Joseph Hermann Schmidt
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Joseph Hermann Schmidt (born June 14, 1804 in Paderborn , † May 15, 1852 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and university professor .
Life
Schmidt was the son of the doctor and district physician of Paderborn Joseph Schmidt († 1827). From 1821 to 1825 Schmidt studied at the universities of Göttingen, Heidelberg, Bonn and Berlin. In 1824 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Bonn . In 1825 he received his doctorate in Berlin. The following year he passed the state examination and then practiced in his home town of Paderborn.
In 1827 the Prussian government sent Schmidt to represent his sick father to Hövelhof and Stukenbrock to research the causes of a fever epidemic that broke out there in the 1820s. At Schmidt's suggestion, creeks were straightened and deepened there. The epidemic could thus be fought successfully.
After the death of the director of the State Hospital Ludwig Ficker in 1828, Schmidt was his successor. In 1834 he was appointed director of the newly founded midwifery training institute for the administrative districts of Minden and Arnsberg. In 1838 he was appointed district physician .
In 1842 he supported Pauline von Mallinckrodt , a school friend of his wife Maria Everken (1813–1882), in founding a school for the blind in Paderborn.
In the early 1840s, Schmidt took part in the discussion about a medical reform in Prussia and published several papers on it. As a result, in 1844 he got a job as a lecturer in the Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs . He was also appointed professor and director of the maternity department at the Charité in Berlin.
Schmidt died of a lung haemorrhage in Berlin in 1852. He left six children. His eldest son Wilhelm (1834–1855) was a co-founder of the Berlin Catholic Reading Club . He was killed in a shipwreck in 1855. His son Karl made a name for himself as a legal writer. His youngest son Otto was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and, from 1893, of the German Reichstag .
In Hövelhof, Dr.-Schmidt-Strasse was named after him. In the Paderborn district of Schloß Neuhaus , a special needs school bears his name.
Fonts (selection)
- Contributions to Staats-Arzney-Wissenschaft , Volume 1, also under the title: Expert report to the Kgl. Prussian High Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medicinal Affairs and the Kgl. Highly commendable government in Minden about the European summer fever, with special reference to the epidemic that ruled the moor areas of the Paderborn district in 1827. Paderborn 1830 (with 22 copper plates)
- Twelve books on morphology in general and comparative noso morphology. Berlin 1831
- A hundred aphorisms about human life. Paderborn 1841
- The reform of the Medicinal Constitution of Prussia. Berlin 1846
- For judicial obstetrics. Berlin 1851
literature
- Alexander Göschen: Nekrolog. In: Deutsche Klinik, Volume 4 (1852) ( digitized version )
- German Pharmacists Association: Biographical Monument, Dr. Joseph Hermann Schmidt. In: Archives of Pharmacy, Volume 120 (1852), 3rd Issue, pp. 345–349 ( digitized version )
- August Hirsch : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume 5 (1887), pp. 243–245 ( digitized version )
- Julius Pagel : Schmidt, Joseph Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 748 f.
- Fraatz, Paul: The Paderborn district doctor Joseph Hermann Schmidt. Berlin 1939
- Gunnar Anger: SCHMIDT, Joseph Hermann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 1287-1289.
Individual evidence
- ↑ wo-sie-ruhen.de
- ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 10 , 33
- ↑ a b Street names of the municipality Hövelhof and their meaning: Dr-Schmidt-Straße (PDF; 13 kB)
- ^ Josef Freisen : State Hospital, Capuchin Monastery, Cooperative of the Sisters of Mercy in Paderborn. Paderborn 1902, p. 60 ( digitized version )
- ^ Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government in Minden, Jg. 1834, p. 26
- ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Minden, year 1838, p. 338
- ↑ The Vincke'sche provincial institution for the blind for Westphalia Paderborn and Soest. Münster 1897 ( digitized version )
- ^ Hermann Schmidt School
Web links
- Joseph Hermann Schmidt . In: Westfälische Biographien, ed. from the Paderborn Antiquities Association and Paderborn History Association.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Joseph Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paderborn |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1852 |
| Place of death | Berlin |