Felix Berthold

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Felix Berthold (full name Alexander Heinrich Felix Berthold ; born June 4, 1859 in Magdeburg ; died August 13, 1909 in Hanover ) was a German staff and garrison doctor and manufacturer . He was one of the main participants in the investigation of the alleged Leibniz - tomb .

Life

Felix Berthold was born in Magdeburg as the son of Chief Staff and Garrison Doctor Alexander Hugo Berthold and Katharine Charlotte Elisabeth Persius. He attended Lyceum I in Hanover for five years until he was 18 , before he started studying medicine on April 1st 1878 to February 15, 1882 attended the later Kaiser Wilhelms Academy in Berlin . On May 21, 1883, he received his doctorate from the University of Berlin with his dissertation entitled Statistical Contribution to Knowledge of Chronic Gastric Ulcer . On January 27, 1885, he was promoted to assistant doctor.

Berthold married Bertha Meinicke in Hanover on May 23, 1889 (born November 10, 1869 in Hanover; died July 16, 1950 there).

Berthold worked temporarily as a battalion doctor in Infantry Regiment No. 79 in Hildesheim , before he retired from active service as a medical officer on April 21, 1891. He then became the owner of a factory as a partner from 1891 and successor to his father-in-law Heinrich Meinecke in the company JC König & Ebhardt .

In the year of his death in 1909, the medical officer a. D. his Hanoverian residence at Jägerstrasse 14.

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Felix Berthold was in the - - preserved family grave in the town cemetery Engesohde , Department 9 K buried.

Opening of the Leibniz grave

Skull of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , photo by Georg Alpers junior

When the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis was rebuilt according to plans by the architect Hermann Schaedtler - the construction manager was Theodor Hörner, the ceiling painting was done by the painter Oscar Wichtendahl - the crypt under the tombstone with the inscription ossa leibnitii for the universal scholar Gottfried Wilhelm was also created in 1902 Leibniz open. In the investigation of the grave, which was opened on July 4, 1902, “ Dr. med. and medical officer a. D. Felix Berthold ”. He assisted the anatomist Wilhelm Krause from the Royal Anatomical Institute in Berlin with the examination and measurement of the skull as well as with the compilation of a list of the bones found. The first pastor and chairman of the church council, Karl Julius Mohr, who later wrote down the opening of the tomb, was also present. After the examination, Georg Alpers junior photographed the skull, from which the sculptor Anton Stietz then made various plaster casts.

The original of the log of the opening of the grave, which was handwritten by the parish pastor Mohr in 1902, comes from Berthold's estate . Berthold's granddaughter Roswitha von Lingelsheim found the document in her parents' files and in 2009 gave it to Pastor Martina Trauschke for the parish archive of Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche.

Fonts

  • Statistical contribution to the knowledge of chronic gastric ulcer (from the section protocols of the pathological institute in Berlin), dissertation 1882 at the University of Berlin, 1882

Web links

  • Christoph Weber: Alexander Heinrich Felix Berthold along with cross references on the genealogical page of the family foundation Hofgärtner Hermann Sello
  • Karl Julius Mohr: Report on the opening of the grave of GW Leibniz from July 10, 1902; Copy under the title Leibnizgrab on the side of the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche
  • BobB: Dr Felix Berthold , 2 photographs of the family grave of Felix Berthold on the site findagrave.com

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the year of birth 1855 was given; compare Paul Wätzold : Felix Berthold , in ders .: Stammliste of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Akademie for military medical education . On behalf of the Medical Department of the Royal Ministry of War using official sources. Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg 1910, p. 229; limited preview in Google Book search

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Berthold, Felix , in: Complete directory of German-language literature , part 1700-1910 , Volume 14: Bero - Bibi , edited under the direction of Hilmar Schmuck and Willi Gorzny. Bibliographical and editorial advice from Hans Popst and Rainer Schöller, Munich; New York ; London; Paris: Verlag KG Saur, 1980, ISBN 978-3-598-30000-4 and ISBN 3-598-30000-X , p. 31; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c Christoph Weber: Alexander Heinrich Felix Berthold and cross-references on the genealogical page of the family foundation Hofgärtner Hermann Sello [undated], last accessed on July 28, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Paul Wätzold: Felix Berthold , in ders .: Stammliste der Kaiser Wilhelms-Akademie ... (1910), p. 229; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b c Karl Julius Mohr: Report on the opening of the grave of GW Leibniz from July 10, 1902; Copy under the title Leibnizgrab on the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche website in the version of May 2, 2020, last accessed on July 29, 2020
  5. ^ Annual report of the Lyceum I in Hanover on the school year 1877/78 , Hanover: printed by W. Jürgens, 1878, p. 23; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Heinz Schmidt-Bachem : From paper. A cultural and economic history of the paper processing industry in Germany , Berlin; Boston, Massachusetts: De Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023607-1 , p. 482; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ^ Address book, city and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover, the city of Linden and the towns of Badenstedt, Bornum, Davenstedt, Körtingsdorf, Limmer and Ricklingen. 1909 , Department III: Alphabetical index of residents and trading companies , printing and publishing by Berthold Pokrantz, Wagenerstraße 17, Hanover [1908?], P. 45; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  8. ↑ BobB Dr Felix Berthold , 2 photographs of the family grave of Felix Berthold in the online database Find a Grave from June 12, 2014
  9. ↑ Simon Benne : Bones / Who really rests in the Leibniz grave? ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from September 2, 2009, last accessed on July 29, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Berthold, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berthold, Alexander Heinrich Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German staff and garrison doctor, entrepreneur and involved in the opening of the Leibniz grave
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1909
Place of death Hanover