Franz Ewald Bachmann
Franz Ewald Bachmann (born June 21, 1856 in Lissa near Posen , † after 1916 ) was a German physician and naturalist.
Life
Bachmann studied in Breslau with Adolf Engler and in Würzburg , where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1883. Then he went to the Cape Colony (today South Africa ). He arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on July 4, 1883, accompanied by Friedrich Wilms . While Wilms traveled on to Durban , Bachmann practiced for the next four years as a doctor in what is now the Western Cape Province , two years in Darling and the rest of the time in Hopefield . In November 1887 he traveled on board the Trojan to Natal and stayed in Pondoland for a year , where he was a representative of the German Pondoland Society . He wrote a report on the natural resources there and tried unsuccessfully to prepare a German settlement.
His first voyage was from Durban to Pietermaritzburg across the Ixopo and Umzimkulu rivers to the Clydesdale Mission. On the way back he crossed the Ibisi River near Harding , where he met the Marburg Mission, before returning to Durban by boat from Port Shepstone . His second journey began on January 15, 1888, when he and Konrad Beyrich traveled on horseback from the Marburg Mission. They traveled to Lusikisiki via Flagstaff and visited Qawukeni or Qaukeni, the kraal of the head of the Pondo people. From there they went to Egossa Forest and on to Port St. Johns . Bachmann founded the stations Lamba (also Lombaas ) at Port Grosvenor and Intsubana on the edge of Egossa forest. He made a short trip to the Mateku waterfalls on a tributary of the Umsikaba . He reached Durban in November 1888 and drove back to Germany via Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, where he arrived in January 1889. Bachmann described his experiences in the book Süd-Afrika , published in Berlin in 1901.
In 1896 Bachmann became a district doctor in Ilfeld am Harz. In 1917 he moved to Hamburg-Hamm .
plant
Natural history work
In addition to plants, he collected mushrooms, lichens and mosses as well as other natural history finds. Collections of insects, mainly beetles , which he made in Münster , Breslau and Moravia , are kept in the Museum of Natural History in Münster . The insect collections produced in the Transvaal are located in the Berlin Natural History Museum .
It is recognized in various generic names, such as Bachmannia chubutensis .
Medicinal work
Bachmann wrote about 40 medical articles. According to his theses, the inorganic natural sciences, such as physics and chemistry, should not be the basis of medicine, but biology and "evolutionary theory". Most effective remedies are "evacuating means" in the sense of humoral pathology . These ancient beliefs should be combined with modern biological and bacteriological knowledge. The essence of constitution , disposition and immunity is also explained here. Evacuating means, especially bloodletting , should receive more attention in Bachmann's opinion. The main cause of the turning away from certain social classes from conventional medicine would be the wrong orientation of the latter.
Works (selection)
- What is illness and how do we cure? (Berlin 1894)
- The three cardinal remedies of Hufeland's healing art. (Munich 1896)
- South Africa - travels, experiences and observations during a six-year stay in the Cape Colony, Natal and Pondoland. (Berlin 1901)
literature
- Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna 1901, Col. 70-71. ( Online at zeno.org )
- Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists. Volume 1, Bonn / Schenefeld 2001, ISBN 3-8311-0986-9 , p. 22.
- Hugh F. Glen, Gerrit Germishuizen (Ed.): Botanical exploration of southern Africa. 2nd ed., Strelitzia 26, South African National Biodiversity Institute , Pretoria 2010, ISBN 978-1-919976-54-9 , p. 83. ( Online at biodiversitylibrary.org )
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Franz Ewald Bachmann at the IPNI
- Bachmann in the Biographical Database of Southern African Science
- “Bachmann, Franz Ewald Theodor (1850–1937)” on jstor.org; mixed with biologists of the same name
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Frahm / Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists. Vol. 1, Bonn / Schenefeld 2001, p. 22.
- ↑ Glen / Germishuizen (ed.): Botanical exploration of southern Africa. 2nd ed., Strelitzia 26, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria 2010, p. 83.
- ↑ Virta Maharaj: Bachmannia woodii. SA National Biodiversity Institute, June 2010, accessed April 20, 2019 .
- ^ Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna 1901, Col. 70-71.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bachmann, Franz Ewald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician and natural scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lissa near Poznan |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1916 |