Heinrich Rohlfs

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Heinrich Rohlfs (born June 17, 1827 in Vegesack near Bremen , † May 5, 1898 in Wiesbaden ) was a German medic and writer .

Life

Rohlfs was the son of the doctor Gottfried Heinrich Rohlfs (1779-1860) and his wife Maria Adelheid Wernsing (1801-1859) from the Bremen port of Vegesack . His grandfather had already been a doctor here. After studying medicine, which took him to Göttingen , Berlin , Würzburg , Prague and Paris , he took part as a military doctor in the Schleswig-Holstein War of 1848–1851 . In the summer of 1851 he stayed in Paris, where he visited Heinrich Heine several times .

Rohlfs married Fanny Henriette Horn (* Vegesack March 3, 1837) in Bremen in 1862, the daughter of the Bremen lawyer Friedrich Wilhelm Horn (1806–1871) and his wife Anne Domville. The marriage remained childless. He initially worked in his father's doctor's practice in Vegesack before opening his own practice in Bremen in 1860. In the years after 1862 Rohlfs published several articles on the medicine of his time. He paid particular attention to the medical care of seafarers on merchant ships. In 1874 he gave up the practice in Bremen to go to Göttingen as a private scholar.

In 1878 he founded the German Archive for the History of Medicine and Medical Geography together with his younger brother, the Africa researcher Gerhard Rohlfs , which he edited from 1881 to 1885 on his own. In 1881 Rohlfs moved to Wiesbaden .

Fonts

  • Outlines for the Critique of Newer German Medicine. Dissertation. Munster 1851.
  • Memories of Paris in the summer of 1851 , in: Bremer Bürgerfreund from June 23 to July 10, 1853.
  • Common medicine for ship officers along with instructions on how to use the ship's pharmacies. Bremen 1856. 4th edition: Halle (Saale) 1885.
  • The solution to the Schleswig-Holstein question. Bremen 1857.
  • About the radical cure of the waterfall . Bremen 1862.
  • Memories of Heinrich Heine from 1851 . In: The Gazebo . Issue 30–31, 1862, pp. 473-475, 487-489 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • About the emancipation of medicine. Bremen 1867.
  • Medical travel letters from England and Holland 1866 and 1867. Leipzig 1868.
  • About the ship medical system of the German merchant navy . In: Monthly sheet for medical statistics and public health care (supplement to the German Clinic), No. 5, May 16, 1868 and No. 6, June 13, 1868, pp. 29–43.
  • About the spirit of the Hippocratic Medicin. In: German Archive for the History of Medicin u. medicinische Geographie , 4, 1881 (reprinted Hildesheim and New York 1971), pp. 3-61.
  • History of German Medicine. Volume 1-2: Stuttgart 1875-1880; Volume 3–4: Leipzig 1883–1885.
  • with Gerhard Rohlfs (ed.): German archive for the history of medicine and geographical medicine. 7 volumes. Leipzig 1878–1885.

literature

  • Heinz Büttelmann: Dr. Heinrich Gottfried Rohlfs 1827-1898, a forgotten, important Bremen doctor . o. O. (Bremen), o. J. (1996)

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Individual evidence

  1. Christoph von der Horst (ed.): Heine's work in the judgment of his contemporaries . Volume 10: Reviews and notes on Heine's works from 1849 to 1851 . Hamburg 2004, pp. 482-488