Richard Pott (pediatrician)

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Hermann Richard Pott (born October 22, 1844 in Halle (Saale) ; † September 25, 1903 in Wernigerode ) was a German pediatrician .

Life

As the son of the linguist August Friedrich Pott , Pott attended the Latina of the Francke Foundations . After serving as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian Army , he began to study natural sciences at the Friedrichs University in Halle . In 1866 he became active with Ulrich Wille in the Corps Borussia Halle .

In the German War he fought as an infantryman in the Battle of Münchengrätz and in the Battle of Königgrätz . He returned to Halle, but switched to medicine. In the meantime at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , he also joined the Corps Nassovia Würzburg in 1868 . The University Hall doctorate him in 1870 to Dr. med. As a lieutenant he took part in the Franco-German War in 1870 . After the regular skirmishes at Pierrefitte-sur-Seine he fought as first lieutenant Franktireurs in Normandy.

He passed the state examination in 1872 and took up a position as an assistant to Theodor Weber in the University Polyclinic. In 1876 he completed his habilitation in Halle for internal medicine and paediatrics . With his own resources he founded a polyclinic for childhood diseases, in 1883 he was appointed (unpaid) associate professor . As head of the provincial vaccination institute , he received a (now endowed) teaching position for vaccination from the university . From 1895 he headed the children's sanatorium of the women's association.

Pott researched infectious diseases in children as well as malformations and wrote numerous articles for the yearbook of paediatrics. Richard Pott died of an unhealed infection that he contracted during an operation.

Honors

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  • Personnel file in the university archive in Halle: UAH PA 12596
  • Entry on Richard Pott in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kösener corps lists 1910, 96/287; 208/323.
  2. ↑ Dissertation on the dangers and disadvantages of intrauterine injections .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Quaestiones de symptomatibus meningitidis tuberculosae puerorum .
personal data
SURNAME Pott, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pott, Hermann Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1903
Place of death Wernigerode