Johannes Palm (surgeon)

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Johannes Palm, one of the oldest photographs in Ulm

Johannes Palm (born June 17, 1794 in Ulm , † May 29, 1851 in Ulm) was a German surgeon.

Life

Palm's parents were Wilhelm Friedrich Palm († 1814), municipal surgeon and chief surgeon in Ulm, and his wife Justine Magdalene, nee. Majer († 1806). He attended high school in the former barefoot monastery in Ulm . In 1808, at the age of 14, he began an apprenticeship with his father.

Soldier and student

On August 20, 1813, Johannes Palm reported in Stuttgart as a war volunteer for service as a junior doctor in the Württemberg Landwehr . In the Wars of Liberation he initially fought for Napoleon Bonaparte . When the Duchy of Württemberg switched sides on November 2, 1813, Palm served in the Franquemont infantry regiment ; the regiment owner was Wilhelm I (Württemberg) . On the march to Paris, suffering from typhus , Palm spent months in military hospitals and hospitals . In 1814 he was released from the Württemberg army .

On May 20, 1815 , he enrolled at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen for medicine . There he was one of the founders of the Corps Württembergia and Ulma (1817). Since he had been involved in a duel (Erath / Koller), he received the Consilium abeundi . By Albrecht Berblinger encouraged his doctorate he in 1818 on prosthetic legs to Dr. chir.

Doctor in Ulm

In 1819 he opened a doctor's practice in his father's house and married Katharina Margaretha Litzel († 1837). She gave birth to 13 children, four of whom died as infants . By administering medication as a surgeon, Palm turned the (probably envious) Doctores medicinae against him. Palm then applied in Tübingen for admission to the medical examination. The application was rejected because Palm could not produce a major Latinum . In order to be admitted to the examination, he had to have proven his philological knowledge in an attestation in Ulm. In addition to practice and family, the preparation dragged on for several years. In 1822, Palm was sentenced to three weeks ' arrest for illicit medical practice . But he only served one day because Eugen Friedrich Heinrich von Württemberg advocated his release. Palm passed the philological examination and was admitted to the Tübingen medical school in 1827 as a "doctor of medicine".

Like his father, he became a hospital and municipal surgeon (1833) and chief medical officer (1835). On May 18, 1836, he led the meeting of Württemberg doctors in Ulm. In 1840 he married Louise Friederike verw. Bantlin born Murschel . After three years of childless marriage, he became a widower again. For the first time he used sulfur ether (1847) and chloroform (1848) for anesthesia . In the German Revolution of 1848/1849 he acted as a mediator. At the end of 1849 he suffered a severe chest trauma and died of pericarditis at the age of 57 .

Honors

Johannes Palm - "Doctor of Wundarzney Art, Obstetrician, Operator & Medicinae Licentiat"
  • Gold medal in surgery, University of Tübingen (1818)
  • Rittmeister of the Ulm civil honor guard on horseback (1834)
  • War memorial coin (Württemberg) (1840)
  • Johannes-Palm-Strasse in Ulm (1969)

literature

  • Hans Huber: Sources on the history of the Ulma and Ulmia in Tübingen. Part III: Directory of persons and additions to the Haßler letters. Yearbook then and now. Volume 50. 2005, p. 427 f.
  • Caroline Gebler: The obstetric journals of Dr. med. et chir. Johannes Palm (1794–1851) and the general practitioner Carl GM Palm (1821–1878). Dissertation. Ulm University 2008 ( online ; PDF; 7.7 MB).
  • Karl Palm, Albrecht Rieber: Dr. Johannes Palm, 1794-1851. Life picture of a doctor from Ulm. Ulm 1952.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 303 f .
  • Albrecht Rieber: Dr. Johannes Palm, 1794-1851. Life picture of an Ulm doctor and list of the descendants of the Ulm branch of the Palm family. Ulm 1952.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d C. Gebler 2008
  2. ↑ Einst und Jetzt 50 (2005), p. 427 f.
  3. ↑ University of Tübingen archive 243/37
  4. ↑ dissertation: De pedibus artificialibus
  5. ^ Johannes-Palm-Strasse (meinestadt.de)
personal data
SURNAME Palm, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1851
Place of death Ulm