Hermann Eberhard Friedrich Richter

Hermann Eberhard Friedrich Richter (born May 14, 1808 in Leipzig ; † May 24, 1876 in Dresden ) was a German doctor. He made himself known through his diverse medical writing activities, tried to bring about a contemporary medical reform, tried to put therapies on a scientific basis and initiated the establishment of the German Medical Association in 1872.

Life

Hermann Eberhard Friedrich Richter was the son of a businessman, studied medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1826 and passed the Rigorosum in 1830 . From 1831 he was assistant to the court councilor and personal physician Francke in Dresden , where he has since settled permanently. Graduated in 1834, he became professor of general and special therapy at the medical-surgical academy in Dresden in September 1837, as well as director of the medical outpatient clinic associated with this .

In 1849 Richter was involved in a process of high treason for alleged participation in the May uprising in Dresden and lost his professorship: in 1850 he was acquitted, but placed on waiting. In addition to his extensive, namely consultative practice, he devoted himself to literary work, most of which are printed in Carl Christian Schmidt's yearbooks of the entire Medicin , the editing of which he had taken over together with Winter from the year 1850. In addition, Richter was also active in urban affairs and participated in the efforts to reform high school teaching that had already been started in 1845, namely to give greater consideration to the natural sciences and to improve the hygienic conditions in schools, as well as in the efforts that emerged in Saxony at that time for a Reform of medical legislation and the state position of doctors.

After the establishment of the Saxon State Medical College in 1864, Richter was an eager member of it and in this capacity earned a great deal of merit in arousing the interest of doctors in the affairs of their class, initially in Saxony, and later throughout Germany. At the natural scientists 'meeting in Hanover in 1865 he pushed through the appointment of a permanent commission for medical reform, and under his influence at the natural scientists' meeting in Dresden in 1868 it was decided to form a special section for medical reform at these meetings. At the meeting of natural scientists in Leipzig in 1872 he initiated the establishment of the German Medical Association, whose committee he was a member of as secretary until his death and whose interests he competently and zealously represented in the medical association gazette published at his own expense. He energetically fought against medical superstition and secret fraud.

Richter sought and found recovery from his strenuous scientific and practical work through major trips, which he made almost every year from 1850 onwards, but during which he always paid great attention to the medical conditions of the countries he visited. Despite a strong constitution and sober lifestyle, he died unexpectedly after a short illness on May 24, 1876 as a result of a stroke at the age of 68 in Dresden.

Honors

The plant genera Richtera Rchb are named after him . from the family of Theaceae and Richterago Kuntze from the family of the daisy family (Asteraceae).

Fonts (selection)

• Flora of the phanerogamic plants of the area around Leipzig , Leipzig 1830 (together with Klett)
• About juvenile arsonists , Dresden 1844
• The Swedish national and medical gymnastics , Dresden and Leipzig 1845
• Organon of physiological therapy , Leipzig 1850
• Anemia and bleaching , Leipzig 1850; 2nd edition, Leipzig 1854
• Floor plan of the inner clinic , 4th edition, 2 volumes, Leipzig 1860
• Medicinal paperback for Pharmacopoea germanica , Dresden 1868
• The medical district associations of the Kingdom of Saxony in their four-year effectiveness , Leipzig 1869
• Medicinal pocket book for the German Reich Pharmacopoeia , Dresden 1872
• On milk and whey cures , 2nd edition, Leipzig 1872
• The Secret Agent Disorder , 2 vols., Leipzig 1872–75

literature

• Hermann Frölich:  Judge, Hermann Eberhard Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 465.
• Judge, Hermann Eberhard Friedrich . In: Julius Pagel : Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of the 19th Century , 1901, Sp. 1378 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .