Heinrich Nicolaus Horstmann

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Heinrich Nicolaus Horstmann (born July 2, 1817 in Kassel , † September 7, 1884 in Marburg ) was a German medical officer and university professor for state medicine.

Career

Horstmann studied medicine at the University of Marburg . In 1840 he founded the (new) Corps Guestphalia Marburg . After graduating as Dr. med. on August 31, 1839, he was studying in Vienna and Paris in 1840/41 . From the summer semester of 1841 onwards he worked as an assistant doctor at the maternity hospital in Marburg, before settling down as a general practitioner in Barchfeld in 1842 . In 1847 he moved to Schmalkalden in the same position . In 1850 he was appointed physician and official surgeon for the office of Herrenbreitungen . In 1853 he was transferred to Marburg in the same position. He completed his habilitation in Marburg in 1854 for state medicine customers. In 1867 he was appointed to the medical council , on June 24, 1869, he was finally appointed as an associate professor at the University of Marburg and then appointed to the district physicist. During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71 he was the doctor in charge of the reserve hospital in Marburg. As part of his university teaching duties, he read on Medicina publica for doctors and on Medicina forensis for lawyers. He was 66 years old.

Others

Horstmann was a Freemason , initially in the Gießen lodge Ludewig zur Treue ; His address on the occasion of the 50th anniversary has been handed down from this time. He was one of the re-founders of the Marburg Masonic Lodge Marc Aurel zum Flammenden Stern and was at times its master of the chair .

The painting archive of the Hessen Kassel Museum Landscape keeps both a child's portrait (with both siblings) and a picture as a young man. Both are painted in oil on canvas by Georg Sömmer .

literature

  • Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis . The academic teachers of Philipps University from 1527 to 1910. Ed. Franz Gundlach. Marburg 1927, p. 260.
  • Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of all times and peoples [...]. Edited by August Hirsch , Vienna and Leipzig 1884–1888, Vol. III, p. 283.
  • Helmut Keiler: Masonic Documentation Marburg , Gießen 1983 (Marburg University Library)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5664, p. 287 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 98/1.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: De placenta praevia .
  4. ↑ thesis: De fissuris in cranio newborn congenitis .
  5. ↑ Bauhütte. Journal for German Freemasonry 10 (1867), pp. 201–203. ( Digitized version )
  6. ↑ Proof with reproduction
  7. ↑ Proof with reproduction
personal data
SURNAME Horstmann, Heinrich Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horstmann, Heinrich Nicolaus Johann (full name); Horstmann, Heinrich (common name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1884
Place of death Marburg