Hermann Seidel (physician)

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Hermann Gustav Ludwig Karl Seidel (* 13. July 1855 in Schwerin , † 8. November 1895 in Braunschweig ) was a German physician and doctor of surgery .

childhood and education

Hermann Seidel was the son of the first pastor at the Schwerin Schelfkirche St. Nikolai and the writer Heinrich Alexander Seidel (1811–1861) and his wife Johanne (Auguste), née. Romans (1823-1896). Well-known siblings of Hermann Seidel were his eldest brother, the engineer and writer Heinrich Seidel (1842–1906) and his youngest brother, the art historian Paul Seidel (1858–1929). He had a total of 3 brothers and two sisters with whom he grew up close to nature.

Until he graduated from Michaelis in 1874, Seidel attended the grammar school in Schwerin , and then, like his grandfather, began studying medicine at the University of Würzburg . In Würzburg he also did the first half of his military service as a one-year volunteer . After studying in Heidelberg in the summer of 1875 , he continued on to Strasbourg , where his brother-in-law Rudolph Sohm , husband of his second oldest sister Clara (1848–1879), worked as a legal historian and canon lawyer and where he graduated from the Tentamen physicum on February 20, 1877 duration. At Easter 1877 he went to Leipzig for two years, where he attended lectures by Carl Thiersch and Ernst L. Wagner . He finished his state examination on March 19, 1880 in Strasbourg and then served from May 1 to October 31, 1880 as a one-year voluntary doctor in the Navy in Kiel, which made him second-class assistant doctor on January 22, 1881 and second class on January 21 , 1880 . September 1884 promoted to first class assistant doctor. Finally, on May 14, 1881, Hermann Seidel was promoted to Dr. med. PhD .

Assistant doctor in Halle (1881–1886)

As early as the beginning of 1881, Hermann Seidel had been brought to Halle by the reputation of the famous surgeon Richard von Volkmann , in whose clinic he initially volunteered and was assistant from 1882 . On March 14, 1882 he married Emmy Lösewitz-Ebers, adopted daughter of the famous Egyptologist and novelist Georg Ebers , with whom he had two sons, both of whom died of diphtheria in 1885 . On September 15, 1885, however, daughter Ina Seidel was born and Hermann Seidel became the private assistant to clinic director Richard von Volkmann in the same year. However, the loss of both sons and the desire for independence prompted him to look for a new sphere of activity in the following year. On a trip to Düsseldorf, where hopes of a job in the hospital were dashed, he stopped in Braunschweig. The city promised him so much that he and his family moved there at the end of March 1886, although there was no prospect of a job in the hospital.

Success with a private surgical clinic in Braunschweig

The family moved into a domicile in Braunschweig at Fallersleberthorpromenade 7, where Major a. D. von Münchhausen and the teacher Haars had just moved out. The merchant Bollmann and the widow of the piano maker Friedrich Grotrian lived in the house (Assekuranz no. 1692), which belonged to the private engineer Königsdorf . During the summer of 1886, Hermann Seidel bought the senior teacher Müller the house with the insurance industry no. 3452 at Parkstrasse 3 and opened a private surgical clinic there (office hours: 10 am–12pm and 4–6pm). The widow Matthias , who had recently moved in after Dr. phil. Meyer , trainee lawyer Wicke and secretary Schwettje had moved out. Due to Seidel's surgical and human qualities, which quickly got around in the city, his private clinic experienced an enormous influx of patients in a very short time, which far exceeded Seidel's expectations.

After Seidel's son Willy was born on January 15, 1887 and he and his family lived in the house (Assekuranz No. 5244) of the architect Campe in Adolfstraße 58 near the private clinic in 1888 and 1889 , they lived from that year In 1890 only a few meters further next to the Ducal New High School, which opened in 1885, in the house (Assekuranz no. 4887) of the senior stable master . D. von Girsewald at Adolfstrasse 54. From 1891 Seidel was the owner of the house and had Rittmeister Walther-Weißbeck living in the house as a subtenant, to whom Miss Hess and the doctor Dr. med. Budde followed. From 1892 onwards, the Seidel family could even be reached by telephone on the number F 471.

Tuberculosis Disease and Recovery (Winter 1891/92)

In the winter of 1891/92 tubercles were discovered on Seidel's lungs , but the disease was still in its early stages. He left immediately to spend part of the winter in the climatic health resort of Arosa , which had gained notoriety from 1883 through the German doctor Otto Herwig , as he was cured of a lung disease during his visit and then went to the Arosa Sanatorium (later Berghilf Sanatorium ) had founded to spend.

