Friedrich Jessen

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Friedrich Jessen (born May 17, 1865 in Westerhever , † April 2, 1935 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor .

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Jessen studied at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . During his studies in 1884 he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia . He was promoted to Dr. med. PhD .

In the first two decades of the 20th century he headed the so-called forest sanatorium in Davos , which was used by Thomas Mann as a location for the novel The Magic Mountain , which appeared in 1924. Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann had been treated by Jessen in 1912.

Professor Jessen on postcard from 1916

Privy Councilor Professor Dr. Friedrich Jessen, as his full title read, is widely regarded as the role model for clinic director Hofrat Behrens from the Zauberberg, who advised the protagonist of the novel to extend his stay in Davos several times. Jessen is said to have advised Thomas Mann to extend his stay because of a catarrh . From other sources of the time it emerges that Jessen did in fact repeatedly advise further treatments, according to a letter from a southern German entrepreneur. “Today I spoke to Prof J., he says that if I don't miss anything on business, I should next winter stay in the high mountains [...]. He also explained to me that if I stayed longer in one piece, I would later be protected against relapses. "

Jessen and other doctors are said to have reacted very critically to the magic mountain. In a letter from 1925, however, Mann emphasized that the similarities between Behrens and “a lung specialist known far beyond Davos” were at best “extremely superficial”. At the same time, there are numerous parallels beyond the external similarities. Jessen was active, for example, artistically, with bronze and plaster, while the fictional character Behrens painted with oil.

Jessen was Vice President of the Davos Natural Research Society .

From 1927 Jessen worked as a doctor in Hamburg.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Social nursing in hospitals. Jena 1904.
  • Pulmonary Consumption and Nervous System. Jena 1905.
  • Operative treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. 3rd edition, Leipzig 1921.
  • The prognosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. Leipzig 1925.

supporting documents

  1. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 230.
  2. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 226.
  3. ^ Frederik Jötten: Misdiagnoses in Davos | NZZ . June 9, 2012, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on May 31, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Thomas Mann dictionary of figures: Behrens, Dr. Accessed May 31, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Sana Kliniken Sommerfeld: Future through tradition, the Alpine idyll on the outskirts of Berlin; medical history walk in the 100th year of the existence of the Sana Kliniken Sommerfeld; [1914-2014] . Letterado Verl, Quedlinburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-938579-28-2 .
  6. ^ Karl Gutbrod: Chronicle Reisser 1640-1960 . Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2007.
  7. ^ Frederik Jötten: Misdiagnoses in Davos | NZZ . June 9, 2012, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on May 31, 2019]).
  8. ^ Leo Baeck Institute Archives: Thomas Mann Collection . 1921 ( archive.org [accessed May 31, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Tobias Gohlis: Thomas Mann Symposium in Davos: In search of traces, signs, deeper meaning: return to the "Magic Mountain" . In: The time . September 30, 1994, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed May 31, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Negotiations of the Swiss Society for Natural Sciences = Actes de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles = Atti della Società Elvetica di Scienze Naturali. Volume 101, 1920, p. 101. ( Online )
  11. ↑ Bernd W. Seiler: Mann, Thomas . In: Facts and Fictions. Lexicon of German-language key literature. 1900-2010. Edited by EM Rösch. 2nd half band. Stuttgart 2013, p. 432.
  12. ↑ Bündnerisches monthly newspaper . Journal of Graubünden history, regional and folklore. 1917 issue 7, p. 227. ( Online )
personal data
SURNAME Jessen, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerhever
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1935
Place of death Hamburg