Franz Windscheid

Franz Bernhard Adolf Ferdinand Windscheid (born May 17, 1862 in Munich , † February 12, 1910 in Leipzig ) was a German neurologist .

Life

The Hermann-Haus , Trauma Clinic of the Sächsische Baugewerks-Berufsgenossenschaft, in Hauptstrasse 44 in Stötteritz (today Holzhäuser Strasse 72; around 1905)

The son of the legal scholar Bernhard Windscheid studied in Munich , Leipzig , Berlin and Kiel . In 1886 he passed the medical state examination and on March 7, 1887 was awarded a doctorate at the University of Leipzig. med. PhD. He then worked as an assistant in the Medical Polyclinic Institute, then at the nerve department of the Medical Polyclinic of the university. In 1891 he completed his habilitation in Leipzig and worked as a private lecturer. In 1897 he founded his own polyclinic for nervous diseases.

In 1900, Windscheid became the chief physician of the first accident nerve clinic in Germany, which opened in autumn 1900 in the then still independent Stötteritz accident nerve clinic of the Saxon construction trade association Hermann-Haus . The 40-bed clinic, named after the chairman of the trade association Hermann Storz, who had passed away before, fulfilled an exclusive rehabilitation and observation function. The trade association gave up the clinic after Stötteritz was incorporated into Leipzig. In June 1911 the house became the property of the City of Leipzig and no longer accepted any accident sufferers. In March 1901 Windscheid was appointed associate professor.

Franz Windscheid made particular contributions in the field of trauma medicine. On the basis of individual cases and in summary reports, he published several papers on the nervous diseases caused by accidents and their treatment. He also campaigned for changes to the law that included compensation for those injured in accidents.

Not yet 48 years old, Windscheid succumbed to a serious bowel disease.

Fonts

• The use of electricity in medical practice (Medical Library for Practical Doctors, No. 19–21), CG Naumann, Leipzig 1893.
• The diagnosis and therapy of headache. Marhold, Halle ad p. 1897.
• Neuropathology and Gynecology - A critical compilation of their physiological and pathological relationships . S. Karger, Berlin 1897.
• Manual of Social Medicine. Edited by Moritz Fürst u. Franz Windscheid. G. Fischer, Jena 1903-1906. Publisher's advertisement for volumes 1-2, 4-8 (volume 3 not proven / included)
  • Volume 1: Moritz Fürst. Position and duties of the doctor in public poor relief . Jena 1903
  • Volume 2: Karl Jaffé. Position and tasks of the doctor in the field of health insurance . Jena 1903
  • Volume 3: apparently no volume 3 published (no volume 3 to be found in KVK, also publisher's advertisement without volume 3)
  • Volume 4.1: Friedrich Jessen, Max Nonne, Johannes Ritter, Eduard Bernhard Albrecht Nocht & Georg Ilberg. Social nursing in hospitals: lunatic asylums, institutions for idiots and epileptics with special consideration of the doctor's activity in them. Jena 1904
  • Volume 4.2: Bernhard Nocht. Medical participation in social welfare in maritime transport. Jena 1904
  • Volume 5.1: Leopold Henius. Samaritan and rescue services. Jena 1905
  • Volume 5.2: Hans Friedheim. The military medical service. Jena 1905
  • Volume 6: Theodor Sommerfeld. The commercial doctor. Jena 1905
  • Volume 7: Siegfried Bettmann. Medical supervision of prostitutes & Gustav Schmalfuss. Position and duties of the nurse examiner . Jena 1905
  • Volume 8.1: Franz Windscheid. The doctor as an expert opinion in the field of accident and disability insurance. First department: Internal diseases with special consideration of accident nerve diseases . Jena 1905
  • Volume 8.2: Paul Sudeck. The doctor as an assessor in the field of accident and disability insurance. Second division. Surgical diseases, especially of the locomotor organs. Jena 1906

Individual evidence

1. ^ University archive Leipzig, personal files, doctorates 1810–1969, signature: Med. Fac. Prom. Bd. 3 (1885–1889).
2. ↑ Leipzig University Archives, personnel files, personnel files of professors and lecturers up to 1990, signature: PA 1664.
3. ↑ Justus Goldmann: History of Medical Emergency Care. From the Enlightenment program to systemic organization in the German Empire (1871–1914). Using the example of Berlin, Leipzig and Minden. Bielefeld, Univ., Diss., 2001, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 361-1190 , p. 341.
4. ↑ Staff news . In: Psychiatric weekly. Collective sheet for discussing all questions of the insane and practical psychiatry, including judicial. Psychiatric correspondence sheet. 3rd year 1901/1902, No. 1, March 30, 1901.

literature

• Matthias C. Angermeyer; Holger Steinberg: 200 years of psychiatry at the University of Leipzig. People and Concepts. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-540-25075-1 .
• Spamers Illustrirtes Konversations-Lexikon. Reference book for everyday use. Vol. 8 (supplements), Otto Spamer Verlag, Leipzig 1893.
• Biographical messages. In: Leopoldina. Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. H. XLVI, No. 6, June 1910, pp. 60-64 (64).

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Windscheid in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of Franz Windscheid's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1892 to winter semester 1909)