Elias Salomon

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Elias Salomon (born January 27, 1814 in Heilsberg , † February 5, 1885 in Bromberg ) was a German medic.

Life

Elias Salomon was born the son of the merchant Gerson Salomon. To study medicine, he went to the University of Königsberg. In 1837 he became a member of the Corpsland Team Normannia . After completing his studies and doctorate as Dr. med. he established himself as a general practitioner in Szamocin . Later he was a medical councilor in Bromberg. In 1861 he took part in a scientific competition advertised by the South German Psychiatric Society on the subject of "What are the causes of the suicides that have become so prevalent in recent times and which means are to be used for contraception?" Using statistical methods, a novelty in medicine at the time, he was able to prove that the question for the scientific competition was based on erroneous assumptions and that there was no general increase in suicide cases.

As a poet, he wrote the text of the famous student song Fiducit . At Christmas 1835 he dedicated a few poems to Karl Rosenkranz , Immanuel Kant's successor on the chair for philosophy in Königsberg, as a token of his admiration for the academic teacher.

The Corpsland Team Normannia Königsberg elected Elias Salomon as an honorary member.

Fonts

  • Student song : Fiducit (three journeymen had a fine college ...) , 1835, melody by August Wilhelm Briesewitz
  • On the causes of the increase in suicides and their prevention , 1861

literature

  • Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, Sp. 1468. ( Permalink )
  • Hans Rost: Bibliography of Suicide, No. 2727, Salomon (1814-1885) , 1992 (reprint from 1927)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener corps lists 1910, 142/29
  2. ^ Karl Rosenkranz: Letters 1827 to 1850 , 1994 (editor Joachim Butzlaff) ISBN 3-11-014373-9 , pp. 99-100
  3. ^ German songs - piano edition for the General German Kommersbuch , 4th edition, 1992, ISBN 3-7946-0002-9 , p. 188


personal data
SURNAME Solomon, Elias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilsberg
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1885
Place of death Bromberg