Julius Schwabe (doctor)

Julius Schwabe (born January 29, 1821 in Weimar ; † February 1, 1892 in Jena ) was a German doctor in Blankenburg near Rudolstadt .

Life

Schwabe studied law and later medicine in Jena. During his studies he became a member of the Jena fraternity in 1835 . In 1844 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD .

Before he came to Blankenburg, he ran a state insane asylum in Blankenhain . He owned a private sanatorium for the mentally ill in Blankenburg. In 1867 he had the first sanatorium built in Blankenburg. So he introduced lying cures in the open air, as he recognized the beneficial effects of the local air climate. Schwabe is therefore regarded as a pioneer in the development of Blankenburg into a health resort.

A year before his death, his Harmless Stories: Memories of a Weimaraner was published .

Julius Schwabe was married to Emilie Schwabe, b. Horn from Blankenburg.

He was the son of Weimar Mayor Carl Leberecht Schwabe . He promoted his father's estate, the records of his burial in 1805 and the exhumation of the poet Friedrich Schiller in 1826, for printing. These files and testimonies published by him, in turn, are important for the knowledge about the whereabouts of the skull of this German poet.

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 636–637.

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SURNAME	Schwabe, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 29, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weimar
DATE OF DEATH	February 1, 1892
Place of death	Jena