Johannes Wildberger

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Johannes Wildberger, around 1870

Johannes Wildberger (born January 1, 1815 in Neunkirch , Canton Schaffhausen , † November 30, 1879 in Meran , Austria-Hungary ) was a German craftsman and lay therapist in orthopedics.

Life

Johannes Wildberger was born into a Calvinist family and was confirmed in Tuttlingen, Württemberg . There he did an apprenticeship as a cutler , instrument maker and engraver from 1831 . He passed the journeyman's examination on April 23, 1834.

Walz

During the years of traveling he rolled to Neuchâtel NE , Lausanne , Neuenegg , Bern , Lucerne , Zurich , Rapperswil and Hochbuch (Lindau) . In Hochbuch he worked for Johann Georg Sting for four months. In February 1835 he came to Landshut via Lindau (Bodensee) , Augsburg and Munich , where he stayed with the cutler Jakob Tresch until June 1835. On the way to Nuremberg he stayed in Regensburg for a year . From June 13th to August 29th, 1836, he was in Nuremberg to take the trade examination as an instrument maker. He then stayed with a colleague in Munich for a while and returned to Switzerland via Augsburg and Ulm . His hiking book is kept in the Bamberg City Archives.

Bamberg

Johannes Wildberger: Program on the newly established orthopedic sanatorium in Bamberg (1849)

After getting to know the craft in Franconia better in Nuremberg , he married the daughter of an instrument maker in 1838. When he asked for permission to settle in Bamberg , he met with considerable resistance from the craftsmen. The Bamberg doctors Adam Kaspar Hesselbach and Friedrich Dotzauer finally enforced the license as cutler and instrument maker. The resistance was even stronger when in July 1848 he asked for approval from an orthopedic hospital. Expressed religious and above all political concerns; for Wildberger was considered an archcalvinist and liberal democrat in the Catholic city of Bamberg, i.e. a revolutionary. Doctors again helped him to succeed, especially Friedrich Wilhelm Heidenreich , who was also very much appreciated in Bamberg .

In his applications to the city, Wildberger not only demanded free beds and grants for poor patients, but also “cripple welfare” with school and professional training. In his publications he followed Matthias Ludwig Leithoff , Bernhard Heine , Jakob von Heine , Johann Georg Heine , Louis Stromeyer and Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach . In 1849 Wildberger was able to open the orthopedic sanatorium in the former Michelsberg monastery . He dealt intensively with the problems of congenital hip dislocation and scoliosis, which are still difficult today .

Since the resistance against him meant financial imponderables, he bought a sawmill with a wood goods factory to protect his family economically . The persistent difficulties finally prompted him to move his institute to the Jägersburg hunting lodge in Eggolsheim in 1871 . In 1873 he handed over management to his son Georg Heinrich Wildberger. That soon failed and emigrated to the United States , where he died in 1875. Father Wildberger only managed the wood processing company. At the age of 64 he died lonely and forgotten in Tyrol.

Fonts (selection)

  • First report on the orthopedic sanatorium in Bamberg. Bamberg 1852.
  • New orthopedic treatment of outdated spontaneous dislocations in the hip joint. Würzburg 1855, Leipzig 1856.
  • Highlights and shadows in the field of orthopedics. I. Scoliosis, its development and healing according to personal experience and by means of self-made apparatus, together with brief erosion of the head obstipum and kyphosis. Erlangen 1861.
  • The curvatures of the spine. Leipzig 1862.
  • Practical experience in the field of orthopedics. Leipzig 1863.
  • Ten photographic images to demonstrate the beneficial healing results of my treatment of outdated spontaneous dislocations in the hip joint, with a historical introduction to the progress in orthopedics, along with two medical histories: Supplementary text to my work “Practical experiences in the field of orthopedics”. Leipzig 1863; also in French: Leipzig 1863.

Honors

literature

  • Valide Gielen: Johannes Wildberger (1815–1879), an orthopedist in his political, social and professional environment. Dissertation. University of Würzburg 1986.
  • Bruno Valentin : Johannes Wildberger and his orthopedic institute in Bamberg. In: Archives for orthopedic and trauma surgery. 54 (1962), pp. 224-229, doi: 10.1007 / BF00415651 .
  • Gerhard Grosch: Johannes Wildberger (1815–1879) A Swiss cutler and pioneer in orthopedics. Schwabe, Basel / Stuttgart 1969.

Web links

Commons : Johannes Wildberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f August Rütt (ed.): History of orthopedics in the German-speaking area . Enke, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-432-25261-7 , pp. 14-15.
  2. ^ Doris Schwarzmann-Schafhauser: Orthopädie im Wandel. The development of discipline and profession in the Federation and the Empire (1815–1914). (2004)
  3. ↑ Member entry by Johannes Wildberger (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Wildberger, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss instrument maker and lay practitioner in orthopedics
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirch , Canton of Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1879
Place of death Meran