Karl Damian von Schroff
Karl Damian von Schroff (born September 12, 1802 in Kratzau in Bohemia ; † June 17, 1887 in Graz in Styria) was an Austrian physician and pharmacologist. As this he is one of the most important of the Second Vienna Medical School .
Live and act
Karl Damian Schroff, brother of the physician Emanuel Stephan Schroff (1799-1853), visited Prague , the Lesser Town High School, also studied in Prague medicine and received his doctorate in 1828 for Dr. med. First secondary doctor, he became primary at the newly founded Prague insane asylum and assistant at the Medical University Clinic in 1829. As early as 1830 he taught theoretical medicine for surgeons in Olomouc . In 1835 he came to the University of Vienna , where he also taught this subject. In 1850 he received the newly created chair of general pathology and pharmacology for doctors. At the University of Vienna he set up the pharmacological institute. He devoted himself to both teaching and research. In the academic year 1851/52 he was dean and 1856/57 rector. From 1878 Schroff lived in Graz. From 1850 he was also a member of the Standing Medical Commission in the Ministry of the Interior and, from 1865, of the Supreme Sanitary Council.
His services already began in the Prague madhouse, where he not only instructed the patients in gardening and handicrafts as before, but also introduced them to music and theater. He was also often a psychiatric assessor. He worked as a voluntary family doctor in the Vienna Institute for the Deaf and Mute. In addition to his private practice in Olomouc, he was also in charge of a hospital he had set up, especially in 1831 at the time of a cholera epidemic .
Over the years he has published around 140 publications, including several textbooks.
As an honorary member, he also belonged to numerous institutions, such as the Society of Doctors in Vienna since 1853 , the Leopoldina in Halle in 1860 and the Moscow University . In 1867 he was appointed to the knighthood raised.
Works
- Pocket book of pharmacology and receptivity designed according to the latest standpoints of these sciences . Vienna: Gerold, 1837. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
literature
- K. Ganzinger: Schroff Karl Damian von, pharmacologist and pharmacognostic. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 250 f. (Direct links on p. 250 , p. 251 ).
- Julius Pagel : Schroff, Karl Damian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, p. 216.
- Josef Karl Maly: Systematic description of the medicinal plants growing in the wild and cultivated in Austria. In: Monographs botany flowering plants. Volume 75, 1863, pp. 1–190, PDF (1.2 MB) on ZOBODAT
Web links
- Schroff's painting by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
- Member entry of Karl Damian von Schroff at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on January 14, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Heinz Tragl: History of the Society of Doctors in Vienna since 1838 . Böhlau, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78512-5 , pp. 271 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schroff, Karl Damian von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schroff, Karl Damian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian physician, pharmacologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kratzau , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1887 |
| Place of death | Graz , Styria |