Julius Rosenbaum (doctor)

Georg August Wilhelm Julius Rosenbaum (born September 7, 1807 in Burg ; † September 6, 1874 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German doctor .

Life

Georg August Wilhelm Julius Rosenbaum was born on September 7, 1807 in Burg near Magdeburg as the son of the doctor Friedrich August Rosenbaum, who died in Coburg in 1857 . Having trained at the Zerbster monastery school and a grammar school in Wittenberg , he moved to the University of Halle in 1828 to study medicine . He graduated with the October 28, 1832 Promotion to Doctor from the medicine. After he had finally passed the medical state examination in Berlin in April 1834, from then on he worked as a general practitioner in Halle.

After the death of a private lecturer in Halle , a new person was sought who would henceforth give lectures on pathology and therapy for surgeons and surgeons. Ernst Blasius suggested Julius Rosenbaum. The medical faculty agreed to this proposal, while a government officer declined Rosenbaum's appeal. He said that apart from the good dissertation, no scientific work was to be expected from Rosenbaum. In the Catalogus Professorum Halensis it is stated that this rejection could have a political background, as Rosenbaum was involved in politics in his younger years. Finally, Rosenbaum received his habilitation in Halle in 1836 with a paper on the caesarean section . The situation was particularly checked by obstetrics professor Wilhelm Hermann Niemeyer .

Rosenbaum also read about aspects of the history of medicine. In addition, he published several works, some of which were published under the name Blasius'. On the other hand, the other professors had a negative attitude towards Rosenbaum, especially Ludwig Hermann Friedländer (1790–1851) saw Rosenbaum as a competitor. Finally, Rosenbaum asked several times for promotion to a paid associate professor , but this was always refused because of Friedländer's opinion.

In 1841 Rosenbaum was appointed a foreign member of the Paris Academy of Sciences . He finally stopped working as a private lecturer in October 1844 after there were further controversies about him, including a letter from Friedländer to the responsible ministry. In the following years he returned to his medical practice. In 1847 Rosenbaum received the Prussian Merit Medal for Art and Science as praise for his activities . Gradually, the medical societies of the cities of Brussels , Dresden , Hamburg , St. Petersburg , Breslau , Bruges and Zurich appointed Rosenbaum as their member.

Julius Rosenbaum died in Halle on September 6, 1874.

His dissertation was regarded as a comprehensive and learned treatise in which Rosenbaum's historical interest was shown in his early years. Julius Pagel describes him as an honest, hardworking and learned doctor. Although he was unable to obtain a professorship, he made a name for himself outside of Germany for his services, especially in historical pathology. He also worked on the fourth edition of Kurt Sprengel's history. The first volume of this fourth edition appeared in Leipzig in 1846, but Rosenbaum did not publish any further volumes.

Fonts

• De sexuali organismorum fabrica disquisitionum anatomico-historicarum spec. 1. (Dissertation, 1832).
• Analecta quedam ad sectionis Caesareae antiquates , commentatio quam pro venia docenti in academia Fridericia Halensi rite impetranda d. XIV. Mens. Maii a. MDCCCXXXVI. OCLC 758450949 una cum thesibus (Habilitation thesis Halle 1836).
• History of the lust epidemic in antiquity for doctors, philologists and antiquarians presented. Hall 1839; 7th, revised edition, enlarged with an appendix, Verlag von H [ermann] Barsdorf, Berlin 1904 (title: History of the lust epidemic in antiquity together with detailed studies on the Venus and phallic cults, brothels, Νοῦσος ϑήλεια of the Scythians, paederasty and other sexual ones The debauchery of the ancients is represented as contributions to the correct explanation of their writings. ) Reprint: Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1971 (edition for S. Karger, Basel / Munich /…).
• as publisher: Additamenta ad Lud. Choulanti bibliothecam medico-historicam , sumptibus Jo. Ms. Lipperti, Halis Saxonum / Ploetzian, Halle 1842, OCLC 8092242 (Latin, contains list of authors).
• On the history and criticism of the theory of skin diseases, with special reference to the genesis of the elementary forms. Hall 1844.
• The onanism or self-defilement, not both vice and sin, but a real illness, in its origin and its consequences, together with instructions for its healing for educated parents, educators and the sick. Leipzig 1845.
• Nine years from the life of a private docent. A contribution to the inner history of the medical faculty in Halle. Leipzig 1847.

literature

• Julius Pagel :  Rosenbaum, Georg August Wilhelm Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 200 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Julius Rosenbaum  - Sources and full texts

• Entry on Julius Rosenbaum in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis