Georg Klett

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Georg Klett

Georg August Eberhard Klett (born  July 1, 1797 in Erbach im Odenwald , †  May 2, 1855 in Heilbronn ) was a German doctor . In 1828 he carried out the first documented successful blood transfusions in Germany.

Life

Georg Klett was born in 1797 as the son of the doctor Christian Johann Klett and his wife Elisabetha. Kornacher born. He studied together with his brother August Klett in Tübingen. After studying medicine he received in 1823 under the presidency of Ferdinand Gottlieb Gmelin with a thesis on stomach ulcers , the promotion at the University of Tuebingen . After passing his medical examination in September of the same year, he took over the position of city ​​doctor in Heilbronn, like his father had done before . From 1838/1839 he also taught physiology at the city's surgical college . From 1845 he acted as senior medical officer.

On January 17, 1828, in Heilbronn, together with the chief surgeon and obstetrician Ernst Schägle (1797–1841), the 41-year-old wine gardener Grethe Drautz, who was in a threatening condition after losing blood as a result of a miscarriage , successfully transferred her blood Husband before. Schrägle allowed to under the guidance Kletts the husband bled , the blood began in a small bowl, which was in a container filled with lukewarm water vessel, and then injected it with a pewter syringe into the arm vein of women. In this way, at least two ounces , about 60 milliliters , got into the bloodstream in several steps . According to Klett's report, the patient opened her previously closed eyes almost immediately, her pulse could be felt again, and her previously contorted face began to take on its natural expression again. After the bleeding was finally stopped, the patient treated by Klett and Schögle recovered and recovered completely. She died in 1873 more than four decades after the transfusion.

A month later, he and Schängle again carried out a blood transfusion with the husband's blood at the 30-year-old wine grower's wife Bernhardine Hofmann, who was weakened by heavy bleeding from the uterus . This patient also recovered, gave birth to five more children and did not die until 48 years later. Six years later he published a report in a medical journal about both cases, which are believed to be the first successful blood transfusions in Germany.

Georg Klett was married to the Heilbronn dean's daughter Friederike Andler from 1824. The marriage resulted in three sons and two daughters. He died in Heilbronn in 1855 of a self-diagnosed "gastric fever".

literature

  • Heike Krause-Schmidt: At the same time a new life. Georg Klett (1797–1855) . In: Christhard Schrenk (ed.): Heilbronner Köpfe II. Life pictures from two centuries. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1999, ISBN 3-928990-70-5 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives. 45), pp. 49–64

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Steinhilber: The health system in old Heilbronn, 1281–1871. Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1956 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Volume 4), p. 151
  2. ↑ Georg Klett: Historia morbi chronici ex disorganization ulcerosa ventriculi in quo magnetism animalis magnum levamen attulit. Dissertation, University of Tübingen 1823
  3. ↑ Royal Württemberg State and Government Gazette from 1823. Gottlieb Hasselbrink printer, Stuttgart 1823, p. 722 ( p. 722 in the Google book search)
  4. ↑ Annette Geisler: The first blood transfusion. Series: Heilbronner history records - Part VIII. In: Heilbronner Stadtzeitung. No. 21/2008 of October 9, 2008. Official Journal of the City of Heilbronn, p. 6, ISSN  1616-2684 , online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.2 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.heilbronn.de  
  5. ↑ Jost Benedum: History of the blood transfusion. In: Volker Kiefel: Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology: Basics - Therapy - Methodology. Fourth edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 3-64-212764-9 , pp. 4–15 (especially p. 9; online )
  6. ↑ Georg Klett: About the transfusion of blood. In: Medicinisches Correspondenz-Blatt of the Württemberg Medical Association. Volume III, No. 16 of April 18, 1834, pp. 117–120
  7. ↑ Family data of the Paul Wolfgang Merkel Family Foundation Nuremberg: Dr. med. Senior medical officer Georg August Eberhard Klett
personal data
SURNAME Klett, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klett, Georg August Eberhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Erbach (Odenwald)
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1855
Place of death Heilbronn