Gerard Conrad Bernard Suringar

Gerard Conrad Bernard Suringar

Gerard Conrad Bernard Suringar also: Gerardus Conradus Bernardus Suringar (born April 8, 1802 in Lingen (Ems) , † January 12, 1874 in Leiden ) was a German physician and historian.

Life

The son of Professor Lucas Suringar had attended the Latin school and the grammar school in Lingen and in 1815 the grammar school in Leiden. On September 15, 1817, he enrolled at the University of Leiden to study medicine. His formative teachers were Sebald Justinus Brugmans , Gerard Sandifort , Joan Karel Krauss (1759–1826) and Josephus Chrysostomus Bernardus Bernard (1774–1852). On June 2, 1824 he received his doctorate in medicine with the treatise de nisu formativo ejusque erroribus and received a doctorate in philosophy on the 16th of the same month. He conducted an educational trip through Belgium, France and Germany. After obtaining his doctorate in surgery on January 26, 1826, he became a city doctor in Leiden.

After Suringar was awarded the gold medal in 1829 for answering an advertised price question, he received a recommendation from Sandifort for a professorship at the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam . The city council of Amsterdam therefore appointed him professor of medicine and surgery on January 6, 1830, which he took up on March 15, 1830 with the speech de Praeclaro, quod in sensibus integris et exercitatis est, praesidio ad medicinam discendam, faciendam et perficiendam . A year later he switched to the clinical school in Amsterdam, but remained associated with the Athenaeum as an honorary professor. He took over this office on June 1, 1831 with the speech Over het verband tusschen de geschiedenis der geneeskunde en die beschaving .

On March 11, 1843 he was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Leiden by royal resolution. His teaching position included pharmacognosy and pharmacodynamics . He took this office on January 17, 1843 with the inaugural speech de perficiendo Pharmacologiae studio . He also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1849/50 . He resigned this office with the speech de Naturae et Literarum studio in re medica conjunctissimo . Above all, he had made known about the processing of the medical history of suffering. On May 20, 1872, he was retired from his professorship by royal resolution.

Suringar became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion on February 19, 1861 , he was a member and secretary of the Special Commission Pharmacopoea Belgica and a member of the provincial medical commission in South Holland . He was also a member of various domestic and foreign learned societies. On September 14, 1831 he became a member of the Society for the Advancement of Medicine in Amsterdam, on May 18, 1833 a member of the Dutch Society of Sciences in Haarlem, on January 30, 1834 a foreign member of the Societas Medico-Chirurgica Berolinensis Hufelandiana dicta, on May 6, 1834. April 1842 member of the Zeeland Society of Sciences in Middelburg, on June 10th 1861 member of the Society of Dutch Literature in Leiden and on July 19, 1869 consultative member of the Batavian Society on Experimental Philosophy in Rotterdam.

On June 14, 1832 he married Aletta Wilhelmina ten Cate (born June 20, 1811 in Utrecht, † November 5, 1867 in Leiden), the daughter of Andries ten Cate and Anna Maria van der Vogt. Of the five children in this marriage, only one daughter, Cécile Constance Suringar, who was married to Gerrit Roorda, survived.

Works (selection)

Suringar had written numerous articles in the domestic and foreign medical journals and journals of his time. Separate editions of his work have also appeared.

• Dissertatio Medica de nisu formativo ejusque erroribus. Leiden 1824
• De Gallorum Chirurgia Observationum Sylloge. Leiden 1827
• Divorced oordeelkundige negotiating over het leerstelsel van den Franschen Geneesheer Broussais. Amsterdam 1829
• De doelmatigste inrigting van Sterflijsten ten dienste van de Geneeskunde in het algemeen, en van de Geneeskundige Staatsregeling in het bijzonder. Amsterdam 1831
• Oratio inauguralis, De praeclaro, quod in sensibus integris et exercitatis est, praesidio ad medicinam discendam, faciendam et perficiendam. Amsterdam 1830
• Over het tusschen tusschen de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde and the Beschaving. Amsterdam 1831 ( online )
• Epitome Therapiae generalis. Amsterdam 1834
• Institutio de morbis acutis sive Doctrina inflammationis et febrium. Amsterdam 1835
• Oratio de perficiendo Pharmacologiae studio. Leiden 1843
• In obitu Jacobi Cornelii Broers, Mdicinae, Chirrgiae et Atris Obstetriciae Doctoris, Medicinae Professoris in Academia Lugduno-Batava. Leiden and Amsterdam, 1847, ( online )
• Memoria Gerardi Sandifort, medicinae doctoris et in Academia Lugduno-Batava Professoris. Leiden and Amsterdam, 1848, ( online )
• Oratio de Naturae et Literarum studio in re medica conjunctissimo. Leiden and Amsterdam 1850
• De opvoeding the zintuigen. Amsterdam 1855
• Bijdragen tot de divorceis van het geneerkundig onderwijs aan de Leidsche Hoogeschool. 1860–66 ( online , various papers from the journal for medicine summarized)
• Pars suppellectilis anatomicae, sive Catalogus Speciminum pathologico-anatomicorum. Leiden 1866

literature

• August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 1887, Vol. 5, p. 282
• August Hirsch, Rudolf Virchow : Annual report on the performance and progress in the entire medicine. August Hirschwald, Berlin, 1875, 9th vol., 1st vol., Pp. 394–395
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem 1877, vol. 17, part 2, p. 1152, ( online , Dutch)
• PH Simon Thomas: SURINGAR (Gerard Conrad Bernard) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 3. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 1213–1215 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1914, reprint unchanged).
• PH Suringar: Bijzonderheden concerning het leven van Dr. GCB Suringar. In: Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde. F. van Rossen, Amsterdam, 1874. 2nd row, 10th year, 2nd department, pp. 66-93

Web link

• Gerard Conrad Bernard Suringar at the digital library of Dutch literature