Johann Klein (physician)
Johann Klein (born March 25, 1788 in German home / Moravia ; † April 1, 1856 in Vienna ) was a Habsburg - Austrian obstetrician and university professor .
Life
Johann Klein was the son of a miller. He graduated from the Olomouc high school and then went to the University of Vienna to study medicine . There he obtained a master's degree in obstetrics in 1816 and was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . From 1815 he was an assistant at the chair for theoretical obstetrics with Johann Lukas Boër . In 1819 he went to the surgical school of the Salzburg University as a professor of obstetrics .
Klein followed a call back to Vienna in 1822 , as Boër's successor in the function of head of the clinic for obstetrics at the General Hospital of the City of Vienna and as professor for practical obstetrics. In 1830, Klein was obstetrician at the delivery of the future Emperor Franz Joseph I. In 1840 he was also appointed professor of theoretical obstetrics at the University of Vienna. In addition, Klein was a member of the Imperial Society of Physicians in Vienna . In addition to Ignaz Semmelweis , his assistants included Johann Baptist Chiari , Carl Braun von Fernwald and Gustav von Braun . Johann Baptist Chiari later married the daughter of Johann Klein.
Klein died of typhus on April 1, 1856 around noon .
criticism
In 1884, Theodor Puschmann reported about Johann Klein that he was a rather insignificant doctor who owed his position more to his personality than to his abilities. He also complains about Klein's low publication activity, which Karl von Hecker also noted.
Alfred Rockenschaub explains Klein's fame as a “narrow-minded opponent” of Ignaz Semmelweis, the hygiene pioneer in the field of obstetrics, and, like Puschmann, emphasizes the unusually high maternal mortality rate at Klein's obstetrics clinic. Wolfgang U. Eckart blames Klein for this phenomenon and also points out the opposition to Semmelweis, who had already recognized the relevant problems.
literature
- Karl von Hecker : Klein, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 95.
- Kleinwächter: Klein, Johann . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding physicians of all times and peoples . Volume 3, Urban and Schwarzenberg, Vienna 1886, p. 489 ( digitized version ).
- Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Klein, Johann. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 756.
Web links
- Johann Klein in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ Court and State Manual of the Austrian Empire , Vienna 1848, p. 90.
- ↑ weekly newspaper of the magazine der kaiserl. royal Society of Physicians in Vienna , Volume 2, No. 15, April 7, 1856, p. 244.
- ↑ One of the few contributions is an overview of the events at the practical school of obstetrics in Vienna v. November 1, 1827 to last October 1829 , in: Medicinische Jahrbücher des kaiserl. royal Austrian State, Volume 10 = Volume I NF, Beck, Vienna 1829, p. 114 ff.
- ^ Theodor Puschmann : Medicine in Vienna during the last 100 years , 1884, p. 169.
- ^ Alfred Rockenschaub: Birth without superstition , Facultas Universitätsverlag, Vienna, 3rd edition 2005, ISBN 3-85076-698-5 , p. 39 f.
- ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : History, theory and ethics of medicine. Springer, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-34971-3 , pp. 203 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klein, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian doctor and obstetrician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | German home |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1856 |
| Place of death | Vienna |