Julius Falkenstein (Africa explorer)

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Julius Falkenstein

Julius Falkenstein (born July 1, 1842 in Berlin , † July 1, 1917 in Lichterfelde ) was a German doctor and Africa traveler.

Life

Julius Falkenstein was born the son of a general practitioner. After successfully completing his Abitur at the French grammar school in Berlin , he enrolled in medicine at the Medical and Surgical Friedrich Wilhelm Institute . Falkenstein chose zoology as a minor . In 1863, the year he began his studies, he became a member of the Corps Normannia Berlin . In the German War (1866) he took part as a junior doctor. He completed his studies in 1867 with the state examination. With a doctoral thesis on typhus he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he advanced to the position of assistant doctor. General doctor Gustav von Lauer called him to be his personal assistant.

In 1873 Falkenstein was invited by the African Society to take part in the German expedition to the Kingdom of Loango . As a military doctor, he looked after the expedition company at this company named after Paul Güßfeldt until 1876. He not only brought valuable research results to Germany, but also M'Pungu , the second gorilla to reach Europe alive. Falkenstein lived in Berlin from 1879 to 1887 and helped evaluate the results of the expedition. On August 15, 1881, he founded the General German School Association for the Preservation of Germanness Abroad in Berlin . From 1887 he worked as a senior staff doctor at the main cadet institute in Groß-Lichterfelde . He retired in 1890 and settled in the Lichterfelde villa colony . Characterized in 1895 as a first class medical officer and as a secret medical adviser , he died on his 75th birthday.

Publications

  • African album , the Loango coast in 72 original photographs, with text, Berlin 1876
  • About the behavior of the skin in the tropics (in Virchow's "Archive" 1877)
  • the second section of the work of the Loango expedition, Leipzig 1879
  • Medical guide for seafarers, colonists, etc. , 2nd edition, Berlin 1883
  • The future of the Congo and Guinea regions , Weimar 1884
  • Africa's west coast from the Ogowe to the Damara-Land , Leipzig 1885

literature

  • Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, column 485. ( Permalink )
  • Mustafa Haikal : Master Pongo. A gorilla conquers Europe. Transit Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88747-285-6
  • Andreas Mettenleiter : Testimonials, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements II (A – H). In: Würzburg medical history reports. 21, 2002, pp. 490-518, here p. 503.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener corps lists 1910, 13 , 104
  2. ^ WorldCat