Johann Karl Friedrich Ollenroth

Johann Karl Friedrich Ollenroth (born January 9, 1788 in Guben , Niederlausitz, † October 6, 1848 ) was a German medic.

Life

Johann Karl Friedrich Ollenroth was born as the oldest child of five children. His father was Johann Samuel Leberecht Ollenroth, who ran a pharmacy in Guben, but sold it shortly after the birth of Johann Karl Friedrich Ollenroth and moved to Landsberg an der Warthe . His father founded a pharmacy there again and ran it until his death in 1813. His father was with Charlotte Christiane Ollenroth, nee. Jähnichen, married.

From the age of 4, Johann Karl Friedrich Ollenroth attended several private schools and the city school in Landsberg an der Warthe, and was additionally taught botany , pharmacology , pharmaceutical chemistry and the art of formulations by a private tutor .

On May 1, 1802, he began as a volunteer in the Pépinierè , an institute newly founded on August 2, 1795 for the training and further education of military doctors in Berlin. As part of his studies, he received theoretical and practical instruction in physics , chemistry , pharmacy , medicine , surgery , obstetrics and state medicine . After four years he finished his studies on May 1, 1806 and was then employed as a sub-surgeon in the Charite hospital in Berlin . In May and June 1806 he worked in the ward in which the "internally ill men" were treated and in July and August 1806 in the ward of the "externally ill women". The further planned employment in the administration could no longer take place due to the outbreak of war with France .

At the beginning of October 1806, Johann Karl Friedrich Ollenroth was transferred to the office of the General Staff Doctor Johann Goercke . From there he was ordered to work as a sub-surgeon in the field hospital of the Hohenloh Army Corps shortly afterwards. On the march to his unit he was captured by the French near Oranienburg and transported back to Berlin. There he had to do service in the French hospital after the French marched into Berlin on October 25, 1806. Through the mediation of Prince Franz Ludwig von Hatzfeldt , the French commandant at the time, Pierre Augustin Hullin , gave him a passport to travel to his hometown. With this passport he traveled through the French ranks to the Schill's army corps and ranzioniert to Danzig . He arrived there at the beginning of January 1807 and was immediately appointed a sub-surgeon by the chief of the Prussian field hospitals there, Garrison Staff Doctor Redlich. Shortly afterwards he was appointed General Staff Doctor Dr. Johann Goercke was ordered to Königsberg (Prussia) and arrived on February 7, 1807. In Königsberg, Johann Karl Friedrich Ollenroth fell ill several times and was therefore unfit for transport and was able to manage Dr. Do not accompany Goercke on the march. In June / July 1807 the French marched into Königsberg and took him prisoner again. Under the direction of Dr. Perey and the later General Division Doctor Schack, he had to do his service in Königsberg at the local hospital in the Junkerhof , partly because he spoke French. After most of the French withdrew from Königsberg in July 1807, he served in the field hospital of L'Estocq's Corp d'armee until September 20, 1807 . He was then sent to the Royal Domain Office in Schesten near Rastenburg to help fight the dysentery and "putrid nervous diseases" in humans and contain the cattle plague until the end of December 1807. At the beginning of 1808 he was in the infantry regiment of Wilhelm René de l'Homme de Courbière and the associated grenadier battalion von Brauchitsch, initially as a company and later as a senior surgeon, partly in Goldapp and partly in Graudenz , until October 19, 1808. In this last employment relationship he received his doctorate on July 25, 1808 at the University of Frankfurt with the dissertation "De inflammatione in genere". On November 1, 1808, he passed the "Examen rigorosum " and the obstetric examination; the following year he was approved on April 22, 1809 as a general practitioner and obstetrician by the former royal head kellegio Medico et Sanitatis. Returning to Landsberg an der Warthe, he worked out his "Themata medico legalia" and received his certificate of proficiency in physics on August 26, 1809 . Soon afterwards he was employed as a doctor at the Neumark country poor house, the later penal and forced labor institution in Landsberg an der Warthe. This was followed by the expansion of his tasks as district and city physicist of Landsberg an der Warthe, only on an interim basis and formally appointed on May 11, 1813 by the Royal Privy Councilor of State Friedrich von Schuckmann .

In March 1813 Johann Karl Friedrich Ollenroth had to organize military hospitals in Landsberg an der Warthe and in Neudamm for the siege corps in Küstrin and take over the management of these. After Küstrin was taken, the fortress hospitals had to be organized. The hospitals of Landsberg an der Warthe and Neudamm were elevated to provincial hospitals for 1,500 men on October 1, 1813, and remained under the direction of Johann Karl Friedrich Ollenroth until they were evacuated.

On January 31, 1816, the king was appointed to the government and medical council . On April 3, 1816, he was transferred to the Government College in Bromberg , where he was later promoted to the Secret Medical Council .

In 1833 he was elected the second president of the medical-surgical section of the German natural scientists and doctors in Breslau .

To learn more about foreign hospitals, he went on a trip to England and France in 1838 . The return journey took place through northern Italy and southern Germany.

When Johann Karl Friedrich Ollenroth died, he left a widow, three daughters and a son.

Honors

For the services rendered, he received from King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia on May 30, 1814, the Iron Cross, second class, on a white ribbon. He was also awarded the Order of the Red Eagle in fourth and later third class with a ribbon.

Memberships

Johann Karl Friedrich Ollenroth was

• Member of the Association for Medicine in Prussia ;
• corresponding member of the Hufelandsche Society in Berlin;
• Member of the Association of Grand Ducal Medical Officials in Baden for the Promotion of State Medicines;
• Member of the pharmacists' association in northern Germany;
• Honorary member of the Märkische Economic Society in Potsdam;

Works

• Strange case of chronic breast disease, the result of a coffee bean that got stuck in a child's windpipe for almost two years and then coughed up again in "Horn Archive for Medical Experience. 1805. Volume 1 January and February, p. 156
• Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica De Inflammatione in Genere. Francofurti ad Viadrum Apitz 1808
• Examination of the bark of the horse chestnut tree , Berlin. Pharmacy Yearbook. Volume 16. German Yearbook Volume 1. 1815, pp. 241–48.
• Comments on ergot in "Hufeland Journal der Heilkunde" Volume 45, 1817, V, pp. 90–92 (digitized version )
• De angina pectoris : diss. inaug. med. Berolinum: Starck, 1822.
• R else report of the governmental council: Bromberg the 15th August 1831 . Danzig 1831.
• Asian cholera in the government district of Bromberg during 1831. Edited from official sources and provided with our own observations and experiences . Bromberg: Gruenauer, 1832.
• The curability of ovarian dropsy . Berlin, Enslin, 1843.
• Instruction for the knowledge, for the prevention of the outbreak and for the cure of the Asiatic cholera, if a doctor should either not be available at all or not quickly enough . Contemporary statements for my fellow citizens. Bromberg: Grünauer, 1847.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adolph Carl Peter Callisen: Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated peoples, p. 86 . Self-published, 1843 ( google.de [accessed September 8, 2017]).
2. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen von 1848, p. 648 . BF Voigt, 1850 ( google.de [accessed September 8, 2017]).
3. ↑ rbb Prussian Chronicle | The French occupy Berlin and bring about civil self-government (October 27, 1806). May 21, 2008. Retrieved September 21, 2017 .