Erich Ebstein
Erich Ebstein (born June 11, 1880 in Göttingen , † April 16, 1931 in Leipzig ) was a German doctor and writer.
Life
Ebstein came from a Jewish medical family. The father was Wilhelm Ebstein , professor for internal medicine at the in Göttingen. The mother Elfriede geb. Nicolaier (1851-1926) was a sister of Arthur Nicolaier , the discoverer of the tetanus pathogen.
Erich Ebstein passed the Abitur examination on August 22, 1899 in Kassel. He studied preclinical at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . After the Physikum on July 24, 1901, he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität . In 1903 he converted to Protestantism in Heidelberg . He received his doctorate on July 23, 1904. He received his license to practice medicine from Baden in 1904 in Karlsruhe. As an assistant doctor he trained with Max Verworn in Göttingen, with Hermann Fischer in Berlin, with Friedrich von Müller in Munich and with Adolf von Strümpell in Leipzig. He was at v. Strümpell specialist in internal diseases and senior physician (until 1919). He stayed at the clinic until his death, most recently as head of the municipal nursing homes. Not yet 51 years old, he died of a stroke . Short reports of his death appeared in the Frankfurter Zeitung , the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift and the Leipziger Zeitung . His friend Erich Mühsam correctly foresaw that only medical, literary-historical or bibliophile notes, not a comprehensive appraisal, could be expected. His obituary for Ebstein, intended for the Berliner Tageblatt , never appeared, but has come down to us.
"With Ebstein a person of a completely closed unity of spirit died, and if the long series of works written and edited by him enumerates a text" About the congenital and the acquired funnel breast "and one about" Lichtenberg's girl "in quick succession, it is necessary only the reminder that works on “Chr. Grabbe's Disease ”and“ Schiller's Disease ”appear in the series in order to recognize transitions between the distant fields of study of the indulgent scholar. It is peculiar enough that the central point from which Ebstein's research and communication zeal moved in so different directions is a geographical point: Göttingen. "
family
In September 1916 Ebstein met the teacher Carola Sophia Susanna born there in Darmstadt . Weber (1891–1973) engaged. The wedding followed in April 1917. The couple had their son Hans Wilhelm Georg Ebstein . Born on June 30, 1919 in Leipzig, he is said to have lived in the Göttingen area in 1985.
plant
His sense of art, his fanatical bibliophilia and his philological disposition aroused his interest in the spiritual personalities of Göttingen. He wanted to look after his father's work and collect and process the work of his hometown. A comprehensive study on Gottfried August Bürger first appeared in 1902 . In 1903 the treatise of Bürger's Poems in Music followed . In 1904 a second volume completed the “Bürger-Bild”. In 1905 he published Bürger's poems "in an older version". The other great Göttingen poet to whom the young Ebstein devoted himself with all love and thoroughness was Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . In 1906 he honored his father with a Wilhelm Ebstein bibliography . After his death, he published it in an expanded version in 1912. In 1913 he wrote a book about the Göttingen physicians Johann Lukas Schönlein and Johannes Müller . As a manuscript collector, he specialized in letters from Schönlein and Bürger. Since the Harzreise leads via Göttingen, it was considered in 1920. And since Hoffmann von Fallersleben received many suggestions in Ebstein's homeland, he published Forgotten Epigrams in 1927 . The petition of Hippocrates (1914), the anthologies doctors letters from four centuries (1920) and doctors memoirs Era (1923) and the publication of the letters of Heinrich Hoffmann , show (1924) that he looked out over Göttingen. In just under 35 years, Ebstein produced over 500 publications on the history of medicine, cultural and, above all, literary history, including countless miscells .
Books
- From Lichtenberg's correspondence . Stuttgart 1905.
- Lichtenberg's girl . Munich 1907.
- GA citizens, love songs . Leipzig 1913.
- Letters to Philippine Gatterer . Leipzig 1921.
- Münchhausen's wonderful journeys by sea and land [...] First verbatim copy of Bürger's first translation from 1786 . Weimar 1925.
estate
Part of the handwritten estate was deposited in the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar (mainly with the literary history collections and studies, especially on Gottfried August Bürger). Another part can be found in the Berlin State Library (mainly family papers, medical history and medical works and drafts as well as some correspondence).
literature
- Neue Deutsche Biographie 4 (1959), p. 270.
- Wilhelm Haberling , Obituary for Ebstein, Communications on the History of Medicine and Natural Science 30 (1931), p. 228.
- Yearbook of German Bibliophiles and Literature Friends 16/17 (1931), p. 144.
- Ebstein, Erich. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 43-53.
- Ebstein, Erich , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 73
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Ulrich Joost : Erich Ebstein and Erich Mühsam
- ↑ Dissertation: The diastole of the heart .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ebstein, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ebstein, Erich Hugo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1931 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |