Carl Arnold Kortum

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Self-Portrait 1782
Scene from the "Jobsiade" in front of the Bochum district court
Bust in the Bochum subway
The grave of Carl Arnold Kortum in the Kortumpark in Bochum
The jobs fountain in Mülheim an der Ruhr

Carl Arnold Kortum (born July 5, 1745 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † August 15, 1824 in Bochum ) was a German general practitioner and mountain doctor, writer, royal councilor and local researcher.

Life

Carl Arnold Kortum was born as the son of the pharmacist Christian Friedrich and his wife Helene Maria, née Severin, in the Broich estate . He attended grammar school in Dortmund from 1760 to 1763 and then studied medicine at the University of Duisburg until 1766 , where he received his doctorate in the same year. After completing his studies, he initially settled as a doctor in Mülheim, where he married Helene Margarethe Ehinger on June 7, 1768. Not until 1770 did he move to Bochum, where he ran a successful practice. He was also interested in history and geography in his spare time . From 1792 to 1807, Kortum was the first miner north of the Ruhr to work in Bochum.

Kortum achieved poetic fame through his contemporary satire life, opinions and deeds of Hieronymus Jobs the candidate, and, as he once gained much fame, finally died as a night watchman in Sulzburg - called Jobsiade for short . The first edition of the work appeared in 1784. Wilhelm Busch was inspired by this to write his picture story Pictures for the Jobsiade .

In 1790, Kortum wrote the first city ​​history of Bochum . He also gave the magistrate a hand-drawn colored city map.

The doctor and medical writer Theodor Kortum (1765-1847) was his cousin, the physician, natural scientist and natural history collector Wilhelm Ludwig Döring (1802-1877) was his grandson and the pharmacist Theodor Löbbecke (1821-1901) was his great-grandson.

Honors and memories

Buschstrasse , named in 1852 and renamed Wilhelm-Busch-Strasse in the southern part of Hanover in 1930, was renamed again in 1936 as Kortumstrasse . At that time also the department store was brothers Alsberg in department store Kortum renamed.

There are further Kortumstraßen in the Ruhr area cities of Duisburg , Mülheim an der Ruhr , Essen and Bochum in the inner cities.

A bronze statue of Job adorns the Kortum fountain in Mülheim-Ruhr on Althofstrasse next to the Petrikirche. The exam scene of the candidate Jobs is also the subject of the character ensemble Jobsiade-Brunnen in front of the Bochum district court ... "Whether the answers of the candidate Job happened a general shaking of the head" . A bust of Kortum can also be found in the subway station at Bochum town hall.

Fonts (selection)

  • Life, opinions and deeds / Of Hieronimus Jobs, the candidate, / And how he once acquired a lot of fame / Also finally died as a night watchman in Sulzburg. Perrenon, Münster and Hamm 1784 (first edition of the first part of the "Jobsiade").
  • The Jobsiade. A grotesquely comical heroic poem in 3 parts. Mallinckrodt, Dortmund 1799 (first edition of the complete “Jobsiade”).
  • A bee calendar, or how a beekeeper should behave after each month while maintaining the bees. Röder, Wesel 1776.
  • Principles of beekeeping, especially for the Westphalian regions. Röder and Heinsius, Wesel / Leipzig 1776.
  • The martyr of fashion. A story of satyrical content. Röder, Wesel 1778.
  • News of the former and current state of the city of Bochum. In: New Westphalian magazine on geography, history and statistics. 1790, pp. 49-80.
  • Of urine as a sign of illness and of the artifacts of urologists when they say illness from it [...]. Duisburg 1793.
  • Health booklet for miners. Blothe, Dortmund 1798.
  • Sketch of a contemporary and literary history of the art of medicine from its origins to the beginning of the nineteenth century. For doctors and non-doctors. Hesselmann, Unna 1809.
  • Reader Carl Arnold Kortum (= Nyland's small Westphalian library. Vol. 40). Compiled and with an afterword by Hans H. Hanke. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2013.

literature

Other sources

  • City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, inventory 882 (Kortumammlung)
  • Bochum City Archives, largest part of the CA Kortum estate (Kortum collection)

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Arnold Kortum  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Kortumstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 148
personal data
SURNAME Kortum, Carl Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cortum, Carl Arnold; Cortum, Carl Arnold; Kortum, Karl Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, writer and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1824
Place of death Bochum