Friedrich August Röber

Friedrich August Röber (born January 22, 1765 in Dresden , † March 5, 1827 in Ilkendorf ; also Friedrich August Roeber ) was a Saxon social medicine specialist , epidemiologist and viticulture specialist , author of several publications on both medical topics and viticulture.

Friedrich August Röber

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Social doctor and epidemiologist

Röber was born the son of a Dresden trimmers . His grandfather was the silk manufacturer Johann Polycarp Bulius . He attended the Dresden Cross School and then went in 1784 to Leipzig to there theology study. Soon, however, he switched to medicine , which he completed with a doctorate in Strasbourg in 1787 under Johann Jakob Spielmann . Röber returned to Dresden, where the fever was just raging. He became a doctor for the poor and did a great job in containing it. Röber fell seriously ill with lazy fever himself, but survived the disease and retained a bilateral hearing loss, which hardly hindered him in his professional practice.

As a result, he became a city ​​physician in 1790 and a member of the electoral sanitary college in 1794 ("actual member of the Electoral Saxon sanitary college ud Leipzig economic society and the Dresden physicist residence"), albeit with a modest income. Over the next few years, Röber expanded the municipal hospital in Dresden in particular. At the time of the Napoleonic Wars, Röber not only worked as a general practitioner, but also organized medical care and hospital services in Dresden.

In 1807, Duke Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar raised him to court counselor, and he received other awards from the Austrian Emperor (gold medal of merit) and the Russian Tsar.

As his main medical work, Von der Staatsheilkunde is considered to be the state's concern for the health of its citizens from 1805, with which he became a co-founder of the state medicine customer .

Röber paid special attention to the training and examination of midwives and called for the establishment of nursing schools such as those created by Franz Anton Mai (1742–1821) in Mannheim and Heidelberg. In 1797 Röber complained about the lack of good nurses and in 1798 gave the public advice on remedial action with a range of courses in the "Dresden learned advertisements". Rescue facilities for suddenly injured people and apparent deaths were also provided in Röber's health canon.

In 1818 Röber took his leave.

Winemaker

In 1791 Röber married Christiane Auguste Linck (1767–1801), the daughter of the wealthy Leipzig lion pharmacist Johann Heinrich Linck . His financial situation enabled him to buy a vineyard property in the Lößnitz wine-growing region to the west of Dresden in 1800 : In addition to the Röbersberg , the steep-slope vineyard below today's Friedensburg in Niederlößnitz , the notch hills to the west also belonged to it. In total, Röbers winery is said to have been almost 15 hectares in size. Röber did not leave the work to the employed winegrowers alone , but worked himself into the matter himself.

After his retirement in 1818, he wanted to give momentum to the efforts of the Saxon wine-growing company, founded in 1799, to optimize viticulture, which had come to a standstill as a result of the Napoleonic War. In 1819 he anonymously published the book On the mistakes and obstacles of viticulture in Saxony , where he openly addressed the grievances. A few years later, in 1825, his main work on viticulture appeared with his attempt to provide rational guidance on viticulture and must and winemaking , in which he not only criticized, but also made practical suggestions for improvement based on his own experience, as well as government support Page requested. Then he also wrote a pamphlet on hop cultivation .

Röber lived on his Lößnitz estate since 1818, in the vineyard house on Oberen Bergstrasse / Burgstrasse , which was later converted into the Badhotel Niederlößnitz .

On a trip to meet friends on an estate in Ilkendorf near Nossen , he contracted a lung disease that led to his death within a few days.

Fonts

• Ueb. d. Lazy fever epidemic. 1788.
• Description of the epidemic fever that prevailed in Dresden from the end of the 1787th year until the summer of 1788. Johann Samuel Gerlach, Dresden 1790.
• About the roll of horses. 1794.
• The dispensatory should be generally valid.
• Ueb. d. Causes of Theurung in Saxony. 1805.
• The state's concern for the health of its citizens. 1805 ( online ).
• Brief guide to treating venereal diseases. 1818.
• anonymous: From the mistakes and obstacles of viticulture in Saxony. Walthersche Hofbuchhandlung, 1819.
• Attempt to provide a rational guide to viticulture and must and winemaking. Arnoldische Buchhandlung, Dresden, Leipzig 1825 (2nd edition 1832, online ).

literature

• Frank Andert: Hofrat Röber - doctor and viticulture enthusiast. (PDF) Part 71. In: Kötzschenbrodaer stories. January 2015, accessed January 4, 2015 (with a picture by Röber). 
• Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. BF Voigt, 1829 ( online ).
• Rudolph Zaunick : The Dresden city physician Friedrich August Röber (1765–1827), a Saxon health scientist in the successor of Johann Peter Frank. (= Acta historica Leopoldina No. 4) JA Barth, 1966.
• Volker Klimpel : Friedrich August Röber . In: Hubert Kolling (ed.): Biographical lexicon on nursing history “Who was who in nursing history” , volume seven, hpsmedia Hungen 2015, p. 226 f.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich August Röber  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina: Acta Historica Leopoldina, spending 4-5 1966
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Volker Klimpel: Friedrich August Röber . In: Hubert Kolling (ed.): Biographical lexicon on nursing history “Who was who in nursing history” , volume seven, hpsmedia Hungen 2015, p. 226 f.
3. ^ Albert Schiffner: Handbook of geography, statistics and topography of the Kingdom of Saxony. Fleischer, Leipzig 1840, p. 171 ( online ).
4. ^ Frank Andert: Hofrat Röber - doctor and viticulture enthusiast. (PDF) Part 71. In: Kötzschenbrodaer stories. January 2015, accessed January 4, 2015 .