Georg Florschütz (physician)

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Georg Florschütz

Johann Georg Karl Jacob Florschütz (born February 1, 1859 in Königsberg in Bavaria , † April 18, 1940 in Gotha ) was a German physician. He is considered the founder of German life insurance medicine.

Life

Tomb in the main cemetery in Gotha

Georg Florschütz was the son of a later head forester in Weidach near Coburg and attended grammar school in Coburg. He then studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg and Berlin from 1879 to 1884. In Würzburg he became a member of the Corps Bavaria in 1880 . After graduating as Dr. med. in 1884 he worked from 1885 to 1888 as an assistant doctor at the Deaconess Hospital Bethanien . From 1888 to 1893 he was physicist for the Tonna district .

From 1893 until his retirement, Florschütz was chief physician at Gothaer Lebensversicherungsbank . Together with the actuary Johannes Karup , he carried out medical-statistical studies, which were decisive for the further development of the statistical principles of life insurance. He worked at the Eulenberg'schen Realencyklopädie.

In his free time, he researched the prehistory and early history of the Gotha region. The discoveries of his excavations on the Seeberg , at Seebergen and Wechmar gained supraregional importance. The Gotha Museum for Regional History was opened on his initiative in 1928 and owes the foundation of the prehistory and early history department to him.

Awards

Georg Florschütz was appointed professor in 1903 in recognition of his scientific work. The city of Gotha erected a reconstruction of his tomb in the grove of honor at the main cemetery in Gotha and named Florschützstraße to the old Seeberg observatory in his honor.

Fonts

• For the treatment of sarcomas of the extremities, 1883
• The Relationship of Doctors to Life Insurance Companies, 1894
• From the practice of Gothaer Lebensversicherungsbank: Insurance statistics and medicine, 1902 (together with Robert Gollmer, Wilhelm Karup)
• Reports and negotiations of the 4th International Congress for Insurance Medicine in Berlin from September 10th to 15th, 1906
• Mortality and causes of death in the first five years of insurance since 1904 for those insured by Gothaer Lebensversicherungsbank, 1912
• From the papers of a life insurance company, 1912
• General life insurance medicine, 1914
• Health conditions of life insured persons, 1928
• From and from the prehistory of the Gothaer Land, 1908
• The prehistoric collections of the Gotha Local History Museum, 1934
• Prehistory of the Gothaisches Land, 1937

literature

• Thomas Huck: Georg Florschütz (1859 to 1940). Physician, researcher of prehistory and co-founder of the Gotha Local History Museum. In: Archaeological Society in Thuringia e. V. (Ed.): 100 years "The prehistoric and early historical antiquities of Thuringia". Contributions to the history of archaeological monument preservation in Thuringia (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 59 = New excavations and finds in Thuringia. Special volume 2009). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-937517-83-4 , pp. 47-68.
• Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, Sp. 521. ( Permalink )

Web links

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

• Georg Florschütz (1859-1940) on gotha.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 138 , 453