Justus Hecker

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Justus Hecker

Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker , also Carl (born January 5, 1795 in Erfurt , † May 11, 1850 in Berlin ) was a German medical historian and university professor .

Live and act

Hecker was a son of the doctor and Erfurt university professor August Friedrich Hecker (1763-1811). In 1805 the family moved from Erfurt, where the father had been a professor of medicine since 1790, to Berlin, where the father took up a professorship in medicine at the Collegium medico-chirurgicum . He studied at the University of Berlin medicine and was Corps Marchia I active. In 1813 he took part in the Wars of Liberation as a volunteer . After the war he continued his studies in Berlin. In July 1817 he became a Doctor of Medicine doctorate . He completed his habilitation in November of the same year and became a private lecturer . As early as 1818, he was also giving lectures on the history of medicine. In 1822 he was appointed associate professor and in 1834 with an independent professor for the history and encyclopedia of medicine as the first full professor for the history of medicine in Berlin. He held this position until his death. In 1844/45 he was rector of the Friedrich Wilhelms University .

Hecker worked on the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Medical Sciences published by the professors of the medical faculty in Berlin . The gynecologist Karl von Hecker (1827–1882) was his son. He is considered the founder of historical pathology , which deals with the history of epidemics . His first significant works in this area were The Black Death in the 14th Century and Die Tanzwuth, a common disease in the Middle Ages . Both writings have been translated into English, the second also into French and Italian. Two years later he published The English Sweat. A medical contribution to the history of the 15th and 16th centuries , then the small work De peste Antoniniana (1835). The later writings are mentioned in Engelmann: Bibliotheca medico-chirurgica 1848, p. 231 and 1868, p. 100. A complete list of Hecker's writings up to 1839 can be found in Callisen: Medical Writer Lexicon , Vol. VIII. P. 235 and Vol. XXVIII. P. 424.

Works

Justus Hecker (lithograph, before 1851)
  • History of medicine. Edited from the sources . Enslin , Berlin 1822-1829. (covers the period from 2000 BC to the fall of the Greek Empire in 1453), Volume 1 , Volume 2
  • Tanzwuth, a widespread disease in the Middle Ages: edited according to the sources for doctors and educated non-doctors . Enslin, Berlin 1832 - Hecker, Justus Friedrich Carl (1832) [1]
  • The Black Death in the Fourteenth Century: Edited from the sources for doctors and educated non-doctors . Herbig, Berlin 1832. English edition 1833 German edition 1832 ; Reprinted by Walluf 1973.
  • About common diseases . A speech. Enslin, Berlin 1832.
  • The English sweat. A medical contribution to the history of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . Berlin 1834. Digitized
  • History of modern medicine , Enslin 1839, online
  • Children's rides. A historical-pathological sketch . Schade, Berlin 1845.
  • About sympathies (1846)
  • About visions (psychological study on the history of Joan of Arc ). A lecture was given at the Scientific Association in Berlin on January 29, 1848 . Enslin, Berlin 1848.
  • The great common diseases of the Middle Ages. Historical-pathological investigations. Collected and edited in expanded form by Dr. August Hirsch . Enslin, Berlin 1865. - Hecker, Justus Friedrich Carl (1865) in Wikiversity , Online
  • The black death and the dancing mania , Cassell 1888, online at Gutenberg

Honors

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Uwe Lammel: Hecker, August Friedrich. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 54 f.
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 10/61
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Antiquitates hydrocephali .
  4. ↑ thesis: Sphygmologiae Galenicae specimen .
  5. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  6. ^ Franz von Winckel :  Hecker, Karl von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, p. 95 f.
personal data
SURNAME Hecker, Justus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hecker, Justus Friedrich Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1850
Place of death Berlin