Friedrich Dornblüth

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Friedrich Dornblüth

Friedrich (Carl Johann) Dornblüth (born July 31, 1825 in Plau am See , † November 15, 1902 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German physician, hygienist and non-fiction author.

Life

Friedrich Dornblüth was born in Plau in Mecklenburg in 1825 as the son of the district physician and court councilor (Albert) Ludwig Dornblüth and his wife Friedrike Wilhelmine Kock, daughter of the superintendent of the Rostock St. Mary's Church . After attending school in Parchim , he studied medicine at the universities of Rostock , Leipzig and Heidelberg from 1844 . This was followed on March 16, 1849 in Rostock, the doctorate to Dr. med. with the dissertation "On the causes of heart movement and the poisoning with digitalis" and on April 12th the license to practice medicine . During his studies in 1844 he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity Kochei and in 1847 the old Heidelberg fraternity Franconia . After completing his studies, he first worked as a military doctor in the Baden campaign and then from October 1849 to 1902 as a general practitioner in Rostock.

On March 29, 1853, Dornblüth was involved in the Rostock high treason trial along with other democrats such as Karl Türk and the brothers Julius and Moritz Wiggers . For more than three years he was in Bützower prison in pre-trial detention . In the process of attempted treason , he was finally in 1856 to three years in prison convicted based on the grace of the way to a 10-month imprisonment was converted. After his release from prison on October 24, 1857, he returned to his practice.

As a committed democrat, he was a member of the Rostock citizens' council from 1887 to 1902 and also served as its deputy chairman. In addition, he was chairman of the Association for Public Health Care and the Art Association of Rostock, Chairman of the State Electoral Association of the Liberal Party of Mecklenburg, co-founder of the General Mecklenburg Medical Association and from 1877 to 1884 editor of the Correspondenzblatt . On his 50th anniversary as a doctor on March 16, 1899, he was appointed Medical Councilor and honorary member of the Rostock Medical Association.

Dornblüth's main concern was public as well as private health care and hygiene . His successful work during the cholera epidemics in 1850 and 1859 led him to extensive research in the field of hygiene. He published numerous articles with mostly hygienic topics in specialist publications such as the yearbook for paediatrics , quarterly journals for public health care , in medical monthly journals, etc. In addition, articles that were held in a common form appeared in popular magazines such as the gazebo , Vom Fels zum Meer and the Illustrierte Frauenzeitung .

Friedrich Dornblüth had been married to Katharina Elisabeth Sophie Wetzel (1830–1883), born at Schloss Zwingenberg am Neckar as the daughter of forester Christian Friedrich Wetzel , since November 19, 1852 . The son Otto Dornblüth (1860-1922) also became a well-known doctor. He was the editor of a medical dictionary later known as the Pschyrembel .

Dornblüth stayed in Frankfurt am Main in 1902, where he wanted to spend his old age near his son who lived there, but died on November 15 after a short illness of a stroke. A street in Rostock's Kröpeliner-Tor suburb is named after the “doctor and politician” Dornblüth .

See also

  1. ^ Revolution in Mecklenburg (1848)
  2. ^ History of Rostock

Fonts (selection)

  • About the causes of heart movement and digitalis poisoning. Dissertation, Adler's heirs, Rostock 1849 ( digitized BSB Munich )
  • Causes of Cholera. Rostock 1860
  • Instructions for using the seaside pool. 1864
  • The School of Health: Medical Instruction for Family and Home. Baensch, Leipzig 1870 ( Google Books )
  • Chronic tobacco poisoning. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1877
  • The scoliosis. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1879
  • The school of health: classic body care. 1883
  • The health care of school children: For parents and educators. Stuttgart 1892, Reprint: Forgotten Books, ISBN 978-0-282-69873-7 ( archive.org )
  • Hygiene of gymnastics. 1896
  • numerous articles in the gazebo such as: hardening, doctors and the public, is cycling healthy? Our bed, the secret drug against drinking, dangers in handling petroleum and related substances, the dangers of consuming milk and how to defend yourself, how should one eat?

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2204 .
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1929, pp. 258-259.
  • Julius Leopold Pagel (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1901, Sp. 413–414 ( Zeno.org )
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 216-217.

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Dornblüth  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollment in the Rostock matriculation portal : Rectorate year 1843/1844, No. 37
  2. ↑ Friedrich Dornblüth. Biography at Lexikus-Verlag after: Health. Hygienic and health technology magazine. 27th year, 1902.
  3. ↑ A search on Wikisource reveals about 60 articles in the gazebo .
personal data
SURNAME Dornblüth, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dornblüth, Friedrich Carl Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, hygienist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Plau am See
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1902
Place of death Frankfurt am Main