Franz Gesellius

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Franz Gesellius (born September 8, 1840 in Malchin ( Mecklenburg ), † March 24, 1900 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German doctor and journalist.

Life

Gesellius' father was a general practitioner in Neubrandenburg . After graduating from high school, he himself studied medicine in Rostock , Greifswald , Berlin and Breslau from 1861 to 1864 . In 1861 he became a member of the Corps Guestfalia Greifswald . In 1862 he joined the Corps Marchia Berlin . After obtaining his doctorate in Rostock, he lived briefly in Dorpat and then went to Helsingfors, where he took the Russian pro venia practicandi exam. Eventually he settled in St. Petersburg, where he published the first Russian Meizinal calendar in 1868 in German.

As a physician, he was significantly involved in research on blood transfusions of his time, which took place a good 30 years before Karl Landsteiner's discovery of human blood groups . He also initiated, together with Oscar Hasse , a short phase (1873--1875) of experiments and research on the transfusion of lamb's blood into humans.

After this idea failed, he founded the St. Petersburg Herald in St. Petersburg in 1875 . After the initial success of the paper, he had to give up ownership in 1891 due to financial difficulties. However, he remained the newspaper's editor-in-chief until his death.

Gesellius also made a contribution to the development of the then Finnish villa town of Terijoki , where he had his permanent summer residence. He died of meningitis in March 1900 and was buried in St. Petersburg's Wolkowo Cemetery.

Awards

Fonts

  • De auxilio naturali ad dystocias solvendas . Dissertatio inauguralis gynaecologica. Wratislaviae: Fischer, April 2, 1864.
  • Capillary blood - undefibrinated - for transfusion. A new device for transfusion, both simple and depletorical . St. Petersburg: A. Münx bookstore, 1868.
  • Canalization or drainage from the standpoint of the parasite theory for St. Petersburg. A medicinal-forensic treatise in the form of a lecture . St. Petersburg: Verlag der Buchhandlung von A. Münx (C. Ricker), 1869.
  • The transfusion of blood. A historical, critical, and physiological study . With 17 woodcuts. St. Petersburg: Eduard Hoppe, 1873.
  • Most subtle report on animal blood transfusions in humans with special consideration of animal blood transfusions in humans with special consideration of the importance of these in the wounded in war . St. Petersburg, August 1874.
  • Animal blood transfusion in humans . With 3 woodcuts. St. Petersburg: Eduard Hoppe, 1874.

literature

  • Diana Daniel: The capillary blood transfusor. A history of ignorance of blood transfusion in the 19th century. Master's thesis, Humboldt University Berlin, Philosophical Faculty III, 2013 ( PDF ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Gesellius: De auxilio naturali ad dystocias solvendas. Dissertatio inauguralis gynaecologica . Wratislaviae: Fisherman, April 2, 1864.
  2. ^ Obituary by U. v. Etlinger in: Academische Monatshefte 18 (1900/01), p. 83.
  3. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 91 , 131
  4. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 10 , 347
  5. ↑ Panum, PL: For orientation in the transfusion question. In: Archives for pathological anatomy and physiology and for clinical medicine. Volume 63 (1-2), April 1875, pp. 1-91.
  6. ^ Leonard Landois: The transfusion of the blood. Attempt of a physiological justification based on own experimental investigations. With consideration of the history, the indications, the operative technique and the statistics . Leipzig: FCW Vogel, 1875.
  7. ↑ Margarete Busch: chap. Short biographies. Dr. Franz (Feodorovivc) Gesellius . In: Research on the history and culture of the Russian Germans. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 1993, p. 36.
  8. ^ Obituary by U. v. Etlinger in: Academische Monatshefte 18 (1900/01), p. 83.
personal data
SURNAME Gesellius, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Malchin ( Mecklenburg )
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1900
Place of death St. Petersburg