Friedrich Matthaei (gynecologist)

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Friedrich Matthaei (born May 6, 1865 in Valparaíso , Chile , † August 21, 1930 in Hamburg ) was a German gynecologist .

Family grave in Ohlsdorf cemetery with pillow stone for Friedrich and Frieda Matthaei

Life

The son of a Hamburg merchant, Matthaei came to Germany with his parents in 1875. After graduating from the Johanneum School of Academics, he recovered from typhoid fever in Cornwall in 1884/85 . Starting in the summer semester of 1885, he studied medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and was active in the Corps Suevia Tübingen . On December 5, 1885 recipiert , he proved to be a Consenior and Senior . After three semesters inactivated , he moved to the University of Marburg , where he in the summer semester 1887 Physikum existed. He returned to Tübingen for a few months and went to Leipzig University for the clinical part of his studies . With his corps brother Heinrich Albers-Schönberg , he worked as an MC at Corps Misnia Leipzig . When there was a dispute at the Senior Citizens' Convention in Leipzig , he and Albers-Schönberg fought a PP suite against the Corps Guestphalia Leipzig on Misnia's colors . In Leipzig he was approved and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . Misnia awarded him and Albers-Schönberg the corps loop in 1891 . In the summer of the same year he joined the infantry regiment "Kaiser Friedrich III." (6th Badisches) No. 114 in Constance as a one-year volunteer .

Trained as a gynecologist with Robert von Olshausen in Berlin, he settled in Hamburg in 1895. In 1901 he became a senior physician at the club hospital of the Patriotic Women's Hülfs Association on the Schlump . He drove the expansion of the house. When the St. Georg Hospital received a gynecological station in 1909, Matthaei was given the position of senior physician in charge. As a reserve officer , he left the Prussian army in 1913 . During the First World War he served in the German Red Cross as chief physician of the hospital train T, with which he brought the wounded from Brussels to Hamburg. He completed his habilitation when the University of Hamburg was founded . In 1920 he was appointed professor . Together with the radiologist Hermann Holthusen , he devoted himself to radiation therapy for gynecological carcinomas . He died of a stroke at the age of 65 .

His second marriage was to the sculptor Frieda Mitscherlich (1880–1970), daughter of the surgeon Gustav Alfred Mitscherlich and sister of Eilhard Alfred Mitscherlich .

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The grave sculpture created by Frieda Mitscherlich-Matthaei with a pillow stone in front of it for her and Friedrich Matthaei is located at grid square AC 12 ( Stiller Weg west of Nordteich ) on the Matthaei family graveyard at Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg .

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b Sennewald: Friedrich Matthaei for memory
  2. ↑ a b c d Hamburger Nachrichten of August 24, 1930
  3. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 129/405; 90/276.
  4. ^ A b Archives of the Corps Suevia Tübingen
  5. ↑ In 1919 , Theodor Heynemann became the first professor of gynecology at the UKE .
  6. ↑ Frieda Matthaei, GND 136994326 .
  7. ↑ Tomb created by Frieda Matthaei at the Ohlsdorf cemetery (1914)
  8. ↑ Biography and portrait of Frieda Matthaei-Mitscherlich at Frauenbiografien hamburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Matthaei, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthaei, Friedrich Karl Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Valparaíso
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1930
Place of death Hamburg