Hans Much

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Hans Much (portrait drawing by Emil Stumpp , 1931)

Hans Much (born March  24, 1880 in Zechlin village ; †  November 28, 1932 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor , immunologist and writer .

Life

House where Hans Much was born in the village of Zechlin

Hans Much studied medicine in Marburg , Kiel , Berlin and Würzburg and received his doctorate in 1903. From 1905 he was head of department at the hygienic institute in Marburg and from 1908 senior physician at the Eppendorfer Hospital (today University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf ) in Hamburg under Hermann Lenhartz , whose daughter Marie he is Married in 1912. In 1913 Much took over the management of the Institute for Tuberculosis Research in Hamburg. In the course of his work, Much undertook research trips to Jerusalem and Asia Minor in 1913/14 . When the First World War broke out , he was interned in Egypt and, after his release, worked in the military medical service.

In 1919 Much became an associate professor for hygiene at the newly founded Hamburg University and head of the serological institute. In 1921 he became a full professor. In addition to his medical work, Much dealt intensively with architecture and art history as well as with Eastern religions, especially Buddhism . He wrote numerous medical writings as well as Low German poems and books on North German brick Gothic , local art, Buddhism and Islam .

Hans Much was a co-owner of Prof. Dr. Much's Preparations AG. Chem. Pharmacist Products (later: Prof. Dr. med. Much AG ), a pharmaceutical company that brought the drug brand Spalt-Tablette onto the market.

Since 1898 he was a member of the Corps Teutonia Marburg .

Grave and memorial for Hans Much in the forest on the outskirts of Nottensdorf

Honors

Hans Much's tomb is located in Nottensdorf , a small village in Lower Saxony. At the end of the street Am Walde is the grave and memorial that was built in 1932. The inscription "HANS MUCH 1880 - 1932" can be read on the large boulder. Around the memorial you can find field stones with the names of his Peking dogs .

The Hans-Much-Weg in Hamburg-Eppendorf is named after Much .

Works

  • Poems. Stahel'sche, Würzburg 1904
  • The science of immunity. Curt Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1911
  • What has been seen and experienced. A travel journal. Schröder & Jeve, Hamburg 1912
  • Thinking and looking. Poems by Curt Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1913
  • Disease development and disease prevention and mysterious expressions of life of the body. Curt Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1913
  • A tuberculosis research trip to Jerusalem. Carl Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1913
  • Buddha, the step from home into homelessness. Albert Müller, Zurich 1914
  • All around Jerusalem. Einhorn Verlag, Dachau approx. 1915
  • On the way to perfection. Hans Sachs, Munich 1918
  • Home culture. Montanus Verlag, Siegen / Westf. 1918
  • North German brick Gothic. Georg Westermann, Braunschweig 1919
  • En nedderdüütschen Doodendanz. Richard Hermes, Hamburg 1919
  • Child tuberculosis - its danger and control. Auer, Hamburg 1919
  • The return of the accomplished. An experience. Adolf Saal, Hamburg 1920
  • People and mosques on the Mediterranean. Einhorn Verlag, Dachau approx. 1920
  • North German Gothic sculpture. Georg Westermann, Braunschweig 1920
  • To Hus. A mouth full of flat-topped Rimels and a hand full of flat-topped Biller by Frido Witte. Richard Hermes, Hamburg 1920
  • Boro Budur. Folkwang Verlag, Hagen 1920
  • Islamic. L. Friedrichsen & Co., Hamburg 1921
  • About unspecific immunity. Curt Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1921
  • Modern biology. 2nd and 3rd lecture: Specific and non-specific stimulus therapy. Curt Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1922
  • The world of the Buddha. A high song. Carl Reissner, Dresden 1922
  • Low German Gothic handicrafts. Georg Westermann, Braunschweig 1923
  • From the meaning of the Gothic. Carl Reissner, Dresden 1923
  • Akbar. The shadow of God on earth. Einhorn Verlag, Dachau 1924
  • Aphorisms on the healing problem. Modern Biology series, Issue 9, Leipzig 1925
  • Hippocrates the Great. Hippokrates Verlag, Stuttgart 1926
  • Homeopathy. Critical aisles here and over there. Curt Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1926
  • Eternal Egypt. Carl Reissner, Dresden 1927
  • Master Ekkehart. A novel of the German soul. Carl Reissner, Dresden 1927
  • The essence of the art of healing, foundations of a philosophy of medicine. Otto Reichl, Darmstadt 1928
  • About homeopathic things. Lecture at the meeting of the International Homeopathic League. Hippokrates Verlag, Stuttgart 1929
  • Body-soul-spirit. Curt Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1931
  • Doctor and man. The life book of a researcher and helper. Carl Reissner, Dresden 1932
  • Legacy, Confessions from a Doctor and People. Carl Reissner, Dresden 1933 (posthumous)

North German brick Gothic - a home book

In the author's own words, the book is not an art-historical representation. It also distinguishes itself from homeland books that do not look out into the big wide world because it is most beautiful in their homeland. Rather, it is a racist font. The brick Gothic Norddeutschalds and religious country represents Much as largely foreign influences cleaned expression of the superiority of the Nordic-Aryan race . In digressions on sculptures he refers a few South German Master this Nordic-Aryan art with a. In the book itself, Much mostly uses the term 'brick Gothic' without adding anything, but does not even mention Gothic brick architecture outside of Northern Germany and the Order of the Land .

literature

  • For the company of Hans Much. In: Gennaro Ciaburri : The Vivisection. Carl Reissner Verlag, Dresden 1933, pp. 5-7.
  • Much, Hans, Chr., R. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1274.
  • Rainer Wirtz: Life and work of the Hamburg doctor, researcher and writer Hans Much (1880-1932) with special consideration of his writings on medical theory. Studies on the history of medicine, art and literature, vol. 26. Herzogenrath 1991
  • Stefan Wulf:  Much, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 251 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia in Marburg 1825 to 1925. Elberfeld 1925.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Much in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 166 , 783
  3. ↑ Description of the tomb on the Nottensdorf website ( Memento from October 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Much, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Zechlin village
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1932
Place of death Hamburg