Heinrich Blumenthal (medical doctor)

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Heinrich Ludwig Johann Blumenthal (born March 12, 1804 in Hasenpoth , † March 10, 1881 in Yalta ) was a German-Baltic doctor and university professor.

Life

Golicyn Hospital in Moscow

Heinrich Blumenthal was born as the son of the doctor Johann Heinrich Blumenthal . He received lessons in the parish of Sackenhausen in Kurland and, after attending the grammar school in Gotha from 1821 to 1822, studied first in Jena and from 1822 to 1824 in Göttingen. He became a member of the Corps Saxonia Jena and the Curonia Goettingensis VII (1823). In 1824 he continued his studies at the University of Dorpat . Since 1825 assistant at the university clinic there, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In 1828 Blumenthal was appointed associate professor for obstetrics and later for therapy at the Kharkiv University clinic . In 1837 he was appointed inspector and senior physician at the Golicyn Hospital and in 1850 senior physician at the Imperial Foundling House in Moscow. From 1829 to 1837 Blumenthal was chairman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Council in Kharkiv. From 1843 to 1868 he was President of the Evangelical Lutheran Consistory in Moscow.

Honors

  • Honorary Guardian in the Moscow Department of the Guardianship Council (1868)
  • Real Council of State, connected with the ennoblement
  • Secret Council (1871)

Fonts

Blumenthal wrote medical and religious articles for magazines. In 1872 he translated the two-volume history of the Church of Russia from Russian into German , written by Philaret Gumilevskij .

  • Dos memorias acerca de la epidemia impropriamente llamada colera-morbo: traducidas del aleman, y publicadas de órden superior, á consecuencia del acuerdo de la Junta de Sanidad en sesion de 11 de marzo del presente año . Palmer, Havana 1832 (digitized version) . In it: pp. 9–28: Heinrich Blumenthal: Rápido bosquejo del llamado Cólera Indico cual ha dominando durante el año de 1830 en la parte oriental de la Rusia europea . ( Brief description of the so-called Indian cholera, which prevailed in the eastern part of European Russia in 1830. ) and: pp. 28–42: Estracto de una carta del Professor Rathke , fecha en Dorpat á 30 diciembre de 1830 . ( Excerpt from a letter from Professor Rathke from Dorpat dated December 30, 1830. )
  • Together with N. Anke and G. Levestamm. Communications from the field of medicine, published in association with several practical doctors in Moscow by Dr. H. Blumenthal, Dr. N. Anke, Dr. G. Levestamm . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1845 (digitized version) Review by Maximilian von Heine in: Medicinische Zeitung Russlands . St. Petersburg, 2nd year (1845), pp. 278–280 (digitized version )
  • Some medical-statistical remarks on the population of Russia. From Dr. Blumethal. Senior physician at the educational center in Moscow . In: Medicinal newspaper of Russia . St. Petersburg, 17th year (1860), pp. 7–8 (digitized version) ; Pp. 13-16 (digitized version) ; Pp. 22-24 (digitized version) ; P. 29–30 (digitized version)
  • Medical report of the foundling hospital in Moscow for the year 1859. The senior physician Dr. H. Blumenthal. In: Medicinal newspaper of Russia . St. Petersburg, 17th year (1860), pp. 113–117 (digitized) ; P. 124–125 (digitized version )
  • As translator of: Philaret. History of the Church of Russia. Frankfurt 1872, Volume I (digitized version) Volume II (digitized version)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 127/145; 65/57
  2. ↑ Dissertation: De febrium divisione succincta expositio .
  3. ↑ See also Joachim Stahnke: Sketches for the history of the Russian foundling system. Explained at the St. Petersburg House of Education. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1983 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 28).
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslist 1960, 71/153
personal data
SURNAME Blumenthal, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blumenthal, Heinrich Ludwig Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Hasenpoth
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1881
Place of death Yalta