Georg Carabelli

Carabelli's lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1826

Georg Carabelli, Edler von Lunkaszprie (born December 11, 1787 (or 1788 ) in Pest , Hungarian name: Karabély György ; †  October 24, 1842 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian - Austrian dentist in Vienna and an imperial personal dentist .

Life

Carabelli tubercle on the upper left molar ( tooth 26 ); Palatal view (inside).

Georg Carabelli was the seventh child of Anthony Carabelli (1735-1791), who in Pest as a pedlar with haberdashery born worked, and Agnes Haller (exact name is not exactly clear), his second wife. His mother died when he was 2 years old, his father died two years later. The first information about the young Carabelli comes from Vienna in 1806, where he enrolled at the Vienna University as a surgery student at the age of 19 . So he was not a medical student, but a "student of a minor surgical course". Until 1814 Carabelli served as a field surgeon in the Napoleonic Wars in 1809 and 1812 with the rank of primary physician of the camp. Carabelli began his studies in the doctoral course and received his doctorate in surgery in 1815 as a member of the Medical-Surgical Joseph's Academy (Josephinum). He applied for permission to give extraordinary dental lectures and devoted himself entirely to dentistry as a follower of the French dental school. In 1821 Carabelli passed the dentistic exam in Vienna . As a dentist for the imperial family, he received permission from Emperor Franz II in 1821 to give lectures on dentistry at the University of Vienna . However, these only related to the theory; the practical training took place in his private practice. At that time, dentists had very little social standing. Carabelli married the Baroness Anna von Ludwigsdorf. The marriage resulted in two sons, Carl Heinrich Joseph and Wilhelm Georg. Carabelli died of a "general gouty stroke". This diagnosis indicates a cerebral haemorrhage .

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As the author of the first usable presentation of this subject, he is considered the founder of scientific dentistry in Austria. He was the first to describe an accessory cusp on the upper molars, which he called Tuberculus anomalus (which in Latin should have been correctly called Tuberculus anomale ). In his honor, the hump was named as Tuberculum carabelli or Carabelli hump .

During his activities as court dentist, he treated Marie-Louise of Austria (1791–1844), Duchess of Parma and Napoleon Bonaparte's second wife , as well as her son Napoleon Franz Bonaparte (1811–1832), who later became Duke of Reichstadt.

In addition, Carabelli also dealt with school dental care and is therefore one of the pioneers alongside Leonard Koecker (1785–1850), the Belgian dentist Amédée-Jules-Louis François dit Talma (AF Talma, 1792–1864) and Jonas Bruck (1813–1883) school dental care.

Honors

• Because of his merits, he received the Hungarian noble title Edler von Lunkaszprie and the appointment as court dentist.
• In 1953 the Carabelligasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after him.

Trivia

When he wanted to encourage his future successor Moriz Heider (1816–1866) to deal with dentistry, the latter is said to have replied: "A respectable person who has learned something cannot become a dentist."

Fonts

• Systematic manual of dentistry . Bd. I .: Historical overview of dentistry. Doli, Vienna 1831.
• Systematic manual of dentistry . Bd. II .: Anatomy of the mouth. With copper plates v. Carabelli's anatomy of the mouth. Braumüller u. Seidel, Vienna 1844.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Carabelli Edler von Lunkaszprie, Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 277 ( digitized version ).
• Carabelli-Lunkaszprie Georg von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 136.
• Leopold Schönbauer :  Carabelli von Lunkaszprie, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , pp. 135 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Georg Carabelli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Georg Carabelli in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vienna University, main register, Vol. XI. ad annum 1806, p. 410
2. ↑ ^{a b} György Huszár, Georg Carabelli's curriculum vitae and activity ( memento of the original from March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Tanulmányok. Comm. Hist. Artis med. (1988) 121-124, pp. 7-21. Retrieved March 25, 2017.