Heinrich Carl Alexander Pagenstecher

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Alexander Pagenstecher (Portrait of Heinrich Hasselhorst , 1848)

Heinrich Carl Alexander Pagenstecher (born July 11, 1799 in Herborn , † March 20, 1869 in Heidelberg ) was a German doctor and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

biography

Pagenstecher was the son of Ernst Erhard Cornelius Pagenstecher , professor at the Nassau High School in Herborn , and Henriette Dorothea, née Otterbein.

He attended elementary school and the Herborn pedagogy. At the age of 15 he was accepted into high school , but did not stay there for long. His childhood and youth memories from Herborn, published in 1935 in the Nassauische Annalen , paint a vivid picture of a small town in Nassau at the beginning of the 19th century, particularly under the impression of the French occupation and the revival of the national movement.

At the age of 16, Pagenstecher began studying medicine at the University of Heidelberg , where he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. As a member of the fraternity Teutonia Heidelberg (1815) and the Old Heidelberg fraternity (1816), he was in custody taken because he received a letter from Karl Ludwig Sand at the mother of a newspaper in Speyer had passed. His son Heinrich Alexander as a corps student and author of the biography in the ADB quotes specifically on the case of his father Goethe with the remark “these young people are individually very good and good; it is their connection, their friendship that ruins them. "

After study trips to Paris and Italy, he passed the Nassau medical state examination in 1820 and became a medical assistant in Nassau (Lahn) . In 1824 the Prussian state examination followed and the establishment as a doctor in Elberfeld . Pagenstecher was very active as a doctor in the Wuppertal area for the poor and needy sections of the population and became known and respected as a committed personality. He was elected to the Fifties Committee and then to the Frankfurt National Assembly for the constituency of Barmen and Elberfeld. There he belonged to the faction of the casino . In 1852 he retired in Heidelberg. However, politics did not let him go: in 1863 he was elected as a member of the Second Baden Chamber , where he held a mandate until 1866.

Works

  • De Metastasi. Dissertation Heidelberg 1819.
  • Asiatic cholera in Elberfeld from autumn 1849 to spring 1850. Elberfeld 1851.
  • The island of Mallorka. Travel sketch. Leipzig 1867.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ † 1818 as a librarian in Wiesbaden
personal data
SURNAME Pagenstecher, Heinrich Carl Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pagenstecher, Heinz Karl Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Herborn
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1869
Place of death Heidelberg