Friedrich Mering (medical doctor)

Friedrich Mering

Signature Friedrich Mering

Friedrich Georg Mering (also Fjodor Fjodorowitsch Mering ; born March 10, 1822 in Dohna , Kingdom of Saxony ; † October 31, 1887 in Kiev , Russian Empire ) was a German doctor, pathologist and medical professor who worked in the Ukraine and was a spokesman for the Duma in Kiev.

Life

Friedrich Georg Mering was born in Dohna in the Kingdom of Saxony, attended grammar school in Dresden until 1840 and studied medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1841 , from which he graduated in 1845. 1846 emigrated to Russia at the invitation of a landowner and worked there, after his qualifications had been confirmed by an examination at the University of Kiev, initially in Poltava , where he treated the landowning families of the entire district. In addition, he worked for two years as a doctor in a hospital near Zolotonosha and from 1849 to 1851 he prepared for the doctoral examination as a prosector under the direction of Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov , with whom he remained on friendly terms , from 1849 to 1851 in Saint Petersburg's country hospital number 1 . While he was waiting for an approval Chair at the Kiev University, he worked as a doctor at the estate Kachanivka the noble marshal and millionaire Grigory Stepanovich Tarnowski ( Григорий Степанович Тарновский ) in Chernigov Governorate operates.

In the summer of 1853 he took the oath of allegiance to the Russian Empire and shortly afterwards married his wife Katherina, who came from the noble Tomara family, with whom he had three sons and two daughters. In the same year he went to Kiev as a study assessor and taught as an aspirant of medical sciences at Kiev University, where he was declared an extraordinary professor a year later. In addition, Mering opened a private medical practice in Kiev, where he provided medical care to the elite of the city and the governorate. With his high salary as a professor and an annual income of 3,500 rubles, he became the richest doctor in the Russian Empire and soon had a fortune in the millions, some of which he invested in large plots and real estate in the center of Kiev.

During the Crimean War he studied the typhus epidemic in the Southern Army in January 1856 , for which he later received the Order of St. Anne, Third Class. He later fought the typhoid epidemic in Kiev.

In 1860 Mering was ennobled and received the title of court advisor. In 1864 he was appointed State Councilor and Director of the Internal Medicine Clinic of Kiev University. From 1871 until his death in 1887 he was the speaker of the Kiev Duma. His funeral mass took place in the Lutheran Church of St. Catherine , with the Lutheran pastor as well as the Orthodox priests and rabbis taking part in a mass for the first time in Kiev. One hundred thousand Kiev citizens (out of a total population of 165,000) took part in the subsequent burial in the Askold's grave cemetery . His publications include articles on hygiene and clinical medicine.

Honors

Mering received numerous orders and honors, including the Order of St. Vladimir 2nd Class, the St. Anna Order 1st Class and the St. Stanislaus Order 1st Class.

literature

• [Lexicon of Professors at the University of Kiev.] Kiev 1884, pp. 404–408.
• L. Stieda, Art. Mering, in: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. 2nd edition 1932 vol. 4, p. 517.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Online lexicon on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe , accessed on December 22, 2015
2. ↑ Article on Friedrich Mering in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine , accessed on December 22, 2015
3. ^ Friedrich Mering in "Tours through Kiev" , accessed on December 22, 2015
4. ↑ The Germans in the History of Kiev. CV of Professor Friedrich Mering , accessed on December 22, 2015