Johann Carl Georg Fricke

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Johann Carl Georg Fricke (born January 28, 1790 in Braunschweig , † December 4, 1841 in Naples ) was a German surgeon .

Life

Johann Carl Georg Fricke was the son of Johann Heinrich Gottlieb Fricke , who held a position as professor at the Brunswick Collegium Carolinum . At the age of 14, Johann Carl Georg Fricke took classes at the anatomical college in his hometown and four years later began studying medicine at the University of Göttingen . After receiving his doctorate in 1810, Fricke moved to Berlin , where, among other things, Karl von Graefe trained him to operate.

In 1813 Fricke went to Hamburg , where he took over the position of battalion doctor in the Hanseatic Legion . After interim obligations in Braunschweig, the doctor returned to Hamburg at the end of 1814, where he worked as a surgeon in a Russian hospital. During this time he gained extensive surgical experience. From 1815 he took a job as a surgeon at the Masonic Hospital and in 1817 moved to the General Poor Asylum and worked as a poor surgeon for the Israelite community. In 1816 the surgeon was one of the founding members of the Medical Association.

Since 1818 Fricke was a member of the Health Council, which, as the city's highest medical authority, had an advisory role for the Hamburg Senate. With the opening of the St. Georg General Hospital in 1823, Fricke took over the positions of directing surgeon and second hospital doctor. He was committed to founding an anatomical and surgical educational institute, which was established in 1833.

In 1840 Fricke showed symptoms of a lung disease, after which he resigned from the service. Fricke then went to health resorts in Heidelberg and Naples, where he died in 1841.

Fricke was married. His wife died in 1840.

Importance to science

Fricke described, among other things, a new method of blepharoplasty in his work The formation of new eyelids in 1829 and in 1840 on the operation to heal strabismus , which treated strabismus. In 1830, in Über die Torsion , he described a method for stopping bleeding. He wrote down numerous findings that he made while working at the hospital in St. Georg.

In addition to surgical methods, he also dealt with other medical specialties, including in 1812 the effects of animal magnetism. In 1826 he tried to find alternative treatments for syphilis.

Honors

In 1828 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In Hamburg, Frickestrasse in Eppendorf is reminiscent of Johann Carl Georg Fricke. It has had this name since 1887 and 1928.

literature

  • Fricke (Johann Karl Georg) , in: Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Hamburg writers to the present. Volume 2: Dassovius - Günther, Hamburg 1854, p. 380 No. 1102
  • Kai Sammet: Fricke, Johann Carl Georg . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 127-128 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry of Johann Karl Georg Fricke at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 23, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Fricke, Johann Carl Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1841
Place of death Naples