Friedrich Prinzing

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Friedrich Prinzing (born April 3, 1859 in Ulm ; † January 20, 1938 ibid) was a German doctor and medical statistician . He is considered the founder of scientific medical statistics.

Life

As the son of a pastry chef, Prinzing grew up in Ulm, attended grammar school there and studied medicine in Tübingen , Munich , Berlin and Vienna from 1877 to 1883 . In 1883 the license to practice medicine and a doctorate followed . In 1885 he settled in his hometown of Ulm as a general practitioner , where he stayed until the end of his life. In 1888 he passed the physics examination in Württemberg. From 1895 to 1929 he was a railway doctor, from 1900 to 1930 a member of the Württemberg Medical Association, 1908 medical council, from 1914 to 1918 voluntary doctor in the military, from 1916 to 1930 representative of the senior medical officer, 1932 member of the Imperial German Academy of Natural Scientists (Leopoldina) . He was also a member of the German Statistical Society , the Society for Social Medicine, Hygiene and Medical Statistics and the German Society for Racial Hygiene .

Works

Prinzing, who autodidactically familiarized himself with medical statistics using socio-statistical methods, published the first modern overview of medical statistics, the handbook of medical statistics , in 1906 . In his medical and health statistical work, an exact numerical examination of the pathological phenomena of modern society was of particular interest to him. In 1931 a second, completely revised edition of this book appeared. In addition to questions of medical statistics, he also dealt with population statistics and demographic questions, especially in connection with issues of mortality such as infant mortality . Prinzing was co-editor of the German Central Statistical Gazette .

Fonts (selection)

  • Medical Statistics Manual. G. Fischer, Jena 1906; 2nd, completely revised edition, ibid 1931.
  • The methods of medical statistics. In: Handbook of biological working methods. Berlin [u. a.]: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1924
  • The future tasks of health statistics. Karlsruhe: CF Müller Verlag, 1920
  • Epidemics Resulting from Wars. Oxford: Clarendon Press; London [u. a.]: Milford, 1916 (editor together with Harald Westergaard)
  • Medical Statistics Manual. Jena: G. Fischer Verlag, 1906
  • Illegitimate fertility in Germany. In: Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft 5: 37-46, 1902
  • Child mortality in town and country. In: Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics 75: 593-645, 1900
  • The development of child mortality in European countries. In: Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics 72: 577-635, 1899
  • Drunkenness and suicide and their mutual relationships. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1895
  • The tasks of feeding the human body in febrile states. Award-winning work, inaugural dissertation, Munich: E. Mühlthaler, 1883

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alfons Labischl and Florian Tennstedt (1985): The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of July 3, 1934. Lines and moments of development of the state and municipal health system in Germany. Part 2. Page 471. PDF
  2. ^ A b Karl Freudenberg (1929): Friedrich Prinzing on his seventieth birthday. In: Klinische Wochenschrift , Volume 8, No. 24, Page 1151. doi : 10.1007 / BF01732703
  3. ^ Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Andrew Cliff (2004): War Epidemics. An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850-2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Page 36 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  4. ^ Rüdiger vom Bruch: Prinzing, Friedrich. 2005, p. 1184.
personal data
SURNAME Prinzing, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and medical statistician
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1938
Place of death Ulm