Johann Ferdinand Heyfelder

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Johann Ferdinand Martin Heyfelder (also Ferdinand Heyfelder ; born January 19, 1798 in Küstrin , † June 21, 1869 in Wiesbaden ) was a German surgeon and university professor and one of the first German users of ether anesthesia.

Life

Heyfelder, son of a dike inspector, went to the wars of liberation against France at the age of 16 . He then went to study medicine at the universities of Berlin , Jena , Würzburg , Tübingen and Breslau . In 1817 he took part in the Wartburg Festival. In Breslau he was on 15 March 1820 the dissertation De prosopalgia Fothergilli to Dr. med. PhD . After completing his doctorate, he traveled to Germany, Austria and Paris, where he spent some time to socialize. After another trip through France, he finally settled in Trier as a general practitioner and began his writing.

Heyfelder was sent east by the royal government in Trier to study the cholera epidemic in 1831 and to France in 1832. The subsequently published scientific debate received diverse recognition. In 1833 he followed the call of the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as personal physician and medical advisor to the princely state government with the rank of medical councilor in Sigmaringen . He also became a well doctor in the Hohenzollern spa in Imnau . During this time he was able to gain experience as a surgeon.

In 1841 Heyfelder accepted a position as successor to Louis Stromeyer at the University of Erlangen . There he became professor of surgery and ophthalmology and director of the surgical clinic. On January 24, 1847, he performed the first German ether anesthesia in Erlangen at the same time as his colleagues in Leipzig (his anesthesia failed and was canceled) and in 1848 he published on the anesthetic chloroethyl . In 1850 he also became director of the Erlangen University Hospital . In the autumn of 1854, due to differences with colleagues and their habitus, he resigned all offices and went to Finland. There he worked as the chief surgeon of the troops and as a surgeon at several hospitals and was involved in the care of the wounded from the Crimean War , among other things .

After the chaos of the war was over, Heyfelder moved to Saint Petersburg in 1856 . There he was again active as a professor of surgery and hospital doctor. In 1866 he was commissioned by the Russian government to inspect the theaters of war in Bohemia , as well as to inspect the military hospitals in the Kingdom of Saxony and the Kingdom of Prussia . He processed the impressions in publications. A year later, in 1867, he was the official representative of Russia at the Congrès médical international de Paris.

Shortly before his death, already seriously ill, he moved to Wiesbaden.

Honors

Heyfelder was elected on May 19, 1828 with the nickname Rosén as a member (matriculation no. 1322) of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . In 1832 he received the royal Prussian small gold medal for art and science as well as a prize from the Medical Society of Lyon for his work on cholera . He was also awarded the title of Imperial Russian Real Councilor in Saint Petersburg .

Publications (selection)

  • Observations on the diseases of the newborns, etc. based on personal experience in the hospitals in Paris. 1825.
  • Suicide in a medical-judicial and medical-police relationship. Enslin, Berlin 1828.
  • About baths and fountain cures, especially at the mineral springs of the Taunus Mountains, namely Ems, Schlangenbad, Wiesbaden and Schwalbach. Schlund, Stuttgart 1834.
  • Studies in the field of healing science. 2 volumes. Stuttgart 1838-1839.
  • The medicinal springs and whey spa facilities of the Königr. Württemberg, including the Hohenzollern principalities, the Grand Duke. Baden, Alsace and Wasgau. 1840.
  • The experiments with sulfur ether, salt ether and chloroform and the results obtained from them in the surgical clinic to achieve. Heyder, Erlangen 1848.
  • About resections and amputations. Webers, Breslau 1854.
  • The behavior to ward off cholera. 2nd expanded edition, Deichert, Erlangen 1854.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Sommerlad : Wartburg Festival and Corps students. Then and now . Vol. 24 (1979), p. 38 (No. 32).
  2. ^ Member entry by Johann Ferdinand Martin Heyfelder at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Heyfelder, Johann Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heyfelder, Johann Ferdinand Martin (full name); Heyfelder, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Küstrin
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1869
Place of death Wiesbaden