Franz von Rinecker

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Franz von Rinecker

Franz von Rinecker (born January 3, 1811 in Scheßlitz near Bamberg , † February 21, 1883 in Würzburg ) was a German doctor , university organizer and founder of the first university children's clinic.

biography

Franz von Rinecker was the son of the Bavarian lawyer Heinrich Gallus von Rinecker (1773-1852) and his wife Josephine von Stengel , daughter of the Bavarian privy councilor Stephan von Stengel .

After graduating from the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , Rinecker studied medicine in Munich from 1826 and in Würzburg from the winter semester of 1830/31. After completing his studies, he received his doctorate in Munich in 1832 and began his time as an assistant doctor there, which he continued in 1833 at the Würzburg Juliusspital. In 1834 he received his license to practice medicine . Rinecker was appointed as Lecturer in 1836 and 1837 to associate professor . A year later, King Ludwig I of Bavaria appointed him full professor of drug theory and polyclinic at the University of Würzburg , where he also gave lectures in paediatrics from 1839 .

A study trip took him to France and England in 1840/1841. In 1845/1846 he founded the Würzburg Physiological Institute with Franz von Leydig and in 1849 he was one of the founding members of the Physical-Medical Society in Würzburg . In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament .

Rinecker with his colleagues in Würzburg in 1850. Standing from left: Rudolf Virchow , Albert von Koelliker ; seated from left: Joseph von Scherer , Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau , Franz von Rinecker

In 1850, Franz von Rinecker founded the first independent university children's clinic in the world in Würzburg, which, however, was reintegrated into the medical clinic after 17 years. In the 1850s he dealt intensively with questions about the transmission path of (secondary) syphilis and in 1852 administered syphilitic material to two colleagues and a 12-year-old boy to prove the transferability from person to person, whereupon in 1854 by the public prosecutor at the Würzburg city and District court a judicial investigation against Rinecker for assault was initiated. In the second instance, Rinecker was acquitted by the State Ministry in September 1855, but at the beginning of 1856 he received a reprimand from the University Senate, which in particular condemned the conduct of such experiments on minors. In 1872 he created an independent department for dermatology in Würzburg , which was replaced by internal medicine and surgery, but which, after his death in 1883, was also reassigned to the department for internal medicine.

Rinecker, besides ophthalmology, paediatrics and medical statistics, also specialized in pharmacology and dermatology, tried, as head of the professional committee of the medical faculty, to replace the natural philosophy prevailing in medicine with a scientific basis.

Franz von Rinecker was considered an administrative genius, was not only the director of various clinics, but also several times dean of the medical faculty and rector of the University of Würzburg.

Ernst Haeckel and Franz von Leydig were among his students ; He appointed Albert von Kölliker and Rudolf Virchow to the medical faculty, Emil Kraepelin was his assistant in Würzburg.

In 1864 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Afterlife

Since 1890, the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg has been awarding the Rinecker Medal named after him to doctors and natural scientists with special ties to Würzburg.

Franz-von-Rinecker-Strasse was named after him in Munich. It is located in Munich Thalkirchen, between the Schäftlarnstraße and Am Isarkanal, where the (after Hans Rinecker named) Rinecker Proton Therapy Center (RPTC) was built.

His sister Fridericke (1808–1877) married the later Bavarian Minister of the Interior, Carl von Abel , in 1836 . The Eichstätter Bishop Franz Leopold von Leonrod (1827-1905) was one of his cousins ​​(both mothers were sisters).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Necrology of a brother of Franz von Rinecker, with mention of his grandfather, Pastoralblatt für die Erzdiözese München-Freising , No. 3, 1864; Scan from the source .
  2. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 273.
  3. ↑ Ralf Vollmuth , Gundolf Keil: Persistence and progress: The Würzburg medicine in the mirror of the centuries. A contribution to the first founding of the University of Würzburg 600 years ago. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 7-20, here: pp. 13 f.
  4. ↑ Thomas Sauer, Ralf Vollmuth : Letters from members of the Würzburg Medical Faculty in the estate of Anton Ruland. Sources on the history of medicine in the 19th century with short biographies. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 9, 1991, pp. 135-206; here: p. 166.
  5. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
  6. ^ Gundolf Keil : 150 years of the University Children's Hospital in Würzburg. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 21, 2002, pp. 37-42, here: pp. 38-41.
  7. ^ Franz von Rinecker: About the Infectiousness of Constitutional Syphilis. In: Negotiations of the Würzburg physical-medical society. Volume 3, 1852, pp. 375-397.
  8. ^ Barbara Elkeles: Syphilis, Medical Research and Humanity. News on Rinecker's trial (1854–1856). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 9, 1991, pp. 57-71.
  9. ↑ Gerald Metz: The archive of the Würzburg University Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases and its holdings. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 9, 1991, pp. 37-55, here: pp. 37 and 39.
  10. ↑ Werner E. Gerabek: Rinecker, Franz von. 2005, p. 1252.
  11. ^ Member entry by Franz von Rinecker at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 24, 2016.
  12. ^ Gundolf Keil: Rinecker and the Rinecker Medal of the Wuerzburg Medical Faculty. Translation from German by Christine Boot, In: August Heidland, Ekkehard Heidbreder (Hrsg.): Festschrift on the occasion of the award of the Rinecker Medal by the Medical Faculty of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg to Professor Dr. hc mult. Shaul G. Massry, MD Würzburg 1987, pp. 20-24.
  13. ↑ Source on the descent of Bishop Franz Leopold von Leonrod from the von Stengel family
personal data
SURNAME Rinecker, Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Scheßlitz near Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1883
Place of death Wurzburg