Georg Philipp Holscher
Georg Philipp Holscher (born November 10, 1792 in Münder , † August 30, 1852 in Wildbad ) was a German doctor and ophthalmologist in Hanover .
Life
Georg Philipp Holscher was the son of the superintendent and later senior consistorial councilor Achaz Holscher in Hanover. From 1811 he studied medicine at the University of Göttingen , where he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . After graduating in 1815, he gained his first professional experience as a military doctor in England and France. From 1816 he worked as a doctor in his hometown of Hanover. He founded an institute for poor eye patients, became one of the founders of the municipal hospital and its first medical director.
August Dyes assisted him from 1837 to 1839 . In 1839 Holscher founded a private ophthalmological institution on Burgstrasse in Hanover. Accordingly, he became royal Hanoverian personal surgeon in 1830, court counselor in 1843 and director of the newly created medical college of the kingdom in 1847.
As an active and distinguished member of the 48 movement, he became a general of the vigilante group. On March 16, 1848, Holscher formulated The 12 wishes of the Hanoverians to the king. This political commitment was resented by some of his patients in retrospect and had a detrimental effect on the economic situation of his practice in the years that followed.
His younger corps brother and professional colleague Louis Stromeyer sketched him in his memoirs as
“A brilliant appearance, beautiful like Apollo, funny and completely inspired by the desire to please and impress. He was very dangerous to women, although he often repulsed nobler natures by his trustworthy confidentiality. "
As a specialist author, he published the Hanoverian Annals of All Medicine from 1836 to 1847 and was supported in this by his corps brother Adolf Mühry in recent years .
As a Freemason, Holscher had been a member of the Loge zur Ceder in Hanover since 1817 and there since 1830, succeeding his father, Master of the Chair . His box held a mourning box for him and set a monument for him in the garden of the box house. He was a Knight of the Guelph Order .
literature
- Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809-1899 Göttingen 2002, p. 49, No. 104
- Ernst Gurlt: Holscher, Georg Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 774-776.
- Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche biographies. Volume 2 In the old Kingdom of Hanover 1816-1866, Hanover 1914, p. 544
- Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 5, p. 153
- Herbert Mundhenke : Hanover and its hospitals. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 13 (1960), pp. 1-84
- Louis Stromeyer: Memories of a German Doctor , 2 volumes, 1875, ISBN 3-540-07659-X .
- Dirk Böttcher : HOLSCHER, Georg Philipp. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 176; online through google books
- Dirk Böttcher: Holscher, Georg Philipp. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 306.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pagel: Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of the Nineteenth Century , Berlin, Vienna 1901, Sp. 433f., Online
- ^ Stromeyer, Memories ... , Volume 1, 1875, pp. 93 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holscher, Georg Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and ophthalmologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mouths |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1852 |
| Place of death | Wildbad |