Franz Olberg

Franz Olberg

Franz Olberg (born October 4, 1767 in Dessau ; † May 10, 1840 ) was medical advisor and personal physician to the Princely Anhalt .

Life

Franz Olberg, son of a Dessau landowner, was a member of the Anhalt-Dessau family of Olberg . After receiving private tuition, he attended the ducal secondary school in Dessau and in 1789 moved to the University of Halle to study medicine . There Professor Meckel in particular was one of his inspirations. With his widely acclaimed dissertation De Docimasia Pulmonum Hydrostatica , written in 1791 , he obtained the degree of doctor in 1792 after defending it. Afterwards he attended the lectures of Peter Frank in Vienna and Pavia for about a year before he returned to Dessau to take up his work with the titles Hofmedikus and Hofrat .

He enjoyed the trust of Duke Franz , at his request he became a member of the Medical Commission and immediately afterwards with the title of Secret Medical Council head of the entire medical system in Anhalt-Dessau . Here he contributed as much as he could with innovations and reforms, founded the state midwifery school and a surgical seminar in Dessau. He also introduced the smallpox vaccination in Anhalt, where he found an energetic advocate in Princess Luise and was pioneering for health care throughout Germany.

He particularly excelled in the years 1813 and 1814, where, in addition to an epidemic, he also worked as a surgeon for the countless disabled people from the wars of liberation , especially those who suffered wounds in front of Leipzig . For this purpose he founded a hospital in Zerbst . The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. honored Olberg by giving him the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class awarded.

In 1832 the Duke appointed Olberg to the Chamber Council and thus also to the voting member of the Ducal Chamber Council. Since Olberg was not only active as a practicing physician, but also always made an effort to science, he enjoyed a high reputation, also across national borders. For example, the later pharmacologist Ludwig Krahmer thanked Franz Olberg in his dissertation for making a urogenital preparation available .

He was the personal physician of Duke Franz, Prince Friedrich and Duke Leopold IV.

On April 13, 1796, Olberg had married Karoline Henriette Bramigk († April 4, 1826), the daughter of the businessman Karl Friedrich Bramigk. The marriage resulted in two daughters who both entered the state of marriage.

At the time of his death, the library set up by Olberg, he died as a result of a blow , about 8000 works on the subject of medicine and related auxiliary sciences.

Works

• Contributions to the literature of leaves and their inoculation from 1768 to 1790 , Halle 1791
• De Docimasia Pulmonum Hydrostatica , Halle 1791 (dissertation); cf .: Treatise on the water sample from the lungs , Altenburg 1793, ( digitized version )

literature

• New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 35, Weimar 1842, pp. 538-540
• A. Völker: Franz Olberg (1767-1840). A pro-memoria on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the death of the Anhalt-Dessau local doctor. In: Journal for the entire internal medicine and its border areas (45) , 1990, ISSN  0044-2542

Web links

• State Main Archives Saxony-Anhalt , DE, Z 44, A 10 No. 201 Correspondence of Prince Leopold III. Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau with the Councilor Dr. Olberg, 1792-1799

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Faces of Anhalt - Portraits of People and Landscapes, special exhibition of the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau ( PDF ( Memento des Originals from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) 
2. ^ New general repertory of the latest domestic and foreign literature for 1833 , Leipzig 1833, p. 389
3. ↑ Wolfram Kaiser and Karl-Heinz Krosch: On the history of the medical faculty of the University of Halle in the 18th century , 1966, p. 325