Seidel spent the second part of winter in Egypt , where he took part in the archaeological excavations of Richard von Kaufmann at the brick pyramid in Hawara in the eastern Fayyum Basin , during which the sensational find of mummy portraits in the tomb of Aline was made in March 1892 and he up Hermann von Wissmann met. Recovered from tuberculosis , he resumed his work as a specialist in surgery and orthopedics in his clinic at Parkstrasse 3 in the spring of 1892 .

Chief Physician of the Surgical Department of the Ducal Hospital (1892–1895)

Seidel became an extremely successful, extremely sought-after and respected surgeon in the city and, after the medical advisor Otto Völker had died on July 10, 1892, took over the management of the surgical department of the Ducal Hospital in Braunschweig on October 1, 1892 and reduced the number of consultations. Times in his private clinic are 11 am–1pm. On January 1, 1893, he was appointed by the government as a voting member of the senior medical college , and in 1894 he was appointed professor.

End of life

"Having become nervous as a result of stressful activity and unpleasant quarrels with colleagues", Seidel committed suicide on November 8, 1895 at the age of 40, "in a state of mental disturbance" through an overdose of morphine. He was buried in the main cemetery in Braunschweig . The successor as head of the surgical department, due to the “malicious intrigue against Seidel”, was surely not an easy one. On April 1, 1896 , Hofrat Otto Sprengel , who had been senior physician in the children's hospital in Dresden since 1882 , and who from 1878 to 1881 also worked with Richard von Volkmann had worked together.

family

He was the father of the writer Ina Seidel , the writer Willy Seidel and the actress and editor Annemarie Seidel .

literature

  • Paul Zimmermann : Hermann Seidel †. In: Paul Zimmermann (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Magazin. Vol. 1, No. 7, November 24, 1895, pp. 52-54 ( digitized version ).
  • Julius Pagel (ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1901; unchanged reprint Basel and Munich 1989. ( digitized , column 1574 and digitized , page 828)
  • Ina Seidel : Dr. Hermann Seidel - a Braunschweig doctor. In: Braunschweiger Calendar. Jubilee year 1950, Verlag Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1950, pp. 47-49.
  • Ulrich Leithäuser: Seidel, Hermann Gustav Ludwig Karl, Prof. Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 562 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See church book Schwerin (St. Nikolai), birth and baptism entries. No. 108/1855; literature sometimes erroneously names June 13th as his date of birth or 1856 as his year of birth.
  2. ↑ a b Grave site in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved July 1, 2020.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Leithäuser: Seidel, Hermann Gustav Ludwig Karl, Prof. Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 562 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Paul Zimmermann: Hermann Seidel †. In: Paul Zimmermann (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Magazin. Vol. 1, No. 7, November 24, 1895, pp. 52-54 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ a b c Julius Pagel (ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1901; unchanged reprint Basel and Munich 1989. ( digitized , column 1574 and digitized , page 828)
  6. ↑ a b c d Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Adreßbuch 1886-1896.
  7. ↑ See Sanatorium Arosa under: Waldhotel National
  8. ↑ German Archaeological Institute (ed.): Ancient monuments. Volume 2. Berlin. 1908. ( digitized version )
  9. ↑ a b Karin Hausen: "... an elm for the swaying ivy". Married couples in the educated middle class. Ideals and realities in the late 18th and 19th centuries. In: Ute Frevert (Ed.): Citizens. Gender relations in the 19th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1987, page 115. ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ O. Bollinger , C. Gerhardt , W. v. Heineke , G. Merkel , J. v. Michel , H. v. Ranke , M. v. Schleiss , F. v. Winckel , H. v. Ziemssen (Ed.): Daily history notes. (Deaths.) In: Münchener Medicinische Wochenschrift (formerly Medical Intelligence Journal). Organ for official and general practitioners. 42nd year. Issue No. 47. November 19, 1895. Page 1116. (Digitized version , Page 1153)
  11. ↑ Dr. Paul Zimmermann (Ed.): Braunschweigische Chronik für d. J. 1896. In: Braunschweigisches Magazin . Nro. January 1, 1897. Page 6. In: Braunschweigisches Magazin. Third volume. Born in 1897. Braunschweig. 1897. page 6.
  12. ↑ Dorit Krusche:  Seidel, Ina. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 172-174 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Seidel, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seidel, Hermann Gustav Ludwig Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1895
Place of death Braunschweig