Karl Heinrich Burow
Karl Heinrich August Burow , also Karl August Burow , (born November 10, 1809 in Elbing , † April 15, 1874 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist .
Life
The son of a government secretary attended high school in Danzig and studied medicine at the Albertina from 1830 . Friedrich Burdach and Karl Ernst von Baer were among his teachers . He later became acquainted with Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach , who was his role model. Burow settled in Königsberg as a doctor in 1836. He completed his habilitation in 1839 and became associate professor at the Albertina in 1844. In 1846 he founded a private clinic, which he made available to the Albertina as a polyclinic. Burow resigned his professorship in 1859 and was appointed to the secret medical council of the city magistrate of Königsberg.
In 1866 and 1870 he was consulted general practitioner in the field service. Burow invented the Liquor Burowi , the acetic clay for envelopes. Burow introduced Dieffenbach's squint operation in East Prussia and was one of the advocates of open wound treatment . With the method of the lateral triangle , also known as the Burow operation , he developed a new method of blepharo and cheiloplasty . He also constructed an ophthalmometer .
As a doctor he was extremely popular with the patients who donated the Burow bust after his death and erected it from his house on the Bergplatz in Königsberg. His great-grandson Ernst Meyer found them in the Hamburg bell cemetery and gave them to the college dormitory Collegium Albertinum in Göttingen.
Burow was a Freemason and from 1841 until his death in 1874 member of the lodge Zum Todtenkopf and Phoenix in Königsberg.
literature
- Harry Scholz: The doctor Karl Heinrich Burow . 1964
- Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
- Richard Armstedt: history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia . Reprint of the original edition, Stuttgart 1899.
- Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia . 3 volumes, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X
- Jürgen Manthey: Königsberg - history of a world citizenship republic . Hanser 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1
- Eberhard Neumann-Redlin von Meding : Karl August Burow (1809–1874). A misunderstood guide to Prussian surgery and ophthalmology . Königsberger Bürgerbrief 74 (2009), pp. 45–47.
- August von Rothmund: Burow, Karl August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 629 f.
- Burow, Karl August . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 3, p. 777.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Hieber : History of the United Johannis Lodge to Todtenkopf and Phoenix zu Königsberg i. Pr. Königsberg 1897, self-published by the author
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burow, Karl Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burow, Karl Heinrich August (full name); Burow, Karl August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon and ophthalmologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elblag |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1874 |
| Place of death | Königsberg (Prussia) |