Johann Heinrich Bongard

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Johann Heinrich Bongard

Johann Heinrich Bongard (born March 18, 1779 in Erkrath ; † December 20, 1857 in Düsseldorf ) was a successful ophthalmologist who is best known today as the author of the first work on the Neandertal .

Life

Bongard, who was married to Nanny Merrem from a respected family of doctors and lawyers in Duisburg, who later provided well-known judges in Cologne, had a clinic in the then spa town of Erkrath in Bongardskämpchen on what was then Kreuzstrasse (today Bergischer Hof), where he as one of the first surgeons and ophthalmologists to surgically eliminate cataracts . Because of his merits, he was appointed to the Secret Medical Council, a higher level of honor for established medical practitioners.

After his death in 1857 the clinic had to be closed.

Post fame

Today Bongard is known through the first hiking guide through the Neandertal, which he only really made known, in which he also used drawings to draw attention to the geology, flora and fauna of the valley, which was still unspoilt until then.

The city of Erkrath honored its famous son by naming a street in the green center of the city.

Literature by Johann Heinrich Bongard

Hike to the Neanders Cave - A topographical sketch of the area of ​​Erkrath an der Düssel
70 S., 1835, Arnz & Comp. Düsseldorf (available as a facsimile under ISBN 3-922055-19-2 )

  • The Neanders Cave
    Lithography from walks to the Neanders Cave

  • Small waterfall
    lithograph from walks to the Neanders Cave

  • The Rabenstein
    lithograph from walks to the Neanders Cave

  • Postage stamp on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Neanderthal find using the Raven stone image by Bongard

Works

literature

  • Horst Osmann: Dr. Heinrich Bongard - Erkrath's most important son , in: Usser Dorp 9 (home magazine issue December 1997), pp. 9–22.
  • Horst-Ulrich Osmann: Successful doctor in the village of Erkrath. Dr. med. Johann Heinrich Bongard , in: Journal, Jahrbuch des Kreis Mettmann No .: 17 (1997–1998), pp. 126–130.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Descendants of Prof. Withof III. Generation, accessed Nov. 2007  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dr-albrecht-blank.homepage.t-online.de
  2. ^ City of Erkrath (Ed.) Erkrath , 1986, ISBN 3-88913-097-6
personal data
SURNAME Bongard, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist and nature writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Erkrath
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1857
Place of death Dusseldorf