Johannes Bockendahl
Johannes Adolf Ludwig Bockendahl (born November 1, 1826 in Altona , † October 16, 1902 in Kiel ) was a German doctor and university professor.
education
Johannes Bockendahl was a son of the master tailor Adolph Andreas Bockendahl (1793–1847). The ancestors on the paternal side originally came from Hanover and later settled in Altona. On February 2, 1826, the father married Catharina Helene, née Lembke (1793–1877), who worked as a midwife from 1893 - three years after the birth of her son Johannes. The couple also had three daughters.
Bockendahl grew up with his three siblings in modest circumstances. After the father sold his business and house for health reasons, his son had to work at a young age to contribute to the family's income. Having both musical and drawing talent, he copied sheet music, made sketches for magazines and gave private lessons and thus earned money.
During his school visit in Altona he made friends with the later medical officer Jessen and Karl Heinrich Christian Bartels . In 1846 he began studying medicine at Kiel University , which he continued from 1847 to 1848 at Heidelberg University . His teachers included Jakob Henle in Physiology and Micronomical Anatomy and Franz Naegele in Gynecology.
Due to the outbreak of the Schleswig-Holstein uprising , Bockendahl interrupted his studies and went back to northern Germany. Together with Karl Heinrich Christian Bartels , he joined the Rantzauschen Freikorps and worked as a junior doctor for the Schleswig-Holstein Army . In the same year he resumed his studies at the University of Würzburg , interrupting it in the spring of 1849 for another medical assignment in the army. In the winter of 1849 he moved back to the University of Kiel, where he graduated with the state examination the following year.
From May to July 1850, Bockendahl worked as an assistant at the Medical University Clinic in Kiel and then went to Gottorf Castle , where he practiced in a hospital. Bockendahl spent a short time in detention and got a new job as a hospital doctor in Schleswig in October 1850. In the same year, he and his friend Bartels did his doctorate at Kiel University. med. In 1852 he passed the physics examination and worked again as a general practitioner in Schleswig.
Work at the University of Kiel
In 1861 Bockendahl took over a position as a private lecturer for internal medicine at the Medical University Clinic in Kiel. In the same year he co-founded the Schleswig-Holstein Doctors Association . At Kiel University he conducted courses on dissections and histology and gave lectures on pathological and surgical anatomy. From 1865 he also taught forensic medicine and from 1869 to 1887 hygiene.
Bockendahl, who took over the post of medical inspector for Holstein in 1865, received an appointment as extraordinary professor for forensic medicine and medical history in 1867. Thus, for the first time, a full-time teacher taught in the field of forensic medicine. After the medical system of Schleswig-Holstein had been reorganized according to the Prussian model in 1870, Bockendahl acted as the government medical council of the Schleswig government. He was also a member of the Provincial Medical College in Kiel.
In 1880 Bockendahl became an extraordinary member of the Reich Health Office in Berlin . In 1885 he took over the deputy chairmanship of this Kiel provincial medical college. In 1887 he was appointed to the senior medical council and a year later he joined the newly founded medical association in Schleswig-Holstein . Because of the cholera epidemic of 1892 , he met Robert Koch . In 1897 Bockendahl retired as a government medical councilor. On December 11, 1900, he celebrated his golden anniversary as a doctor.
In old age Bockendahl increasingly suffered from physical weakness. In 1888 he was operated on by Friedrich von Esmarch for bowel cancer. In 1900 he had to stop his practice because of serious circulatory disorders. He then gave lectures and was involved in leading positions in the Schleswig-Holstein Medical Association until shortly before the end of his life .
Johannes Bockendahl died in October 1902 due to a stroke.
Importance as a medic
Bockendahl was considered a valued practicing doctor. Both as a teacher and as a civil servant, he was highly regarded as a knowledgeable, open-minded and incorruptible physician. Through his commitment to optimize Schleswig-Holstein's health care system and to train and represent the state's medical profession, he became known nationwide. The Ministry of Health in Berlin appointed him to the lecturing council in 1871. Since Bockendahl did not want to reduce his commitment in Schleswig-Holstein, he did not respond to the call. Instead, he worked as an advisory member of the agency.
Bockendahl played a decisive role in several legislative processes in Schleswig-Holstein. These included the revision of the medical state examination, the creation of a health ship's book, a revision of pharmacies and disease laws. In 1864 he wrote the "General Reports on Public Health in the Province of Schleswig-Holstein" for the first time. These texts served as models for further reports of this kind in Prussia.
Bockendahl published extensively. This included treatises on a "swamp area" and in 1866 on the "cesspools" in the Kiel suburb. In 1868 he wrote about questions from the construction police in Kiel and compiled statistics on consumption there for the years from 1875 to 1879 .
family
On September 8, 1854, Johannes Bockendahl married Sabine Marie Henriette Rüppell († August 1, 1895 in Kiel), whose uncle was the director of the Schleswig lunatic asylum. The couple had two daughters and six sons, including Adolf Wilhelm (* 1855), who became known as a court doctor and district physician, and their son Ernst, who settled in Kiel as a merchant.
A brother of John's father was Christian Georg Bockendahl (1795–1843). He belonged to Caspar Voght's extended circle of friends . In 1822 he founded and headed the Bockendahl teaching and education institute in Klein-Flottbek based on the model of the Köhnke institute in Nienstedten . At the end of 1837 the school was closed due to insolvency. The school building has been preserved.
literature
- Edith Feiner: Bockendahl, Johannes Adolf Ludwig . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, pp. 62–64
Individual evidence
- ↑ Intelligence News . In: GP Petersen (ed.): Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg Provincial Reports. 11th year, 1822, p. 177 ff .; Plan of the educational institution for boys and youths. In: Hartwig Peters (ed.): Neue Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburgische Provinzialberichte , Jg. 1831, p. 473 ff .; Hans Schröder : 282. Markus Christian Köhnke In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 25. Jg. 1847, 2. Theil, Voigt, Weimar 1849, S. 812-813 digitized
- ↑ Hedwig Sturm: The Altona school system until the end of Danish rule, its development and its personalities , in: Altonaische Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde , 5th volume, Herm. Lorenzen, Altona 1936
- ↑ No. 6 , in addition to the first piece of the Schleswig-Holstein advertisements from January 1, 1838 . In: Schleswig-Holstein advertisements for the year 1838 , II. Vol. NF, Johann Wilhelm Augustin, Glückstadt digitized
- ↑ Herbert Cords: Youth work by Louis Gurlitt in Klein Flottbek in the former conservatory Hochrad 74. In: Citizens and Heimatverein Nienstedten (ed.): Der Heimatbote , year 46, October 1997, pp. 11-12 PDF
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bockendahl, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bockendahl, Johannes Adolf Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1902 |
| Place of death | Kiel |