Johann Friedrich Osiander

Johann Friedrich Osiander

Johann Friedrich Osiander (born February 2, 1787 in Kirchheim unter Teck , † February 10, 1855 in Göttingen ) was a German gynecologist and urologist.

Life

The son of Friedrich Benjamin Osiander attended schools in Göttingen and passed through the University of Göttingen from 1804 . There he received his doctorate in medicine in 1808 , and in the same year went on an educational trip that took him to the University of Tübingen and the University of Paris . He got to know Jean-Louis Baudelocque (1745–1810) and his way of working. In 1810 he returned to Göttingen, dealt with urology and was assessor of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities .

Under Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, he developed a special fondness for natural history and comparative anatomy and became a member of the Natural History Cabinet. In 1811 he became a private lecturer at the Göttingen University and worked as a general practitioner and obstetrician. On November 24, 1815, he was appointed associate professor of medicine in Göttingen. In 1817 he traveled to Johann Lukas Boër (1751-1835) in Vienna , was in Berlin , Jena and Halle (Saale) in 1817 and in 1822 became his father's representative in Göttingen as the obligatory director of the Göttingen maternity hospital.

After the death of his father, however, the government gave Ludwig Julius Caspar Mende the preference as head of the Göttingen maternity hospital. After his death, Osiander became a full professor of medicine and later took over the zoological and ethnographic department of the Academic Museum. As such, he became Princely Waldeck Councilor. He was also a member of several scientific societies and co-founder of the Vienna Medical Association . He died in Göttingen at the age of 68.

Works (selection)

• Commentatio anatomico-physiologica, qua edisseretur uterum nervos habere. Göttingen 1808
• Diss. Inaug. Medica de fluxu mestruo atque uteri prolapsu icone et observationibus illustrata. Göttingen 1808
• Comments on the French obstetrics, along with a detailed description of the maternite in Paris. Hanover 1813
• Progr. (Editionale) quo in docenta et discenta medicina atque arte obstetricia methodum activam potiorem, in facienda exspectationem saepe non alienam esse ostendit, et observationes quasdam de Pupillis mannuarum numero et structura varis communicat. Goettingen 1817
• News from Vienna about objects of medicine, surgery and obstetrics. Tübingen 1817
• The causes and inclinations of irregular and difficult births ... Tübingen 1833
• To the practice of obstetrics. Observations and remarks from the academical maternity hospital in Göttingen during the two years 1822 and 1832. Hanover 1837
• Folk remedies and simple, non-pharmaceutical remedies for human diseases. A house and family book for the educated classes. CF Osiander, Tuebingen 1826; 3rd edition ibid. 1838 Digitized edition of the University and State Library in Düsseldorf ; 6th edition Carl Meyer, Hanover 1865; 8th edition (unchanged reprint of the edition from 1877; foreword and instructions by Dr. Alfred Pfleiderer) Krüger & Co., Leipzig 1939
• Midwifery book or obstetrics guide for midwives. In addition to instruction on the diseases of women and children ... Tübingen 1839.

literature

• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Meyerische Buchhandlung, Lemgo, 1810, vol. 14, p. 701 ( online ), 1823, vol. 19, p. 40 ( online )
• Johannes Tütken: Privatdozenten in the shadow of Georgia Augusta. Universitätsverlag, Göttingen, 2005, ISBN 3938616148 , Part 2 - Biographical materials on the private lecturers of the summer semester 1812 ( online sample )
• August Hirsch : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. (BÄL) Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, 3rd ed. Vol. 4, p. 453

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 183.