Heinrich Aloisius Driver

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Heinrich Aloisius Driver (1866)

Heinrich Aloisiusreiber ( Greek Έρικ Τράιμπερ ; * October 8, 1796 in Meiningen ; † April 26, 1882 in Athens , Greece ) was a German doctor and philhellene .

Life

Driver was the son of the Meiningen court pharmacist and studied medicine in Jena , Erlangen , Würzburg and Paris . During his studies he became a member of the original fraternity in Jena in 1816, of the Teutonia fraternity in Erlangen in 1816 and of the Old Würzburg fraternity of Germania in Würzburg in 1818 . He was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . On January 11, 1821, he boarded a ship to Greece in Livorno and reached the port of Mesolongi on January 25, 1821 . He took part in the battle for Mesolongi in 1822 and cared for the injured. In 1823 he was one of the doctors who fought in vain for the life of the English poet Lord Byron . In 1825 he became head of the military hospital in Nauplia . On June 1, 1827, Frank Abney Hastings asked him to become a ship's doctor on the Karteria and Driver accepted this invitation.

In 1833 Heinrichreiber became King Otto's personal physician . From 1835 he was a lecturer and from April 14, 1837 to July 21, 1841 professor of surgery at the medical faculty of the newly founded National and Kapodistrian University of Athens . In 1861 he was appointed general doctor and in 1864 major general ret. D. He kept a diary from January 12, 1822 to April 23, 1828 during the Revolution, which was translated into Greek in 1960.

In 1837 he built a house in Athens west of the church of Agii Asomati near today's Thiseiou subway station, but it no longer exists today. The royal palace was also to be built here, but since cholera broke out in the swampy district , these plans were rejected. Heinrich Driver took care of the sick and treated the poor for free. Later he built the villa driver in the north of Athens (Konstantinos Palaiologos 8) which is now the Cartoon Museum.

He was a corresponding member of the Medical Societies in Berlin , Paris, Madrid and Bonn.

Because of his services to the Greek medical service , a street in Athens was named after him.

Works

  • Reminiscences from Greece 1822–1828 (unpublished)
    • Greek translation: Αναμνήσεις απο την Ελλάδα 1822–1828 (1960)

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , p. 57.
  • Peter Kaupp (edit.): Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815-1819 (= treatises on student and higher education. Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89498-156-3 , p. 88.
  • Walter Leifer: Hellas in German intellectual life. 1963, p. 162.
  • Marion Maria Ruisinger : The Greek health system under King Otto (1833–1862). 1997, p. 311.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Ross : Memories from Greece. Berlin 1863, p. 21.
  2. ^ François Pouqueville : History of the rebirth of Greece , fourth volume, Heidelberg 1825, p. 22.
  3. ^ Thomas Douglas Whitcombe, Charles William James Eliot: Campaign of the Falieri and Piraeus in the Year 1827, Or, Journal of a Volunteer , 1992, pp. 12-13.
  4. ^ Evi Melas: Athens. DuMont Art Guide , Cologne 1977, pp. 209f
personal data
SURNAME Driver, Heinrich Aloisius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Τράιμπερ, Έρικ (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and philhellene
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiningen
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1882
Place of death Athens , Greece