Jakob Hermann Bockenheimer

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Portrait of Bockenheimer, ca.1880

Jakob Hermann Bockenheimer (born December 25, 1837 in Frankfurt-Harheim ; † October 15, 1908 Frankfurt am Main ) was a German doctor and surgeon.

Life

Bockenheimer came from a respected family in Harheim . His father was a teacher at the cathedral school in Frankfurt. He himself studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen, Würzburg, Prague, Vienna and Paris. In 1859 he became a member of the Corps Hannovera in Göttingen .

Bockenheimer in 1890 with his assistants

In 1861 he received his doctorate as Dr. med. and since 1863 he practiced in Frankfurt am Main. There he founded the first private surgical clinic in Sachsenhausen in 1866 on Elisabethenstrasse. As early as 1870, he built a new clinic in Mühlbruchstrasse based on his own design. In the German-French war were treated there over 120 German officers. His last new clinic building (1882) in Gutzkowstraße 53 with 150 beds already had modern innovations such as running water, central heating and ventilation. Bockenheimer, who relied on the antiseptic method right from the start , ran an outpatient clinic in addition to the inpatient area, in which many workers were often treated free of charge for their occupational diseases, such as lead poisoning. Because of his services as a doctor, he was appointed to the Prussian secret medical council.

Due to his scientific interest, he worked for 43 years in the administration of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society , where he earned merit as head of the section for reptiles, amphibians and fish. He was buried in the main cemetery. The grave is now used by the city of Frankfurt as a grave of honor .

Dr. Bockenheimer Fountain in Frankfurt
Bockenheimer monument in Harheim

In Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, the Dr. Bockenheimer fountain on Oppenheimer Platz commemorates him today , which was erected by the Sachsenhausen district association in cooperation with the Frankfurt Medical Association in 1932 out of gratitude from the Sachsenhausen residents for the often free treatment of needy sections of the population from donations . The fountain and the bronze figure on the shell-lime column were designed by the sculptor August Bischoff . It shows a life-size sculpture of a youth with raised hands and hands pointing upwards. Water runs from the hands into the basin below. This is supposed to symbolize healing power. In 1942 the bronze sculpture was melted down. A new sculpture made of copper was placed on the preserved column in 1949.

In 1990, in his hometown of Harheim, a bronze bust of Bockenheimer was placed on a granite plinth opposite the community center.

The surgeon Philipp Bockenheimer was his son.

Works

  • On the stenosis of the esophagus , Würzburg 1861 (Diss. Z. Dr. med.)
  • Is it advisable to put the insane in an asylum at the beginning of their illness? , Frankfurt 1861
  • Cholera in its manifestations and in its essence , Frankfurt 1865
  • Statistischen Mitteilungen , Frankfurt 1866–1898 (including case reports)
  • A small contribution to the ovariotomy , Frankfurt 1876
  • On the diagnosis of mediastinal tumors , Frankfurt 1877
  • Contribution to the therapy of tubercular diseases of the joints and bones , Frankfurt 1896, (Festschrift for the meeting of natural scientists; together with Dr. Seckbach)

literature

  • Without statement of responsibility: Familie Bockenheimer. In: Frankfurter Blätter für Familiengeschichte, year 1. 1908, issue 11
  • Stefan Elbers: Go. San.-Rat Dr. med. Jakob Hermann Bockenheimer. In: Issue 5 of the Düsseldorf papers on the history of medicine, Düsseldorf 1938.
  • Wilhelm Kallmorgen: Seven Hundred Years of Medicine in Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt 1936

Web links

Commons : Jakob Hermann Bockenheimer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42 , 624.
  2. Bockenheimer-Denkmalbrunnen http://www.kunst-im-oefflichen-raum-frankfurt.de/de/page41.html?standort=144