Karl Eigenbrodt

Karl Eigenbrodt (born February 7, 1826 in Darmstadt ; † May 25, 1900 in Darmstadt) was a physician and politician. He investigated the links between hygiene and the outbreak of infectious diseases.

Life

Karl Eigenbrodt was born in 1826 as the son of the Hessian lawyer and politician Karl Christian Eigenbrodt (1769–1839) and his wife Louise née Bojanus (1789–1880). Eigenbrodt, who was a Protestant denomination, married Rosalie Weyland (1834–1900). Between 1860 and 1864 the marriage resulted in three daughters and one son.

He studied medicine at the Hessian Ludwig University , the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg . In Gießen he became active in the Allemannia fraternity in 1844 and in the Corps Starkenburgia in 1845 . In 1847 he became a member of the old Heidelberg fraternity . With a dissertation on Theodor von Bischoff he received his doctorate in 1849 in Giessen for Dr. med. He then worked as a general practitioner. Since 1851 military doctor in the Darmstadt military hospital , in 1854 he was transferred to the Leibgarde Infantry Regiment (1st Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 115 . He was promoted to senior physician in 1859, but retired from military service two months later on request. On December 1, 1877 he became personal physician to Ludwig IV (Hessen-Darmstadt) .

From 1862 to 1866 he was a member of the German Progressive Party in the state parliament of the Grand Duchy of Hesse for the constituency, constituency Oberhessen 10 / Nidda. He was a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1862 to 1865 and a member of the Darmstadt city council from 1868 to 1880.

In his medical writings Eigenbrodt dealt in particular with issues of hygiene and the spread of epidemics . A particular point of criticism from him was the poor construction of the sewer system in many cities, especially in Darmstadt, and their improper use for the disposal of faeces.

Honors

Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Ludwig , Knight's Cross 1st Class (December 14, 1878)
Secret Medical Council (January 1, 1879)
Privy Councilor (March 26, 1892)
Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order , Commander's Cross 1st Class (1892)
Order of Saint Stanislaus II class with the star (1896)
Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit , Commander's Cross 1st Class (January 16, 1899)
Honorary member of the Association of Hessian Doctors (1899) for his commitment to the independence of doctors from the state
Honorary member of the Corps Starkenburgia

Fonts

On the conduction laws in the spinal cord , 1849 (dissertation)
On the diagnosis of partial paralysis of sensation, especially paralysis of the sense of touch (apselaphesia) , Virchows Archiv, XXIII.
The apoplectic destruction of the uterine mucosa , 1863.
City cleaning, the most important task of the medical police , 1868.
Contributions to more detailed knowledge of the typhus epidemic in Friedberg in the summer of 1867, especially in relation to the etiology , 1869.
Report of the medical history of the attack of diphtheria in the Grand Ducal family of Hesse , 1879.
The Spread of Whooping Cough Through Abortive Cases , Journal of Clinical Medicine, XVII.
On the Influence of Family Disposition on the Spread of Diphtheria , 1893.

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 243-244.
Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 116.
Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, column 450 ( online ).
Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 93.

Web links

Eigenbrodt, Carl in the Hessian biography
Karl Eigenbrodt on www.darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Eigenbrodt, Carl. Hessian biography. (As of February 26, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Eigenbrodt, Karl In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt (accessed March 8, 2016)
↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 57/157
↑ ^a ^b Eigenbrodt, K. On the conduction laws in the spinal cord , 1849 (dissertation). Available at archive.org
↑ Marcus Stippak: Persistent Provisional Solutions - Municipal water supply and wastewater disposal in Darmstadt and Dessau 1869–1989 , 2010, pp. 63, 83 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Eigenbrodt, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eigenbrodt, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physicians and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH	February 7, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH	Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH	May 25, 1900
Place of death	Darmstadt

[HessBiografie-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Eigenbrodt, Carl. Hessian biography. (As of February 26, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[StadtlexikonDA-2] Eigenbrodt, Karl In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt (accessed March 8, 2016)

[3] Kösener Corps lists 1910, 57/157

[Dissertation-4] Eigenbrodt, K. On the conduction laws in the spinal cord , 1849 (dissertation). Available at archive.org

[5] Marcus Stippak: Persistent Provisional Solutions - Municipal water supply and wastewater disposal in Darmstadt and Dessau 1869–1989 , 2010, pp. 63, 83 f.