Ernst Bruno von Gersdorff

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Ernst Bruno Freiherr von Gersdorff (born July 18, 1820 in Eisenach , † June 28, 1883 in Pleasantville, New York ) was a German-American doctor, university professor and homeopath.

Life

Ernst Bruno von Gersdorff came from the ancient Lusatian nobility . He was a son of the judge Heinrich August von Gersdorff and his wife Auguste nee. von Tschirschky and Bögendorff. The Minister of State of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach Ernst Christian August von Gersdorff was his uncle. His father was an early friend and sponsor of Samuel Hahnemann and his homeopathy .

He studied human medicine at the University of Jena and the University of Leipzig . In 1840 he became a member of the Corps Misnia Leipzig . On April 20, 1846, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In 1849 he emigrated to the USA as a Forty-Eighter . Because his family belonged to the Moravian Congregation , he first went to their settlement in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) . From there he moved to Boston , then to Andover, Massachusetts, and to Salem, Massachusetts . In 1865 he went on a two-year trip to Germany. He then lived and practiced in Boston. When the medical faculty at Boston University was founded in 1873 , Gersdorff became the first holder of her chair in pathology and therapy. Gersdorff was active in many clubs and societies, including the Boston Homoeopathic Medical Society and the Orpheus Society . He died of bronchial cancer and was buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem.

In Salem in 1860 he had Caroline born. Choate (1834-1889) married, a daughter of George Choate and sister of the doctor George Cheyne Shattuck Choate (1827-1896) and the lawyer and diplomat Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917). So he had married into the Boston patriciate ( Boston Brahmins ). The couple's son Carl August de Gersdorff (1865-1944) became a successful lawyer in New York, a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and was the maternal grandfather of Ben Bradlee . The son George Bruno de Gersdorff (1866–1964) became an architect at McKim, Mead, and White in New York and then went into business for himself; well known is the Harvard Stadium , which he helped build as an architect .

Works

  • Conservatism in its relation to homoeopathy , 1868

literature

  • Ernest Bruno de Gersdorff, M.D. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society 7 (1884), pp. 32-36.
  • Ernst Bruno de Gersdorff, MD, Boston, Mass. Transactions of the 37th Session of the American Institute of Homeopathy, 1884, pp. 656-661

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Bruno von Gersdorff  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 90/18.
  2. ↑ Neue Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung 5 (1846), p. 830
  3. ↑ Dissertation: De hydrocele [1]
  4. ^ Robert T. Swaine: The Cravath Firm and Its Predecessors, 1819-1947 , Volume 1, The Lawbook Exchange, 2006, pp. 494 ff.
  5. ↑ George B. de Gersdorff. In: arch INFORM .
personal data
SURNAME Gersdorff, Ernst Bruno from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gersdorff, Ernest Bruno de (in the USA)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American doctor, university professor and homeopath
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1883
Place of death Pleasantville, New York