Ferdinand von Ritgen

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Ferdinand August Maria Franz von Ritgen (born October 11, 1787 in Wulfen near Dorsten in Westphalia , † April 14, 1867 in Gießen ) was a German medical professor, medical officer, surgeon, gynecologist , obstetrician and founder of one of the first nine German obstetrics schools.

origin

He was born in 1787 as the son of Count von Merfeld's rent master Johann Philipp Ritgen (1760-1831) and Marie Louise D'Arton de Varenne (1765-1848). He still had 4 brothers and 4 sisters.

Life

He studied medicine in Munich. In 1808 he is named as a surgeon in Belecke . In 1811 he became a medical officer in Meschede and a physics councilor in Stadtberge .

In 1814 Ritgen completed his habilitation and was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Giessen . When he was appointed, Ritgen was given a vacant official apartment. For this he was obliged to teach the midwives free of charge. After 1816 he began teaching midwives and established his own midwifery school. The only staff available to him in the maternity hospital were an upper midwife, a computer and a guard. Despite the poor support, he organized the lessons for the midwives and medical students in an exemplary manner for the time. The midwives' classes were scheduled for two months, April to May and October to November. This time was divided into a theoretical and a practical part. Ritgen was of the opinion "that women of education can also deal with this subject". On September 6, 1815, he awarded the obstetrician Josepha von Siebold an honorary doctorate in childbirth. Two years later, on March 26, 1817, the daughter Charlotte von Siebold received her doctorate from Ritgen in Giessen to become a doctor of artis obstetriciae .

In 1825 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Ritgen gave his first lectures in 1836, in which, contrary to the zeitgeist of the time, he did not deny the treatability of mental illnesses. He developed the so-called Ritgen hind dam handle , which uses a certain technique to accelerate the birth of the child's head, as well as the laparelytrotomy .

From 1835 to 1841 he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . He was elected for the constituency of the city of Giessen .

In addition to his activities, he was co-editor of the magazines "Common German Journal for Obstetrics" and "Monthly Journal for Obstetrics and Gynecology" and "New Journal for Obstetrics". His sovereign, the Grand Duke Ludwig II of Hesse , paid him special recognition by elevating him to hereditary nobility on December 16, 1839.

Ferdinand von Ritgen died in Gießen in 1867 .

family

Rittgen married his first wife Clara Herold (born April 19, 1783 - December 22, 1852) on November 11, 1809 in Münster , a daughter of the garrison pharmacist Balthasar Felix Herold (1755-1800) and sister of Franz Joseph Herold . In the same year his son Hugo was born. After the death of his first wife, he married Ferdinande Wilhelmine, née Stein, in Bonn on December 21, 1853, widowed Wenckebach (born April 9, 1813 - June 20, 1906), a daughter of Professor Georg Wilhelm Stein (1773-1870). This marriage remained childless.

Fonts

  • Yearbooks of the Gießen maternity hospital , 1820–1858.
  • Handbook of Obstetrics , 1824.
  • Attempted creation of some tanks of primeval animals , 1826.
  • Attempt to divide birds naturally , 1826.
  • The highest affairs of the soul according to the law of progress , Darmstadt 1835.
  • The legal provisions of the Medicinal System of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Leske, Darmstadt 1840–1842.
  • Teaching and handbook of obstetrics for midwives , 1848.

literature

  • Jost Benedum :  Ritgen, Ferdinand August Maria Franz von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 647 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Jost Benedum †: Ritgen, Ferdinand August Maria Franz von. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1253.
  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1908, p.779f
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 312.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 718.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 218.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruppel / Groß names "August" as a nickname
  2. ^ Member entry by Ferdinand Franz Frhr. von Ritgen at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ritgen, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritgen, Ferdinand August Maria Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German professor of medicine, gynecologist and founder of one of the nine German obstetrical schools
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Wulfen near Dorsten
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1867
Place of death to water