Friedrich Leopold Burchard

Friedrich Leopold Burchard (born January 8, 1809 in Posen , † December 9, 1869 in Bunzlau ) was a German ophthalmologist and obstetrician , Royal Prussian medical council and local politician in Breslau .

Life

Leopold Burchard was the son of a government inspector and the younger brother of the later court advisor August Burchard, among others . Up to the age of 11, the boy, who had become a half-orphan through the early death of his mother and was brought up on a maternal basis by an older unmarried sister, was privately tutored by his own father. "[...] Under great privation" he then completed the Magdalenaeum there in Breslau . From 1828 he first attended the University of Breslau , then the Leucorea in Wittenberg and finally the University in Berlin , where he received his doctorate at Christmas on December 24, 1832 and then passed his state examination.

After the death of his father, Burchard, like his older brother, who replaced his father, settled in Breslau in 1834. Initially as an ophthalmologist, he opened a poor clinic in the house " Blauer Hirsch ".

In 1836 Burchard joined the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture , to which he would belong until the end of his life.

On January 8, 1839 Burchard married in Oels the widowed Adelheid Georgy , born Behnsch or Behnisch , who already "[...] in the first, however, he postpartum snatched" was. In 1841 he married his Bertha , daughter of the district and city judge Krause, who was formerly active in Deutsch Krone and who had already died on May 16, 1839. The couple was born on February 10, 1845 , August Albert Burchard , who later became a doctor, surgeon and medical adviser in Breslau.

Like his brother August in Breslau, Friedrich, whose first wife died in childbirth, soon turned to obstetrics. Between 1840 and 1850 he wrote a number of unpublished manuscripts on the subject, which, however, were quickly out of date and outdated by developments.

Burchard's merit lay more in his practical activities. He not only served his community for many years as a city ​​councilor , but also as a doctor in the children's hospital Hospital for the Holy Grave and Hospital for the Holy Spirit , in the St. Bernardine Hospital and in the local public welfare institution . On July 5, 1862, he was finally awarded the title of Royal Prussian Medical Council for his services . In addition, Burchard was honored with the award of the Royal Crown Order .

In 1866, the year his brother died, cholera broke out in Breslau, whereupon Leopold Burchard hurried to the hospital beds and hospitals for up to three hours a day, day and night - until his complete collapse. In 1867 he was taken from Breslau to the "[...] insane asylum in Bunzlau" with the diagnosis of " mental illness " , where "[...] a blow ended the sad existence of the brain softening sufferer".

Descendants and stumbling blocks in Hamburg

Stolperstein for Edgar Burchard (1879–1942) in front of Feldbrunnenstrasse 21 in Hamburg-Rotherbaum

Helene Julie Burchard (1877–1942), murdered with gas in Auschwitz

Burchard's son Albert , medical advisor in Breslau and ophthalmologist, fathered Friedrich Leopolds Burchard's grandson Edgar Burchard (born on July 6, 1879 in Breslau, died by suicide on July 10, 1942 in Hamburg). He married in St. Catherine's Church, Hamburg in Hamburg from Jewish family Warburg originating Helene "Ellen" who had converted to Protestantism before the wedding 1905th From 1914 to 1938 the couple lived in a house bought by Ellen's father, the banker Albert Warburg , at Feldbrunnenstraße 21 in the Rotherbaum district . The couple had four children:

• Gertrud (1906–1994), married Wenzel
• Albert Edgar (1908–1971) emigrated to Johannesburg in 1936
• Oswald (1909-1998) immigrated probably in 1931 after Cairo from
• Marie Betty (1912–1969), married Ehrhardt , emigrated in 1938 to Melbourne , Australia

At the end of 1940 / beginning of 1941, her parents were forcibly cooped up in a so-called “ Jewish house ” on Kleine Papagoyenstrasse 2 in Altona , from where both were to be deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp on July 11, 1942 with their fellow sufferers . Edgar Burchard got ahead of this and poisoned himself with veronal tablets; he died on July 10, 1942 in the Hamburg Israelite Hospital at Johnsallee 68 . However, his wife Ellen - the exact date of her death is unknown - was murdered with gas in Auschwitz.

Stolpersteine were laid in front of the house in which they had voluntarily lived from 1914 to 1938 for the married couple Edgar and Ellen Burchard .

See also:

• List of stumbling blocks in Hamburg-Rotherbaum

See also

• List of important students and teachers of the Magdalenaeum in Breslau

literature

• Annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture , Breslau: Josef Max and Comp., 1869, p. 327; Digitized via Google books

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Theodor Oelsner (Ed.): Rübezahl. The Silesian Provincial Papers seventy-fourth year. The new series, ninth year. 1870. At the same time organ for communications and reports of the Phisomatieen to Oppeln and Schweidnitz, the scientific. Verein zu Breslau, the "Silesia" zu Hamburg and the association of the Silesian gymnastics clubs , 74th year (= new series, ninth year), issue 1, Breslau: Verlag von F. Gebhardi, 1870, p. 319 and others; Digitized via Google books
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture , Breslau: Josef Max and Comp., 1869, p. 327; Digitized via Google books
3. ↑ ^{a b} Uwe Kambach (ed.): The marriages in the Schlesische Provinzialbl Blätter. A register for the years 1785-1849 , Neustadt adAisch: Verlag Degener & Co., 1994, ISBN 3-7686-2064-6 , p. 38; Transliteration by Christian Heilmann under the title From the Past to the Future (GCA) on his website gca.ch , last accessed on January 22, 2017
4. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt (Ed.) New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 17th year, part 2, Weimar: Printed and published by Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, 1841, p. 1151; Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library
5. ↑ ^{a b} August Albert Burchard: curriculum vitae , in which: course of the accessorius Willisii in the vagus. Anatomical microscopic inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate in medicine and surgery of July 23, 1867 at the medical faculty of the United Friedrichs University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle: Lipke (print), 1867, p. 29f .; Preview over google books
6. ↑ ^{a b} According to the commemorative publication for the 250th anniversary of the grammar school. St. Maria Magdalena zu Breslau is supposed to be there on Michaelmas 1863 and under the chairmanship of the government and provincial school council Scheibert the later “[...] August Albert Burchard, Dr. med., Medical Council in Breslau, “have passed their Abitur, compare ibid; Transliteration on the forum.ahnenforschung.net page , last accessed on January 22, 2017
7. ↑ Authority data entry Edgar Burchard: GND 139013105 . Access date: June 22, 2018.
8. ↑ Authority data entry Gertrud Wenzel-Burchard: GND 117295299 . Access date: June 22, 2018.
9. ↑ standard data entry Oswald Burchard: GND 1114089532 marked ".. Wroclaw, Univ, Jur Diss 1906.". Access date: June 22, 2018.
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Björn Eggert: Dr. Betty Warburg * 1881 / Hochallee 5 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude) on the page stolpersteine-hamburg.de from January 2016, operated by the State Center for Civic Education Hamburg , last accessed on January 22, 2017.