Georg Julius Andresen

Georg Julius Andresen (born October 3, 1815 in Haselau , † 1882 in Reinbek ) was a German author , physician , hydrotherapist and founder of the Sophienbad in Reinbek.

Life

The former Sophienbad, today the Reinbek District Court

He was the son of Pastor Jürgen Andresen and Margarethe Elisabeth, née. Harboe, and studied at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , the University of Copenhagen and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , where he especially attended the lectures of Peter Krukenberg . Andresen received his doctorate in Kiel in 1839 as dr. med. & chir. and was a doctor in Barmstedt from 1839 to 1842 . Then he moved to Uetersenand opened a medical practice there, which he ran from 1842 to 1858 and passed on to his successor, the pharmacist and physician August Conrad Ludwig Block. In the same year Andresen moved to Reinbek, where he acquired three parcels of the Wildkoppel enclosure and the rights to use the old monastery springs located there. There he built the “Whey and Wasercure Institution” Sophienbad , which he named after his wife Metta Sophia, née. Bornholdt (1821–1869) named. Andresen took up the ideas of Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897) that you can keep your health with cold water and take action against gout, rheumatism and nervous disorders. He also advertised the healing properties of steam baths, cow and goat whey, gymnastics and massages. In the middle of the 19th century, Reinbek became a temporary health resort due to the Sophienbad cold water sanatorium.

Today the district court of Reinbek is located in the Sophienbad.

Works

• De exanthematibus auctumnali tempore anni 1839 Kiliae observatis eorumque causis. Dissertation . Kiel 1839.
• The doctor and his healing methods with special consideration of natural healing powers and water treatment for doctors and laypeople. Huwald, Flensburg 1857.
• The Sophienbad, dietetic nursing and hydrotherapy institute in Reinbek near Hamburg. In addition to remarks about the water treatment and its scientific justification in general . With illustration. Würger, Hamburg 1858.
• Contributions to the appreciation of the Gassmann water cures, Hamburg 1860.
• Memorandum and petition to the assembly of estates of the Duchy of Holstein regarding the establishment of a chair for natural healing methods and water cure along with critical examination of an expert opinion by the medical college . Gassmann, Hamburg 1862.

Web links

• The Sophienbad (Reinbeck stories)

Literature and Sources

• Erwin Haas: Georg Julius Andresen 1815–1882: A herald and pioneer of natural healing methods . 1950.
• Eduard Alberti : Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866. CBS von Maark, No. 43, Kiel 1867, p. 13. (digitized version)