Heinrich Kohlrausch

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Heinrich Kohlrausch (* 1780 in Hanover , † 1826 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and Royal Prussian Secret Senior Medical Councilor .

Life

Heinrich Kohlrausch was initially Royal Hanover General Field Medic .

From 1803 he stayed in Rome , where he became the family doctor for the Humboldt family . Caroline von Humboldt wrote about him in a letter in 1803: “He is a Hanoverian [...] and despite his youth - he is 25 or 26 years old - he has tremendous experience because he worked as a doctor and surgeon in the army for several years and has therefore seen and treated the most important cases. "

When the pregnant Caroline v. In 1804, after the sudden death of her eldest son Wilhelm, Humboldt fled Rome with daughter Caroline and sick son Theodor, and Kohlrausch accompanied and looked after them on their journey back to their homeland and then on to Paris. Caroline's daughter Louise was born there, but died a few weeks later. It was not until 1805 that Kohlrausch returned from there together with Caroline v. Humboldt back to Rome.

In 1809, after serious quarrels with Alexander von Rennenkampff , Caroline v. Humboldt's friendship and he then left Rome. In Berlin, however, Wilhelm von Humboldt got him a job at the Berlin Charité in 1810 and he eventually became 'Secret Senior Medical Councilor'.

In 1815 he married Henriette Kohlrausch , née Eichmann (* July 12, 1781; † November 7, 1842), whose tomb , which is listed as a historical monument , can be found in the Old St. Nikolai Cemetery in Hanover.

Grave of Henriette Kohlrausch , née Eichmann , in the old St. Nikolai cemetery in Hanover

Kohlrausch died in 1826 of the consequences of strokes that had disabled him physically and mentally since 1824.

His widow became a companion of Queen Friederike von Hannover , whose personal physician Kohlrausch had also been.

literature

  • Jutta von Simson (eds.): Caroline von Humboldt and Christian Daniel Rauch : an exchange of letters 1811-1828 . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7861-2300-4 , pp. 392-393 .
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived or are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the current Kingdom of Hanover: compiled from the most credible writers , vol. 2 , Bremen: Schünemann, 1823, p. CLXVIII
  • German Biographical Archive

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kohlrausch, Heinrich in the database (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
  2. ↑ a b Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c Compare the inscription example, this photo - document
  4. ^ Compare Kohlrausch, Heinrich , in: Deutsche Biographie
  5. ↑ Anna von Sydow (ed.): Wilhelm and Caroline von Humboldt in their letters . 2nd Edition. tape 2 . Mittler and Son, Berlin 1907, p. 121 .
  6. ↑ Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: Nikolaikapelle and Nikolaifriedhof , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 57ff .; as well as in the middle of the addendum to volume 10.2, list of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 3ff.
personal data
SURNAME Kohlrausch, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, royal Hanoverian field physician, royal Prussian secret senior medical adviser
DATE OF BIRTH 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1826
Place of death Berlin