Jonas Goldschmidt

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Jonas Goldschmidt (born March 28, 1806 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ; † March 28, 1900 there ) was a German doctor , medical officer and writer .

Career

Goldschmidt was born as the son of the Jewish businessman Joseph Baruch Goldschmidt (1770-1853) and Bune-Julie. Goldschmidt (approx. 1775-1859) born. The family had been resident in Oldenburg for several generations and ran a butcher's shop that had been founded in Emden in 1701 by great-grandfather Meyer Goldschmidt . He attended high school in Oldenburg and studied medicine from 1824 to 1827 at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin . In 1828 he again received his doctorate in Göttingen and opened a practice in Delmenhorst as a general practitioner .

In 1831 he gave up the practice and in April 1831 became a medical officer with the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment . Probably in connection with his imminent marriage, he converted to Christianity in October 1832. Goldschmidt then quickly made a career, was promoted to senior physician in 1841 and received the rank of captain in 1842 . In 1848 he was promoted to medical officer with the rank of major . In 1850 he was head of the military medical department of the newly founded Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital , in 1857 he also became a member of the hospital management and in 1860, finally, chief medical officer . In 1848 he took the Oldenburg contingent on campaign against Denmark in part and made the 1866 Main campaign during the German war with. When the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg surrendered its defense sovereignty to Prussia by means of military conventions in 1866/67 , Goldschmidt was adopted in September 1867 with the title of Privy Medical Councilor . Now he could devote himself to his private practice in Oldenburg, which he continued into old age. He was also one of the founding members of the literary-sociable association and began in the first half of the 1840s to process his experiences as a doctor in writing. He also intervened in literary terms in the violent disputes that were waged in the last years of Vormärz due to the advance of High German and against the background of necessary school reforms to push back the Low German language . Goldschmidt was one of the opponents of Low German, pointing to its inability to denote new realities and the widened gap between town and country and between social classes. In December 1845 he gave a lecture at the Volksbildungsverein with the provocative title “About Low German as a great obstacle to all education”. The lecture caused a sensation in Oldenburg, but Goldschmidt, under the influence of Ludolf Wienbarg , pleaded for national and socio-political reasons for the complete suppression of the Low German language. In his view, it would stand in the way of the linguistic unity of the nation and prevent large parts of the rural population from exercising their newly acquired civic rights and duties.

In the following years, however, Goldschmidt turned to less controversial topics and published a series of linguistic and folklore studies as a contribution to the social history of the Oldenburg rural society before industrialization . He also campaigned for a healthier diet for the rural population, was an advisor in many situations and was very popular.

family

Goldschmidt was married twice. On December 26, 1832, he married Emilie Wilhelmine Auguste Grovermann (1810–1846) from Delmenhorst. After her death, on August 31, 1847, he married Caroline Wilhelmine Bernhardine Müller (1822–1876), the daughter of the businessman Hermann Gerhard Müller (1769–1829). The politician Hermann Gerhard Müller (1803–1881), who, two years older, had attended the same high school, became his brother-in-law through this connection. The son Friedrich (1836-1902) became a Prussian major general and married Adelheid Freiin von Berg, the daughter of the Oldenburg Prime Minister Karl von Berg (1810-1894). The second son from this marriage, Albert (1838-1884), became chief post director in Metz , daughter Emilie (1840-1923) married the Oldenburg senior building officer Oskar Tenge (1832-1913). A daughter from his second marriage, Henriette Elisabeth (* 1848), married a colleague of her father, the Oldenburg medical officer Friedrich August Bucerius, became the mother of Walter Bucerius and the grandmother of the founder of the time, Gerd Bucerius .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The diseases in the Duchy of Oldenburg. A contribution to medical geography. Without location information. 1845.
  • About Low German as a major obstacle to any education. Oldenburg. 1846. ( digitized version )
Reprinted in: Claus Schuppenhauer (Ed.): Low German yesterday. Empty. 1980.
  • Small pictures of life. From the portfolio of a German doctor. 3 vols. Oldenburg. 1844-1847.
  • The Oldenburg in language and proverb. Sketched from life. Oldenburg. 1847. 2nd edition: 1916. Reprint: Blank. 1980.
  • Folk medicine in north-western Germany. Bremen. 1854. Reprint: Blank. 1978.
  • The social position of doctors now and then. Oldenburg. 1855.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mentioned in: Ralf Dahrendorf: “Liberal and independent. Gerd Bucerius and his time ”, Munich: Beck, 2000, p. 13ff
  2. ↑ also mentioned in Dahrendorf p. 13f
  3. ↑ Order according to the Court and State Manual of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. 1866, p. 100
personal data
SURNAME Goldschmidt, Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, medical officer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldb)
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1900
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)