Friedrich Lange (doctor)

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Friedrich Lange

Friedrich Lange (born March 20, 1849 in Lonkorrek , Strasburg district , † May 14, 1927 in Babelsberg ) was a German surgeon and sponsor of charitable institutions.

Life

Friedrich Lange was born as the son of the district councilor and domain tenant Eduard Lange on the Lonkorrek estate near Groß Plowenz . He attended high school in Hohenstein , where he graduated from high school at Easter 1866. He studied medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg and became a member of the Königsberg fraternity, Gothia , to which he remained lifelong. The slender 17-year-old boy became a good mensurfing athlete and was given the admiringly ironic pub name "Goliath". At Easter 1868 he passed the Physikum . He voluntarily took part in the Franco-German War as a junior doctor .

Königsberg and Kiel

After the state examination, he became an assistant doctor to Karl Schönborn in Königsberg on April 1, 1872 . At the end of March 1874 he moved to Friedrich von Esmarch in Kiel as first assistant doctor . Esmarch wanted to know whether the asepsis , which had not yet been tried in the Franco-Prussian War , would prove itself in war surgery. That is why he sent Lange to the Serbian-Ottoman War as an advisory surgeon in 1876 . To his sorrow, Lange did not come to the war front , but instead acted as consiliarius in several home hospitals . He returned to Kiel at the end of 1876 with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Takovo in the rank of lieutenant colonel . He published his war experiences four years later.

new York

In 1878 he moved to New York City . He became chief surgeon at the Deutsche Hospital (New York) and Bellevue Hospital (New York) and a consultant at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital . He benefited from the fact that he spoke Yiddish . After founding his own clinic, he became famous in America as the pioneer of German surgery who introduced asepsis . He successfully operated on a hand of the pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski . During the 22 years in America, he made 32 trips to Germany. After the Easter surgeon congress in Berlin, he visited university clinics and cultivated friendships with colleagues.

In 1891 he married Adele Thiel , a woman from Königsberg , the marriage remained childless.

Homecoming

Lange never wanted to stay in America. He longed for Lonkorrek, which, as the state domain of the Crown of Prussia, was not for sale. After he had bought an equivalent estate and swapped it for Lonkorrek, he gave up his medical practice in New York in 1900 and moved to Lonkorrek. He plunged into the management of his estate and was one of the agriculture experienced officials advise. He had the old manor house torn down and replaced with a new one based on his drawings .

With the support of Adalbert Bezzenberger , he donated the Palaestra Albertina in Königsberg from his fortune . In Neumark he founded the hospital of the district of Löbau . In Bischofswerder he set up a house for the disabled . In Lonkorrek he donated a library and founded the Protestant parish. He led the church and donated to the parish priest , the parish house and land ownership .

The outbreak of the First World War interrupted peaceful and blessed rural life . When all the doctors in the Löbau district were called up, Lange felt obliged to help. The 65-year-old “country doctor” rode a horse he had bought for the home visits . For this, Lange was admired and loved by the population. In obstetrics inexperienced and on their own, put upon him the complicated births to.

Lonkorrek came to Poland through the Treaty of Versailles . He was deeply hit. After he was barely able to manage the large estate, he gave the estate to the district on the condition that 50 years after his death no tree should be felled on the property. He kept the manor house and the garden to himself.

Lange attended the surgeons' congress in Berlin at Easter 1925, slightly ailing. In early May 1927, at the age of 78, he wanted to travel to New York again. To strengthen himself for the arduous sea voyage, he went to a Babelsberg sanatorium for a few weeks . Shortly before the day of departure, he suffered a stroke and died. The funeral ceremony took place in the hall of his mansion with "tremendous" sympathy from the population . Among the many delegations, his friars were represented in full weight with banners ; The Poles had banned thugs as “weapons” .

The Albertus University held its own memorial service. The rector Johann Carl Kaiserling closed his funeral speech with the words:

"In awe we bow to our noble childhood friend and pay homage to the genius of loyalty to our home and love for people on his bier."

- JC Kaiserling

As of June 10, 2008, the Lonkorrek hospital that he founded bears his name.

Honors

  • Commander's Cross of the Takovo Order (1876)
  • Dr. iur. hc of Albertus University (1898)
  • Bust in the vestibule of the Palaestra Albertina (1929)
  • Friedrich Lange sports field on Samitter Allee in Koenigsberg

literature

  • Richard Armstedt: history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia . Reprint of the original edition, Stuttgart 1899.
  • Gustav Dencks: In memoriam Friedrich Lange . Burschenschaftliche Blätter , 76th year, issue 2, February 1961. Reprinted in Die Ostpreußische Arztfamilie , Easter circular 1962, pp. 22-24
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 229-230.
  • Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia . 3 volumes, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X
  • Jürgen Manthey : Königsberg - history of a world citizenship republic . Hanser 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1
  • Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg . Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fraternity Gothia Königsberg
  2. a b c d e f g h G. Dencks, 1961
  3. My experiences in the Serbian-Turkish war of 1876, a war-surgical sketch . Hanover 1880. ( archive.org )
  4. Central Journal for Surgery (1927)
  5. ^ Ostpreußenblatt (1970)
  6. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002. ISBN 3-88189-441-1
  7. Gustav Dencks had been Friedrich Lange's federal brother since 1893. As a surgeon, he was chief physician at the Neukölln Clinic .