Heinrich Eidam

Heinrich Eidam (born June 4, 1849 in Sommerhausen , † April 5, 1934 in Gunzenhausen ) was a German physician and Limes researcher .

Life

Heinrich Eidam studied medicine at the University of Erlangen , where he also received his doctorate in 1875. med. received his doctorate. During his studies in Erlangen in 1868 he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity . He settled in Gunzenhausen in 1878 as a doctor. In 1895 he became a district doctor; he built a milk kitchen to combat child mortality and a medical column (1891). In 1921 the museum of local history that he initiated was opened. In the same year he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Gunzenhausen.

Limes research

In 1879 Heinrich Eidam began excavations to research the history of the city of Gunzenhausen and its surrounding area. In the same year he founded the Society of Friends of Antiquity Gunzenhausen and became its first chairman. In 1892 he became route commissioner of the Reich Limes Commission . He looked after the Raetian Limes section from Kleinlellenfeld to the Rezat . Eidam documented the Roman forts Gunzenhausen (from 1897), Gnotzheim (from 1878), Munningen and Theilenhofen (1892 to 1895).

In 1928 he received the Wilhelm Rehlen Prize and in 1930 he received an honorary doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Würzburg for his research.

Fonts

On the mode of formation of intraperitoneal tumors in the small pelvis . Dissertation Erlangen 1875.
Excavations and finds near Gunzenhausen Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Association of Friends of Antiquity in Gunzenhausen . Nuremberg 1904.
The Munningen fort . (= The Upper German-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire, Department B, Volume 6, Fort No. 68a). Petters, Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig 1929.
The Gnotzheim fort . (= The Upper German-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire, Department B, Volume 6, Fort No. 70). Petters, Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig 1907.
Gunzenhausen fort . (= The Upper German-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire, Department B, Volume 6, Fort No. 71). Petters, Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig 1907.
Theilenhofen fort . (= The Upper German-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire, Department B, Volume 6, Fort No. 71a). Petters, Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig 1905.
Several articles in: Alt-Gunzenhausen. Contributions to the history of the city and the district . Edited by the Association for Local Lore, City and District Gunzenhausen

Individual evidence

↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 102.

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personal data
SURNAME	Eidam, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Senior Medical Council
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sommerhausen
DATE OF DEATH	April 5, 1934
Place of death	Gunzenhausen

[1] Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 102.