Francis of Chelius

Francis of Chelius

Franz Carl von Chelius (born September 6, 1821 in Heidelberg , † June 6, 1899 in Ahrweiler ) was a German surgeon.

Life

Franz Carl von Chelius was the son of the surgeon Maximilian Joseph von Chelius and his wife Anna Maria Freiin von Sensburg (1797–1867). Franz von Chelius married Marie Minet in 1850 (born March 14, 1830 in Mannheim; † January 31, 1896 in Heidelberg). They had a daughter Barbara Warinka Maria (Marinka) (1856-1949), who married Eberhard Friedrich Gustav Wilhelm von dem Bussche (1851-1937) in Dresden on June 12, 1875 and was a great-grandmother of Claus von Amsberg , Prince Consort of the Netherlands , as well as a son.

After attending grammar school in Heidelberg, he studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg from 1833–44 . After his habilitation in 1848 he became an assistant doctor and in 1852 a. Full professor at the University of Heidelberg, in 1857 he became a regular associate professor. From 1873 to 1877 he worked in Dresden. From 1877 he was head of a private clinic for surgery and gynecology in Heidelberg. In 1896 he retired to Ahrweiler due to illness.

Honors

• 1850 Knight's Cross of the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Ludwig, 1st class
• 1871 Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Baden Order of the Zähringer Löwen
• 1875 Commander Cross 2nd Class of the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous
• 1876 ​​Court Councilor of Baden
• 1879 Commander's Cross of the Mecklenburg House Order of the Wendish Crown

Publications

• De amputatione in articulo pedis . Heidelberg 1846.
• About the amputation on the ankle . Heidelberg 1846.
• About the staphyloma of the cornea . Heidelberg 1847.

literature

• August Hirsch : Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of All Times and Nations , Volume 2, Vienna / Leipzig 1885, p. 2 .
• Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Vienna 1901, p. 320 .
• Chelius, Franz von . In: Badische Biographien 5, 1906, pp. 98–99 ( digitized version ).
• Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Noble Houses , Part B, 33rd year 1941
• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / Tokyo 2012, ISBN 978-3642707612 , pp. 37-38.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of baronial houses 36th year, 1886, p. 118 .

Web links

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