Ida Boysen

Ida Boysen (born May 19, 1889 in Marburg , † May 23, 1961 in Leipzig ) was a German surgeon in Leipzig.

Ida Boysen

Life

Ida Boysen's father was the library councilor Karl Boysen (1852–1922). When he was transferred to Berlin in 1895, Ida went to the secondary school for girls in Steglitz . Because of her father's recent transfer to Königsberg i. Pr. They came there in 1899 on the Cochius school. Actually inclined to medicine, "the headstrong girl should first learn something good" - housekeeping . She left Königsberg with a heavy heart. She complied with the wishes of her parents and joined the daughter's home of the Mathilde Zimmer Foundation in Kassel. In 1906 she received the certificate of leaving with the "ability to run a small household independently". On an estate near Oldenburg (Oldb) , she expanded her skills to include agriculture.

Tomb of Karl and Ida Boysen

In 1906 her father was appointed director of the Leipzig University Library . In 1907 Ida began her three-year training in the city's teacher training college in Leipzig . In 1912 she passed the school board candidate examination with the rating "excellent". In the following two years she attended Katharina Windscheid's secondary school courses . As an extranea, she passed the school leaving examination at the Petri-Realgymnasium in Leipzig in 1914, also with the grade "excellent". In the summer semester of 1914 she studied natural sciences at the University of Leipzig .

When the First World War broke out , she registered for training as a nurse with the German Red Cross in the Jacobshospital . She was sent to East Prussia , which is close to the front , and was employed in surgery at the main garrison hospital in Insterburg in 1914/15 . In the spring of 1915, she fell ill with scarlet fever . Since the accompanying nephritis did not heal, she returned to Leipzig. There she began to study medicine. She passed the Physikum at Easter 1917 with excellent grades. According to the law on the patriotic auxiliary service , she worked in the following summer semester as an auxiliary assistant in the physiology of Siegfried Garten . For the last four clinical semesters she moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . You famulierte in University Hospital eight weeks at the medical clinic in the University Hospital of Munich three months at the surgical clinic, eight weeks at the University Eye Hospital and the University Hospital and a quarter at the Polyclinic of the I. Medical Clinic. On January 13, 1920, she passed the medical state examination in Munich with the grade "very good". She spent the year as a medical intern in the Jacobshospital in Leipzig in 1920/21. After the first half in internal medicine (with Adolf von Strümpell ), she joined Otto Kleinschmidt and Erwin Payr in surgery . In May 1921 she was approved as a "doctor" and became a Dr. med. PhD. The associate professor Kleinschmidt took her on as a trainee in February 1921 .

After her mother died early, she also lost her father in 1922, at the beginning of her clinical career. She lived in the new radiotherapy building built in 1923. The colleagues became family. The young Heinrich Kuntzen considered her “one of the straightest personalities at the clinic”. When Kleinschmidt was said goodbye to Wiesbaden in 1926 at the Alte Waage , Boysen, who smoked a pipe and cigars, drowned her grief in a veritable intoxication . Long before her death, Payr, one of Germany's great surgeons, praised her surgeon soul:

"During these years, I had a very excellent employee of unusual talent, tremendous hard work and a great sense of responsibility in Miss Dr. Ida Boysen. For the younger assistants she represented a kind of governess and parenting mother, who was ready at any hour of the day and night to come to a decision on upcoming interventions and to intervene immediately if the situation became critical. I am very grateful to this noble lady, who was downright touching in her educational work for the young team. "

- Erwin Payr

Her ankylosing spondylitis forced Boysen to give up clinical work in 1937. When Wilhelm Rieder succeeded Payr on April 1, 1937, she had not been able to operate for several years. Still loyal to the clinic, she helped the professors with publications . The work in the archive and in the library of the clinic came to an abrupt end with the air raids on Leipzig . On the night of December 4, 1943, large parts of the city and the university hospital (including Boysen's apartment) were destroyed in about 20 minutes. Thanks to elaborate precautions, all surgery patients could be saved. Alternative hospitals with surgical options were only available in Dosen and in the Hochweitzschen sanatorium, 65 km away . After Boysen had become completely rigid and unable to walk, an extensive pressure ulcer also made sitting and lying a torture for her. Hemiplegia made her completely nursing. She died shortly after her 72nd birthday and was initially buried next to her friend Elsa Dreyer in Hochweitzschen. At the instigation of Gerald Wiemers and his wife (a distant relative of Ida Boysen), she was reburied in her father's grave in Leipzig's southern cemetery in 2009 .

literature

• In a frail body an immortal soul. In memoriam Dr. Ida Boysen . The East Prussian family of doctors, summer newsletter 1962.
• Christian Schwokowski : Ida Boysen - a surgeon of intellectual modesty and profound humanitas . Ärzteblatt Sachsen 8/2019, pp. 57–61 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Boysen, Karl (Kalliope)
2. ↑ Cochius School in Königsberg (bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de)
3. ↑ 50 years of the Luisenhaus Kassel (Mathilde Zimmer Foundation e.V.)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Your own CV for your doctorate
5. ↑ Dissertation: Contribution to the knowledge of the partial gastric volvulus in a diaphragmatic defect, complicated by a bleeding gastric ulcer . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
6. ^ ^{A b} Christian Schwokowski : Ida Boysen - a surgeon of intellectual modesty and profound humanitas. (PDF) In: Ärzteblatt Sachsen. August 2019, accessed August 6, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Ida Boysen (geschichte.charite.de)