Albrecht Wagner (doctor)

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Albrecht Wagner

Karl Ernst Albrecht Wagner (born June 3, 1827 in Berlin ; †  February 15, 1871 in the Dole field hospital ) was a German surgeon, medical officer and university professor.

Life

Albrecht Wagner was born in Berlin in 1827 as the son of the physician Wilhelm Wagner and his wife Julie, née Albrecht. From 1844 he studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and for a short time at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . There he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia in 1846 . In Berlin he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . Since 1850 assistant to Bernhard von Langenbeck , he completed his habilitation in 1852. In 1853 he became senior physician at the municipal hospital in Danzig . In 1858 he followed the call of the Albertus University in Königsberg to the chair of surgery and became director of the surgical clinic. In 1866/67 he was Vice Rector of the Albertina. During the German war he acted as general doctor of the Prussian army . In the same year, he was awarded the title of Privy Medical Councilor for his services in this war . In the Franco-Prussian War he died of typhus when he was only 43 years old . He was buried in the Scholar Cemetery (Königsberg) with great public sympathy . From 1888 to 1933, the Todtengasse (1639–1888) in Königsberg was named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 71/324.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: De Spatulariarum anatome .
  3. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, p. 329.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Karl Ernst Albrecht (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon, medical officer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1871
Place of death Dole , France