Georg Heinrich Behn
Georg Heinrich Behn (born August 29, 1773 in Lübeck ; † April 23, 1855 there ) was a German physician.
Life
Behn was the third son of the director of the Katharineum in Lübeck, Friedrich Daniel Behn and his wife Catharina Margarethe, née. Käselau (1746–1806), the daughter of the wealthy Lübeck businessman Hermann Peter Käselau, was born. After attending his father's school, he studied medicine at the University of Jena from Easter 1792 , which he obtained with a doctorate in medicine. med. ended on October 6, 1795. His mother's family made it possible for him to go on extensive educational trips through Europe immediately after graduating. In October 1795 he left for Vienna via Bamberg, Regensburg and Linz, where he stayed for 10 months and a. trained in gynecology. In August 1796 he moved via Prague and Dresden to the Berlin Charité, from where he briefly returned to Lübeck in the spring of 1797 to spend two more months in Copenhagen with the internationally renowned professor of obstetrics Mathias Saxtorph (1740–1800). Then he traveled via Lübeck, Frankfurt am Main, Mainz and a short stay with Lavater in Zurich to Paris , from where he came to Lübeck via Cologne in 1798 , only to spend another year in Vienna. In 1799 he completed his educational trips and finally returned to Lübeck to live with his family.
Behn married on December 2, 1805 Johanna Elisabeth Stintzing (born December 2, 1786, died February 7, 1850), daughter of the wine merchant Georg Friedrich Stintzing and his wife Catharina Elisabeth, born. Hair man. His marriage had three children. Fanny Behn, b. 1813, married to Senator Böse in Lübeck, Emma Behn, b. 1815, married to Dr. med. Hermann Gütschow in Lübeck, and Theodor Behn (1819–1906), legal senator in Lübeck.
In Lübeck, with the approval of the city senate, Georg Heinrich Behn supported the decrepit city physician Hans Bernhard Ludwig Lembke until his death in 1803. In 1799 he carried out the first vaccination together with the Lübeck doctor Theodor Friedrich Trendelenburg . Behn obtained the necessary smallpox lymph from Jean de Carro in Vienna. He got involved in the society for the promotion of non-profit activities , in which he gave numerous lectures, also for the wider audience and u. a. conveyed the discoveries of Edward Jenner . In 1803/04 he made another trip to France via Holland. Then he resumed the practice in Lübeck and was also appointed doctor at the Lübeck orphanage . With the Battle of Lübeck in 1806 and the beginning of Lübeck's French era , Lübeck's medical profession was faced with almost insoluble problems in the field of hygiene and care for the wounded. This initially let them come together informally to give the Lübeck Council the necessary advice with one voice. In 1809, Behn was the "driving force" for the formal founding of the Medical Association of Lübeck , the oldest professional association of medical professionals in Germany that still exists today. The motto of the foundation was:
"A single person does not help, but someone who unites with many at the right hour!"
A similar burden as in 1806 arose for the Lübeck doctors in 1814, when Lübeck took in the many Hamburgers that Marshal Davoust had locked out of the Hamburg Fortress. Two doctors from Lübeck, including Christian Joachim Carstens , died of hospital fever during this time , and a third, Behn's friend Matthias Ludwig Leithoff , could only just barely be saved. Behn served the Medical Association of Lübeck for 24 years as secretary on the board and in 1847, plagued by hearing loss for a long time, was its honorary member. He wrote numerous protestations , petitions and reports on public health care in Lübeck, especially during the cholera epidemic of 1832.
In 1823 he acquired the Behnhaus , later named after him or his son , one of the most representative classicist town houses on Königstraße in Lübeck's old town, not far from St. Jakobi and Koberg .
Fonts
- Dissertatio inavguralis medica sistens cogitata quaedam de morbillis et epidemia morbillosa Ienensi. Jena 1795
- Memories of Paris initially written for doctors. Nicolai, Berlin 1799
Portraits
- Friedrich Carl Gröger , Portrait of Georg Heinrich Behn , lithograph, 403 x 299 mm
literature
- Obituary for Georg Heinrich Behn in: Neue Lübeckische Blätter dated May 13, 1855, issue No. 19, pp. 145–149
- Theodor Eschenburg (1853–1921): The Lübeck Medical Association during the first 100 years of its existence 1809-1909 , Wiesbaden 1909
- Friedrich von Rohden: From old Lübeck doctors in: Der Wagen 1960, p. 84/85
- Rüdiger Kurowski: Medical lectures in the Lübeck Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities 1789-1839: a patriotic society during the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1995 ISBN 3-7950-0463-2 , pp. 125-127
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Saxtorph, Mathias. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1287.
- ↑ online , digital portrait index, photo archive photo Marburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Behn, Georg Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1773 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1855 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |