Ferdinand of Hebra

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Ferdinand of Hebra

Ferdinand Karl Franz Ritter von Hebra , born Ferdinand Karl Franz Schwarzmann (born September 7, 1816 in Brünn / Moravia , † August 5, 1880 in Vienna ), was an Austrian dermatologist . He is regarded as the founder of the scientific teaching of skin diseases .

origin

The later Knight of Hebra was born in 1816 under the name Ferdinand Karl Franz Schwarzmann. He was the illegitimate son of Aloysia Friederike Slawik, b. Schwarzmann, who lived apart from her husband. Therefore, the illegitimate child was given the mother's maiden name. His father was field war commissioner Johann Hebra, a civil servant with the rank of officer, whose father, Johann Hebra (the elder), came from the Odenwald .

Ferdinand's parents married after Aloysia became a widow in 1830. But she died in 1833. At the age of 24, Johann Hebra adopted his son on September 12, 1840, when he had come of age. Father and son had a good relationship, as the two lived together from 1838 and lived in the family unit even after Hebra's marriage to Johanna Nepomucena, daughter of the Imperial and Royal Court Secretary Hermann von Huze.

Medical activity

Hebra grave in the Hernals cemetery

As a young doctor who received his doctorate on January 26, 1841, Hebra, as he now officially wrote himself, had to look after patients with " scabies " as part of his training in the department of internal medicine . This activity had the lowest reputation among doctors at the time and was traditionally pushed off to the youngest colleagues. At that time there was no dermatology per se, the symptoms of the skin diseases were also treated by internists . But Hebra developed a great interest in skin diseases, and thanks to his systematic-morphological orientation, it is thanks to him that today dermatology exists as an independent medical discipline.

At the Vienna General Hospital, he was the first full professor of dermatology in Austria to take over the department for skin diseases at the age of 29 and developed new terminology and new forms of therapy. He proved that the scabies pathogen is a parasite . He also invented the water bed for the prophylaxis or treatment of decubital ulcers . He became famous for his "Atlas of Skin Diseases" (1856, illustrated by Anton Elfinger ) and the "Textbook of Skin Diseases" (1878, together with Moritz Kaposi ). Heinrich Auspitz and Achille Breda (1850-1934), who received his doctorate in 1874 and became the first modern dermatologist and syphilis researcher in Padua, were among his students . Hebra was President of the Society of Doctors in Vienna from 1879 until his death .

Marriage and offspring

He and his wife Johanna had seven children. His son Hans von Hebra later also became a professor of dermatology in Vienna. Another son fell in Königgrätz , and a daughter later married Hebra's younger friend, colleague and successor, Professor Moritz Kaposi .

Awards

Hebra received many awards for his achievements as a doctor and was knighted by the Austrian Emperor in 1877 as the "Knight of Hebra", although his illegitimate birth did not prove to be an obstacle. In 1873 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

His honorary grave is in the Hernalser Friedhof (group AR, number 34) in Vienna. The Hebragasse in Vienna's 9th district Alsergrund is named after him since 1886 (except in the years 1938 to 1945, when it as an extension of Albertgasse was performed).

literature

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand von Hebra  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Holubar: Hebra, Ferdinand Karl Franz. 2005, p. 542.
  2. Loris Premuda: The medical relations between Vienna and Padua during the 19th century. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 13, 1995, pp. 341-350; here: p. 342.
  3. Hubert Pehamberger , Main Lecture Dermatology and Venereology, SS 2006, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
  4. Wolfgang U. Eckart : History of Medicine. Springer, 1990, p. 211.
  5. Loris Premuda: The medical relations between Vienna and Padua during the 19th century. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 13, 1995, pp. 341-350; here: p. 348 f.
  6. ^ Doctors Lexicon. Springer, Heidelberg 2006