Friedrich Alexander Simon

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Friedrich Alexander Simon (born  August 31, 1793 in Königsberg , †  September 3, 1869 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor and author .

"Friedrich Alexander Simon", collective grave for physicians , Ohlsdorf cemetery

He came from a former Jewish family who had converted to the Christian faith , and after receiving his doctorate in March 1819 , he settled as a general practitioner in Hamburg at the University of Göttingen . In addition to his medical work there, he also worked as a medical author for the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house run by Julius Campe . His publications included in particular writings on sexually transmitted diseases as well as works that dealt critically with homeopathy going back to Samuel Hahnemann . In 1834 he founded the journal “Antihomöopathisches Archiv”, which he published until 1848.

From 1827 he was married to a woman from an Altona family.

Friedrich Alexander Simon is on the collection plate Tomb doctors of Althamburgischen Memorial Cemetery , Cemetery Ohlsdorf , recalls.

Works (selection)

  • Samuel Hahnemann, Pseudomessias medicus, the thinner or critical washing away and washing out of the medical Augean stable, called Organon der Heilkunst, for doctors and educated non-doctors. Hamburg 1830-1836
  • Public and personal precautionary measures against the East Indian vomiting or cholera morbus. Hamburg 1831
  • Spirit of homeopathy: a word of warning to sick people of all kinds. Hamburg 1833
  • An attempt at a critical history of local lust evils and their treatment from the oldest to the most recent. Hamburg 1846
  • Manual of Special Pathology and Therapy. Volume 2: Intoxications, Zoonoses and Syphilis. Erlangen 1855 (as co-author)
  • Critical history of the origin, pathology and treatment of syphilis, daughter and in turn mother of leprosy. Hamburg 1857-1860

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information according to: Joseph A. Kruse: Heines Hamburger Zeit. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1972, ISBN 3-45-504015-2 , p. 261
  2. ↑ Antihomeopathic Archives: Volume 1, 1834 , Volume 2, 1835 at Google Books

literature

personal data
SURNAME Simon, Friedrich Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1869
Place of death Hamburg