (1846–1930)

Eduard August Hering , von Hering from 1864 (born March 20, 1799 in Stuttgart , † March 28, 1881 ibid) was a German veterinarian and pioneer of scientific veterinary medicine.

Life

Eduard Hering had trained in pharmacy, natural sciences, anatomy and physiology from 1819 to 1820 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , as well as in private lessons with the Tübingen veterinarian Johann Daniel Hofacker (1788–1828) in veterinary medicine after completing his secondary school diploma in Stuttgart , attended the veterinary schools in Vienna ( kk Tierarzney-Institut ), Munich (Königliche Central-Veterinär-Schule) from 1821 to 1822 and after interim stays in the spring of 1822 at the Dresden Veterinary School and the Berlin Veterinary School, most recently until the death of the Danish veterinarian Erik Nissen Viborg ( 1759-1822) in September 1822 the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College in Copenhagen . In November 1822 he was appointed as a teacher of anatomy, physiology and medicine at the Stuttgart Veterinary School, which was founded in 1821, received the title and rank of professor in 1824 and also taught part-time at the Agricultural Academy Hohenheim from 1824 to 1831 . From 1828 to 1858 he headed the clinic and the outpatient cattle clinic of the Stuttgart Veterinary School, which he built, and in 1838 was a co-founder and the first board member of the State Veterinary Association of Württemberg.

Eduard Hering was appointed Medical Councilor in September 1843 and Chief Medical Officer on January 21, 1862. From 1862 until it was handed over to his successor Adolf Rueff in 1869, he was director of the Stuttgart Veterinary School, organized the 1st World Veterinary Congress in Hamburg with John Gamgee in 1863 and received the Order of the Württemberg Crown 1st Class in 1864 , with that in the Kingdom of Württemberg at that time the staff nobility was connected.

In addition, Eduard Hering took over as senior veterinarian in 1858 the position of a consultant in the major rank in the Ministry of War and was awarded the character of lieutenant colonel in 1866 .

As a pioneer of scientific veterinary medicine, he published technical articles in numerous journals, wrote annual reports for years on the progress in veterinary medicine and published a number of independent works, of which his handbook of veterinary surgery was regarded as the standard work of his time.

In addition to other valid first descriptions , Eduard Hering is the first to describe the parasitic mites Notoedres cati ( Hering , 1838), the cause of head scabs, and Otodectes cynotis ( Hering , 1838), the causative agent of ear mange , both of which Eduard Hering first described belong to the genus Sarcoptes Latreille , 1802.

Eduard Hering was born on August 3, 1835 under the registration number. Admitted to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1411 with the academic surname Cruikshank .

At the inauguration of the new university building in 1845, the University of Tübingen made him an honorary doctor of medicine (Dr. med. Hc).

He was married to Marie Elisabeth (1803–1877), née Billeter, daughter of the Swiss physician Andreas Billeter, who worked in Eglishofen, and his wife Katharine, née Huber, since May 27, 1828. The two children Eduard (1833–1872) and Marie (1829–1868) died before the couple.

Orders and decorations

Fonts

  • Easily comprehensible instruction on the sheep for shepherds and landowners . At the instigation of the Association for the Promotion of Sheep Breeding in Würtemberg, Cotta, Stuttgart 1834 ( digitized version )
  • The herb mites of animals and some allied species, described after our own investigations . Nova Acta Leopoldina, 18, 1838, pp. 573–624 ( digitized version )
  • The Royal Württemberg Thier Medicinal School in Stuttgart in the first XXV years of its existence . Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1847 ( digitized version )
  • Special pathology and therapy for veterinarians. For use in lectures and for personal instruction . 2nd increased edition, Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1849 ( digitized version )
  • Handbook of veterinary surgery . Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1857 ( digitized )

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ The choice of his nickname was reminiscent of the British anatomist William Cumberland Cruikshank (1745–1800), who had found newly grown tissue in animal experiments in gaps in the incision and interpreted it as regeneration of the severed nerves.
  2. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, directory of the members of the academy, according to the chronological order, p. 264 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Hering, Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hering, Eduard August; Hering, Eduard August von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1881
Place of death Stuttgart