Georg von Oettingen

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Georg von Oettingen

Georg Philipp von Oettingen (* November 10th July / November 22nd  1824 greg. To Gut Wissust ( Estonian : Visusti ), Ecks municipality (Estonian: Äksi ) near Dorpat , Livonia (today Estonia ); † February 3rd July / February 16,  1916 greg. In Dorpat) was a German-Baltic medic, surgeon and ophthalmologist . He was rector of the University of Dorpat and mayor of Dorpat.

family

He came from an old, originally from Westphalia originating noble family and was the son of the landowner Alexander von Oettingen (1798-1846), Livonian country marshal and district administrator , and Helene von Knorring (1793-1863).

Oettingen married Marie von Seidlitz on December 16, 1854 (born April 11, 1832 in Saint Petersburg , † December 3, 1903 in Obersasbach , Ortenaukreis , Baden ), the daughter of the Imperial Russian Real State Councilor Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. hc Karl von Seidlitz , landowner on the Waetz estates in Estonia as well as Meyershof and Unnipicht in Livonia , and Marie Weltzien (from Russian nobility). This marriage ended in divorce.

His second marriage was on July 14, 1875 in Dorpat Dorothea Baronesse von Wrangell (born February 16, 1847 in Reval , Estonia, † March 4, 1916 in Reval), the daughter of the Imperial Russian Lieutenant General Georg Baron von Wrangell (House Ruil, Estonia) and Karoline von Schwebs .

His two brothers, the physicist Arthur (1836–1920) and the theologian Alexander von Oettingen (1827–1905), also worked at the University of Dorpat. Three other brothers, August Georg Friedrich (1823–1908), Nicolai Conrad Peter (1826–1876) and Eduard Reinhold (1829–1919), were active in national politics in Livonia. His son Herbert (1874–1946) was a pastor and a member of the Confessing Church . His son Wolfgang (1859–1943) was an art historian and director of the Goethe National Museum and Goethe Schiller Archive in Weimar.

Life

Oettingen studied law at the University of Dorpat from 1841 , but switched to medicine in the same year. In 1848 he received his doctorate with the thesis De ratione, qua calomelas mutetur in tractu intestinali ( On the changes in mercury chloride in the digestive tract ). While waiting for an international passport, he worked in Riga as head of the cholera hospital and the surgical department of the city hospital. Study visits followed from 1850 to 1853. a. in Vienna , Paris , London , Edinburgh , Prague and Berlin . From 1853 he practiced as a doctor in St. Petersburg before he completed his habilitation in Dorpat in 1854 with a thesis on star operations ( Observationes quaedam de cataracte operatione extractionis ope instituenda ). In 1856 he was appointed head of the university clinic, which he had been provisionally managing for a year. In 1857 he was appointed full professor of surgery. In 1871 ophthalmology, Oettingen's specialty, was separated from the professorship for surgery and Oettingen was given the new chair. He was also vice rector of the university from 1859 to 1866, dean of the medical faculty in 1866 and finally rector from 1868 to 1876. His retirement took place in 1879. From 1878 to 1898 he was city head of Dorpat. Wilhelm Ostwald wrote about him: “G. von Öttingen had been one of the first electoral rectors. He led a tight regiment and contained all too explosive expressions of the overflowing lust for young people with prison penalties. One of his victims, thirsty for revenge, had written the quote from H. Heine's Harzreise about Göttingen on the wall of his cell: 'G. You can best look at Öttingen with your back. ' The rector thought the joke was good and let the inscription stand; for many years it was shown to voluntary and involuntary visitors to the detention center. "

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In the period between 1856 and 1858, Oettingen, together with Hermann Guido von Samson Himmelstjerna (1809–1868) and a large staff of students and doctors, carried out a statistical study of over 656,000 inhabitants on the number of blind and eye-sick people in Livonia. He summarized his experience as a senior physician in a hospital in the Russo-Turkish War 1877–1878 in a monograph on gunshot wounds to the eye. His most important contribution to medicine is the description of a new clinical picture, the "amoloid degeneration of the conjunctiva" in an article on the ophthalmic clinic in Dorpat. Moreover Oettingen led the by Hermann von Helmholtz invented ophthalmoscope into Livonia.

Awards

Publications (selection)

literature

  • Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of All Times and Nations , Vol. 4 (3rd ed. 1962), p. 415.
  • Imma Saenger: Georg Philipp von Oettingen, a Baltic doctor and politician , Med. Diss. FU Berlin 1965.
  • Toomas Pung: The family of scientists v. Oettingen , in: Germans in the Tsarist Empire and Russians in Germany , ed. v. Ingrid Kästner and Regine Pfrepper (= German-Russian relations in medicine and natural sciences, Vol. 12), Aachen 2005, pp. 359–380, on Georg von Oettingen here pp. 361–366.
  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses, vol. XII, p. 366, vol. 64 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 1977, ISSN  0435-2408 .
  • Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 6, p. 410; Vol. 19, p. 477.
  • Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Georg von Oettingen. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Entry in the burial register of the university community in Dorpat (Estonian: Tartu ülikooli kogudus)
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the Baltic knighthoods, part Estonia III, Görlitz: CA Starke [1935], p. 254
  3. ^ Wilhelm Ostwald, Lebenslinien, Vol. 1, p. 76. ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of All Times and Nations , Vol. 4 (3rd ed. 1962), p. 415.
  5. ^ Order based on the staff of the Imperial University of Dorpat 1875, p. 3

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personal data
SURNAME Oettingen, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oettingen, Georg Philipp von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic medic
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Good knowledge at Dorpat , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1916
Place of death Dorpat , Estonia