Justus Radius

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Justus Wilhelm Martin Radius (born November 14, 1797 in Leipzig ; † March 7, 1884 there ) was a German pathologist .

Life

Radius attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . He studied medicine from 1816 , received his master's degree in 1820 and a doctorate in medicine in 1821 . From 1821 he was a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . Radius completed his habilitation in 1822. In 1825 he became associate professor for hygiene and general pathology at the University of Leipzig . He also worked as a freelance doctor and ophthalmologist . In addition, he was given the partial chair for psychological therapy in 1843 and continued Heinroth's psychiatric lectures until the partial chair was dissolved informally in 1848. From 1832 to 1853 he worked in the Georgenhaus at Leipziger Brühl . In 1840 he finally became a full professor of pathology.

Radius was a member of the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palms .

With the help of the Radius Brandstetter Foundation , Radius' wife Wilhelmine geb. Brandstetter († October 17, 1890) after the death of her husband , the new building of the Leipzig Conservatory designed by Hugo Licht at Grassistraße 8 was built in 1887 .

Honors

In 1910 was in the Leipzig district Lindenau the radius road by Justus Radius and his wife Wilhelmine named.

Works

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Holger Steinberg: Psychiatry at the University of Leipzig: A two hundred year tradition. In: Würzburger medical history reports 23, 2004, pp. 270–312; here: p. 275 f.
  2. ^ University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig: History of the University, Foundation and Development in the 19th Century (accessed on November 17, 2017).
  3. Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 174.