Johann Caspar Sahlfelder

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Johann Caspar Sahlfelder (born October 10, 1782 in Essingen (Württemberg) , † April 21, 1860 in Dresden ) was a German medical officer and university professor in the Kingdom of Saxony.

Life

On April 7, 1809 , Sahlfelder joined the Saxon Army at the age of 27 as an underwriter for a field hospital . 1809-1815 he took part in the Wars of Liberation . He then studied medicine at the University of Leipzig . In 1825, at the age of 42, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. After the death of the Saxon General Staff Medic Heinrich August Schön , Sahlfelder was appointed as his successor in 1828. From 1832 he was also a professor at the Surgical Medical Academy in Dresden. In the academy he took over the chair for war medicine . He gave lectures on medical propaedeutics and war medicine, which he passed on to his former student August Friedrich Günther in 1847 due to his illness . On December 22, 1832, he was also appointed director of the medical directorate with the rank of general staff doctor . With that he took over the management of the Saxon medical service in the Saxon Army. In the last years of his life, Sahlfelder was the last attending physician to the topographer and meteorologist Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann . In January 1850, Sahlfelder asked King Johann to be dismissed from his 40-year service. His successor as General Staff Doctor and Chief of the Saxon Medical Corps was August Friedrich Günther.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: De artuum amputatione eaque inprimis in ipso proelii campo instituenda meletemata quaedam .
  2. ↑ Dresden address calendar 1832 , p. 216, SLUB
  3. ^ Annual report of the Society for Nature and Medicine in Dresden, September 1871 to April 1872, digitized on Google Books, p. 21ff.
  4. ↑ Carl Ramming ; Master list and ranking list of the Royal Saxon Army, Dresden 1849, digitized on Google Books, p. 15
  5. ^ Johann Caspar Sahlfelder (City Wiki Dresden)
personal data
SURNAME Sahlfelder, Johann Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military doctor and university professor in Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Essingen (Württemberg)
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1860
Place of death Dresden