Emil Groos

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Emil Groos (born October 12, 1803 in Saßmannshausen ; † December 23, 1885 in Laasphe ) was a German doctor and honorary citizen of the city of Laasphe.

Live and act

Emil Groos was born on October 12, 1803 as the third son of the princely chamber assessor Johann Daniel Karl Henrich Groos (1771-1858) and his wife Friederike born. Schaffner was born in Saßmannshausen near Laasphe. He attended grammar school in Wetzlar, began studying medicine in Bonn after graduating from high school in 1821, enrolled at the University of Marburg on May 8, 1822, and then studied in Gießen from May 8, 1823. He passed the medical exam in 1825 with the grade "very good" at the Royal Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. His inaugural dissertation, written in Latin, entitled De inflammatione hepatitis , he presented on March 19, 1825 in Berlin, where he received his doctorate. He turned down a physics district in Bochum that was offered to him. Instead, he accepted a position in Meerholz near Gelnhausen as Count Ysenburg's personal physician. In Meerholz he met his future wife. He married Pauline Auguste Clever (1802–1877), the daughter of the local businessman Heinrich Moritz Clever, on April 14, 1833 in Gelnhausen. After a few years, Groos set up as a general practitioner in Wetzlar. On March 18, 1835, the only child Ferdinand was born in Wetzlar and died at the age of five. Emil Groos moved to his hometown Laasphe around 1845, where he opened a country doctor's practice. His father had two houses built in Laasphe, one of which Emil took over, while his brother Eduard Groos had already set up his homeopathic doctor's practice in the neighboring house. Emil Groos became the personal physician of Prince Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein . The latter appointed him Princely Councilor; Groos was appointed district physician for the Wittgenstein district and secret medical councilor. On the occasion of his 60th anniversary as a doctor, the city of Laasphe made him an honorary citizen. Emil Groos died in Laasphe on December 23, 1885 at the age of 82.

Awards

  • before 1885 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd class.
  • In 1885 Emil Groos became an honorary citizen of the city of Laasphe on the occasion of his 60th anniversary as a doctor.

Trivia

Emil Groos joined a fraternity during his student days and was a feared thug within the association. However, he lost an eye on the fencing floor. The two Laaspher doctors Emil and Eduard Groos have become known as the "black and the red councilor", as they were called after their hair color. So that the patients did not mix up their doctors in the neighboring houses, they had their barns painted black and red. Their medical opinion was also different: Dr. Emil Groos was a representative of conventional medicine, allopathy , while his brother Dr. Eduard Groos successfully practiced as a homeopath. Emil Groos is reported to have been so eager that three days before his death he had his housekeeper drag him in the car to meet several seriously ill patients. He was also so unselfish that he did not demand a medical fee and never kept books and accounts for his medical services. He only took what was given to him without being asked.

literature

  • Ms. Otto Groos, Marburg: When grandfather took grandmother . Self-published in Marburg 1895, online edition: Düsseldorf, University and State Library, 2015.
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Bonn: Medicine: Groos, Emil, Laasphe, date of enrollment: May 5, 1821, apartment Rheingasse 9/12.
  2. ↑ Catalogi studiosorum Marpurgensium (1811-1822), page 543: Matrikel Uni Marburg, No. 133/1822: May 9, 1822: Aemilius Groos, Laasphe-Witgensteinensis, Medic. Link: http://dspace.ut.ee/bitstream/handle/10062/24860/g_1913.pdf?sequence=1
  3. ↑ In the Protestant church book Laasphe, a distinction is made between the two doctors Groos who determined death from 1845 onwards. Accessed: September 14, 2018
  4. ↑ Ev. Church book Laasphe: Burials, No. 42/1885
  5. ↑ Mrs. Otto Groos: When the grandfather took the grandmother . Self-published, Marburg 1895, page 41.
  6. ^ Gustav Bauer: The Groos family in Wittgenstein. In: Wittgenstein magazine, vol. 53, 1965, vol. 29, no. 2, pages 74 and 75.
  7. ↑ In the Laasphe church register, the 76-year-old Laaspherin Elisabeth Speck is notarized at the funerals under No. 40/1885, whose death on December 17, 1885 was still confirmed by Dr. Groos II (Emil Groos) was certified. Accessed on September 14, 2018.
  8. ↑ Gustav Bauer: The Groos family and their relationship to Wittgenstein. In: Das Schöne Wittgenstein, born 1927, issue 1, page 27.
personal data
SURNAME Groos, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and honorary citizen of the city of Laasphe
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Saßmannshausen
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1885
Place of death Laasphe