Friedrich August Benjamin Puchelt

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Friedrich August Benjamin Puchelt

Friedrich August Benjamin Puchelt (also Friedrich August Puchelt ; born April 27, 1784 in Bornsdorf ; † June 2, 1856 in Heidelberg ) was a German doctor , pathologist and university professor .

Life

Puchelt was the son of a pastor. He attended the schools in Luckau and Lübbenau from 1798 to 1804 . He then began studying medicine at the University of Leipzig . He initially completed his studies in 1808 with a very good exam, after which he got an assistant position at the university. In 1811 he was with the dissertation Observationem febris intermittentis complicatae una cum episcrisi exhibens to Dr. med. doctorate and habilitation in the same year . He started teaching as a private lecturer .

Puchelt opened a polyclinic in Leipzig in 1812 . In addition, he was a doctor for the poor in the Leipzig poor institution. From 1814 until his departure in 1824, he was also curator of the Gehler part of the Leipzig University Library . In 1815 he received a position as associate professor of pathology, in 1820 as full professor at Leipzig University.

In 1824, Puchelt accepted a call as a full professor of pathology at the University of Heidelberg . He was also appointed to the Baden court counselor and director of the Heidelberg Polyclinic . Here he made a contribution to the reorganization of medical training and strengthened the expansion of the auxiliary medical sciences. Puchelt was appointed Privy Councilor in 1838 and held the rectorate of Heidelberg University in 1828/1839 and 1850/1851 .

An eye infection that led to blindness forced Puchelt to resign in 1852.

The lawyer Ernst Sigismund Puchelt was his son.

Works (selection)

Puchelt was co-editor and regular author of the Heidelberg clinical annals . In addition, he published several monographs and translations, including:

own works
  • The venous system in its pathological conditions , Brockhaus, Leipzig 1818 (digitized version) .
  • About homeopathy , De Gruyter, Berlin 1820.
  • Contributions to medicine as science and art , Brockhaus, Leipzig 1823 (digitized) .
  • De carditide infantum commentarius, HF Hartmann , Leipzig 1824 (digitized version ) .
  • The system of Medicin shown in outline , 5 volumes, Mohr, Heidelberg 1826–1832.
  • The skin diseases in tabular form , Mohr, Heidelberg 1836 (digitized version) .
  • Oratio de prohibendis et exstinguendis, quibusdam morborum causis, Heidelbergae observatis, Heidelberg 1838 (digitized version ) .
as translator
  • Joseph Capuron (1767-1850). Treatise on the diseases of children , J. Sühring, Leipzig 1821 (digitized) (after the second edition, Paris 1820 (digitized) ).

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personal data
SURNAME Puchelt, Friedrich August Benjamin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puchelt, Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, pathologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Bornsdorf
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1856
Place of death Heidelberg