Friedrich Erismann

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Grave monument for Friedrich Erismann in the Sihlfeld cemetery in Zurich

Friedrich Huldreich Erismann (born November 24, 1842 in Gontenschwil , † November 13, 1915 in Zurich ) was a Swiss ophthalmologist and hygienist .

biography

Erismann attended the old canton school in Aarau . From 1861 he studied medicine at the University of Zurich and became a member of the Corps Tigurinia . He moved to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Charles University in Prague , but in 1867 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. From 1867 to 1869 he made a specialist ophthalmological training in Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin. He was engaged to Marie Vögtlin for two years . In 1868 he married the Russian doctor Nadeschda Prokofjewna Suslova . In 1869 he became an ophthalmologist in St. Petersburg . From 1872 to 1874 he continued his education in hygiene. From 1874 to 1878 he was back in St. Petersburg. After participating in the Russo-Ottoman War , he settled in Moscow and devoted himself entirely to scientific work. In 1881 he became Dr. hc from Moscow University and private lecturer, 1884 full professor of hygiene at Moscow University and head of the Hygiene Institute there. Although his work was extremely beneficial and he laid the foundations for the development of scientific hygiene as an independent discipline in Russia, he was dismissed for political reasons. He returned to Switzerland and worked as a private scholar.

In 1883 his first marriage, which had broken off and had remained childless since 1878, was divorced. In 1884 Erismann married the Baltic German doctor Sophie Hasse (1846–1925), who had also completed her studies in Switzerland. From this relationship came u. a. the philosopher, experimental psychologist and physicist Theodor Paul Erismann, who taught at the University of Innsbruck from 1926 .

Political activity

Erismann joined the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland in 1870 as the first Swiss with a doctorate, according to the words of his party colleague Herman Greulich on the occasion of Erismann's abdication. From 1898 to 1901 he was a member of the Grand City Council (legislature, today municipal council ) of Zurich, at the same time he was president of the Chamber of Labor from 1899 to 1901. From 1901 to 1915 he was a member of the city ​​council (executive), responsible for health care. From 1902 to 1914 he was also a member of the Cantonal Council of the Canton of Zurich .

Honor

In Zurich- Aussersihl , Erismannstrasse and Erismannhof have been named after Friedrich Erismann since 1926 .

literature

  • Hanspeter Wick: Friedrich Huldreich Erismann (1842–1915). Russian hygienist - Zurich city council (= Zurich medical-historical treatises. No. 82). Juris, Zurich 1970 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1970).
  • Heinrich Pfandl: Criticism and not just phrases: Friedrich Huldreich Erismann and his family as an expression of a lived multiculturalism over three generations. In: Peter Deutschmann (Hrsg.): Criticism and phrase: Festschrift for Wolfgang Eismann for his 65th birthday. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7069-0457-5 , pp. 489-507.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 211 , 82
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About intoxication amblyopia .
  3. ↑ Verena E. Müller. Marie Heim-Vögtlin - the first female Swiss doctor (1845–1916). A life between tradition and new beginnings . Baden, 2008, 2nd edition. ISBN 978-3-03919-061-4 , p. 46
  4. ↑ www.stadt-zuerich.ch : Official street name directory and www.gebrueder-duerst.ch : Gang dur Alt-Züri .
personal data
SURNAME Erismann, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erismann, Friedrich Huldreich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ophthalmologist and hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Gontenschwil
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1915
Place of death Zurich