Friedrich Wilhelm Felix von Bärensprung

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Friedrich Wilhelm Felix von Bärensprung (born March 30, 1822 in Berlin , † August 26, 1864 in Kiel ) was a German dermatologist and university professor .

Life

As the son of the Lord Mayor of Berlin Friedrich von Bärensprung (1779 to 1841) and his wife Friederike Magdalene Hagemann (1795 to 1872), Friedrich Wilhelm Felix von Bärensprung attended the Kölln high school . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine and natural science at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the Friedrichs-Universität Halle from 1840 . 1843 Dr. med. with a doctorate , he traveled to Prague to study pathological anatomy . Bärensprung became an assistant for internal medicine in Halle in 1845. A year later he passed the state examination for obstetrics . In 1847 he became a general practitioner . In 1848 he completed his habilitation in Halle, where he had already worked as an assistant to the pathologist Peter Krukenberg with entomology and dermatology. As a private lecturer , he gave lectures . In the same year he went on an educational trip to Upper Silesia . In 1850 he married Marie Bluhme (1826–1907), daughter of the lawyer Friedrich Bluhme, in Bonn .

In the years 1850 to 1853 he worked again as a general practitioner in Halle. His private clinic was well received by the people. He was then appointed to the Berlin Charité as the head physician in the syphilis department . When several cholera and typhoid epidemics broke out in Halle , von Bärensprung took care of the residents.

The University of Berlin appointed von Bärensprung as associate professor in 1857 . During this time he also founded skin disease departments at the Charité. The following year, he received a call of the University of Tartu , which he declined.

Bärensprung tried to further develop the principle of syphilidation . At the Charité he therefore infected women with syphilis as part of a medical experiment, which the professors' catalog of the University of Halle classifies as “ethically more than just questionable”. With this study, von Bärensprung was able to contribute to the differentiated diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases. He founded the duality theory of syphilis. The fact that he refused mercury therapy for syphilis resulted in a conflict. He did a great job in dermatology; however, it has meanwhile been proven that von Bärensprung's healing methods were wrong, i.e. that he treated his patients and himself incorrectly.

Bärensprung was a co-founder of the Berlin Entomological Journal and published work on Hemiptera in it . He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

In 1862 he fell ill with dementia paralytica, a form of neurolues . He was brought to the Hornheim (Kiel) . In June 1864 he was released because his condition had apparently improved; but on August 26, 1864, at the age of 42, he drowned himself in the Kiel Fjord .

Fonts

  • Observationes microscopicae de penitiore tumorum nonnullorum structura (dissertation; Hall 1844)
  • Contributions to the anatomy and pathology of the human skin (1848)
  • De transitu medicamentorum praesertim hydrargyri per togumenta corporis externa (1848)
  • About the consequence and course of epidemic diseases. Observations from the medical history and statistics of the city of Halle. HW Schmidt, Halle 1854 ( digitized version ).
  • Synonymic remarks. About Hemiptera. Berlin Entomological Journal 2: 79-81 (1858)
  • New and rare rhynchotes of the European fauna. Berlin Entomological Journal 2: 188-208, II. (1858)
  • New and rare rhynchotes of the European fauna. Second piece. Berlin Entomological Journal 3: 329-338 (1859)
  • The skin diseases , Ferdinand Enke, Erlangen 1859 Archives
  • Hemiptera Heteroptera Europae systematice disposita. Berlin Entomological Journal 4: 1-25 (1860)
  • About hereditary syphilis (1864)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
personal data
SURNAME Bärensprung, Friedrich Wilhelm Felix von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1864
Place of death Kiel