Friedrich Körte (doctor)

Christoph Franz Friedrich Körte (born January 16, 1818 in Aschersleben , † February 4, 1914 in Berlin ) was a German doctor .

Life

Friedrich Körte was the son of the officer and administrative clerk Christian Körte (1786-1858). He attended school in Schulpforta and then studied medicine in Marburg (1838/39) and Berlin , a. a. with Johann Lukas Schönlein , Johannes Müller , Moritz Heinrich Romberg , Eduard Wolff , Karl von Gräfe , Johann Christian Jüngken . In 1840/41 he completed his one-year service as a military surgeon in the Guard Cuirassier Regiment , but was released after six months to continue his studies. On 6 August 1841, he was with a medical history thesis on the theory of Blutfleckenkrankeit to Dr. med. PhD. In October 1841 he passed the state examination, in 1842 he received his license to practice medicine and obstetrician .

In early 1843 he took up a position as a third assistant without a salary in the practice of Stephan Friedrich Barez (1790-1856). In 1850 he opened his own practice in Berlin. He became one of the most respected family doctors in town, and was also the family doctor for numerous prominent personalities, such as the painter Adolph von Menzel , the architect Martin Gropius and the archaeologist Ernst Curtius , the Krupp , Borsig and von Siemens families .

He was committed to the concerns of the medical profession and in 1855 was the founding chairman of the “Society for Scientific Medicine”, a predecessor of the Berlin Medical Society, which made him an honorary member in 1891, and in January 1888 he was the founding chairman of the Medical Association for the Province of Brandenburg and the City of Berlin .

Family grave Körte in Berlin-Mitte

Friedrich Körte died just three weeks after his 96th birthday on February 4, 1914 in his apartment at Hafenplatz 7 in Berlin's Friedrichsvorstadt (today's district of Berlin-Kreuzberg ), where he had lived for 42 years. He was buried in the Körte family grave in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstädtischen and Friedrichswerder parishes on Chausseestrasse .

family

He was married to Marie, geb. Thaer (1832–1898), a daughter of the doctor Andreas Ernst Thaer (1790–1837) and granddaughter of the agricultural scientist Albrecht Daniel Thaer . They had ten children and seven sons: the archaeologist Gustav Körte (1852-1917), the surgeon Werner Körte (1853-1937), the architect Friedrich Körte (1854-1934), the painter Martin Körte (1857-1929), the Lord Mayor von Königsberg Siegfried Körte (1861-1919), the engineer Christian Körte (1862-1920), the classical philologist Alfred Körte (1866-1946), and three daughters: Magdalene Körte (1856-1858), Marie Körte (1859-1863) , Margarete Körte (1864–1918),

Honors

• 1872 title of the secret medical council
• 1908 Star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves

Publications

• De purpura . Dissertation Berlin 1841 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Otto Winkelmann: Friedrich Körte (1818–1914), founding chairman of the Berlin-Brandenburg Medical Association. On the 50th anniversary of death . In: Berliner Medizin 15, 1964, pp. 649-650.
• Hinrich Wilckens: Friedrich and Werner Körte. Life and work of two Berlin doctors . Dissertation FU Berlin 1966.

Web links

• Entry in the Saxony-Anhalt Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Privy Councilor Dr. Friedrich Körte † . In: Berliner Tageblatt , May 5, 1914, morning edition, p. 5.
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 100.