Franz Dittrich (physician)

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Franz Dittrich

Franz von Dittrich (born October 16, 1815 in Nixdorf (Northern Bohemia) , † August 29, 1859 ibid) was a German physician, naturalist and honorary citizen of Erlangen .

Life

Franz Dittrich, son of the businessman Jakob Dittrich and his wife Maria Anna (née Kreibich), attended grammar school in Leitmeritz and studied medicine at the Charles University in Prague with the anatomist Joseph Hyrtl . After his promotion to Doctor of Medicine in 1841, a year of study at the University of Vienna and a further promotion to Doctor of Surgery 1842 he worked as a junior doctor at the gynecologist Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau the kk General Hospital in Prague , the Hospital of Charles University. In 1844 he took over the job as a prosector at the Pathological-Anatomical Institute. After Anton Dlauhy moved to the University of Vienna , Dittrich took over the chair for pathological anatomy from 1848 before accepting a call to the University of Erlangen as a full professor for therapy and internal clinic in 1850 . In 1854 he took over the management of the university hospital . He aimed to place academic teaching and clinical practice on the fundamentals of pathological anatomy and was thus one of the main protagonists in the implementation of scientific methodology in the medical faculty of the University of Erlangen. As an important physician, he received numerous appointments from other universities, such as Jena, Heidelberg or Prague, which he turned down. Health impaired from 1856, he withdrew from his university duties in 1858 and died a year later in his birthplace.

Awards

Franz Dittrich was born on October 15, 1850 under matriculation no. In 1607 elected member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in the Medicine Section with the academic surname Canstatt . In 1852 he received the Order of Merit from Saint Michael III. Class. With the award of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in 1855, Dittrich was raised to the personal nobility . The city ​​of Erlangen made him an honorary citizen in 1856 .

Fonts

  • About the Laennec pulmonary infarct and its relation to the disease of the pulmonary artery. Program for entry into the medical faculty of the Friedrich-Alexanders-Universität in Erlangen. Blaesing, Erlangen 1850.
  • About lung burn as a result of bronchial dilatation. Program for entry into the Royal Academic Senate of the Friedrich-Alexanders-Universität in Erlangen. Blaesing, Erlangen 1850.

literature

  • J. Gerlach: Dittrich a memorial speech. Erlangen 1859.
  • Ludwig Göhring: The honorary citizens of the city of Erlangen. In: Erlanger Heimatblätter . No. 13, 1930.
  • August Hirsch: Dittrich, Franz von. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 5, 1877, p. 267 ( digitized version )
  • Marga Lang-Welzenbach: Dittrich, Franz von. In: Christoph Friedrich, Bertold Freiherr von Haller, Andreas Jakob (Hrsg.): Erlanger Stadtlexikon. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, p. 211.
  • Otto Nitzsche: Franz von Dittrich 1815-1859. Pathological anatomist in Prague and clinician in Erlangen. An excerpt from the history of German medicine in the middle of the 19th century. Lehmann, Munich 1937.

Web links

Commons : Franz Dittrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c August Hirsch: Dittrich, Franz von. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 5, 1877, p. 267 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ a b c d Marga Lang-Welzenbach: Dittrich, Franz von. In: Christoph Friedrich, Bertold Freiherr von Haller, Andreas Jakob (Hrsg.): Erlanger Stadtlexikon. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, p. 211.
  3. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 275 (archive.org)
  4. ↑ Göhring, Ludwig: The honorary citizens of the city of Erlangen. In: Erlanger Heimatblätter. No. 13, 1930.
personal data
SURNAME Dittrich, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dittrich, Franz Ritter von (full name); Dittrich, Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, honorary citizen of Erlangen
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Nixdorf (Northern Bohemia)
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1859
Place of death Nixdorf (Northern Bohemia)