Karl Friedrich Quittenbaum

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Karl Friedrich Quittenbaum
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Karl Friedrich Quittenbaum (born November 10, 1793 in Oker ; † August 14, 1852 in Rostock ) was a German doctor and university professor.

Life

Karl Friedrich Quittenbaum was born in Oker near Goslar in 1793 as the son of the goldsmith Friedrich Hermann Quittenbaum. He completed a medical degree at the University of Göttingen . His teachers were the founder of anthropology Johann Friedrich Blumenbach , the gynecologist F. B. Osiander , Karl Himly in the field of ophthalmology and CJM Langenbeck , professor of anatomy . Later on he was still on friendly terms with Langenheck. Quittenbaum received his doctorate in Göttingen on September 5, 1818 with a thesis that described the medical history and the anatomical findings of a lower jaw tumor. From 1818 to 1821 he then practiced as a general practitioner in Lüneburg.

On October 11, 1821 Quittenbaum was appointed prosector and associate professor of medicine at the University of Rostock . In 1831 he was appointed full professor of medicine / anatomy (“Drug and Wound Drug Expertise”). He also began to compile a collection of anatomical specimens , which was donated to the university in 1833 and which brought him the appointment of medical councilor by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II . Several of his preparations can still be found today in the collection of the Anatomical Institute.

In addition to teaching osteology and syndesmology (teaching of bones and ligaments) and physiology, Quittenbaum also taught ophthalmology and read it every summer semester until 1852. Quittenbaum's excellent surgical achievements, which he provided in the time before the introduction of anesthesia and asepsis , can be proven by publications. He was the second German surgeon in 1834 and 1842, the ovariectomy and the first in 1826, the spleen - extirpation daring. In Rostock he was the last “surgical anatomist”, after his death the two disciplines were separated. His successor was Carl Bergmann . Quittenbaum was rector of the university in 1835/1836 and director of the anatomical institute until 1852.

An accident in 1835 and several illnesses as well as a lack of contact and adaptability led in the last years of his life to serious differences with his colleagues Carl Strempel and Hermann Stannius , up to a complete falling out with the faculty. But the guilt for this did not fall on him alone.

family

Karl Friedrich Quittenbaum was first married to Johanna Friederike Meyer from Lüneburg († 1832) and from 1835 in second marriage to Therese Mathilde Hagen, daughter of the Rostock shipper Joh. Siegmund Hagen. Quittenbaum's older brothers were the theologian Friedrich Quittenbaum (* May 9, 1777 in Goslar; † May 1, 1856 in Warnemünde ) and the goldsmith Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Quittenbaum (* December 16, 1778 in Goslar; † April 29, 1835 in Peine ).

Fonts

  • De memorabili quodam maxillae inferioris fungo scrofuloso. Dissertation, Hahn, Hanover 1818
  • Anatomic-pathological objects. 1829
  • Solemnia Christi nati pie celebranda indicit… Inest Commentatio de ovarii hypertrophia et historia exstirpationis ovarii hydropici et hypertrophici prospero cum successu factae. Adler, Rostock 1835 ( BSB digital )
  • Sacra Resurrectionis Jesu Christi AD III. M. Aprilis MDCCCXXXVI. Pie Celebranda Indicit: Commentatio De Splenis Hypertrophia Et Historia Exstirpationis Splenis Hypertrophici Cum Fortuna Adversa In Femina Viva Factae. Adler, Rostock 1836 ( BSB digital )
  • Description of a total extirpation of the right, strongly overgrown hydropic ovary, crowned with completely happy success. 1850

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7895 .
  • Werner Teichmann: Karl Friedrich Quittenbaum. In: Angela Hartwig, Tilmann Schmidt (ed.): The Rectors of the University of Rostock 1419–2000. (= Contributions to the history of the University of Rostock. Issue 23). Universitätsdruckerei Rostock-Universitätsarchiv 2000, ISBN 3-86009-173-5 , p. 141.
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. State office of the Mecklenburg Doctors Association, Schwerin 1929, p. 251.
  • Richard Nikolaus Wegner: On the history of anatomical research at the University of Rostock. In: Fr. Merkel and R. Bonnet (eds.): Anatomische Hefte. Contributions and presentations on anatomy and development history. 55th volume (issue 165-167), published by JF Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1918, pp. 123-127. ( archive.org )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Richard Nikolaus Wegner: On the history of anatomical research at the University of Rostock. See literature.
  2. ↑ Rostock. Lectures at the university there during the summer semester 1829 - lectures by the associate professors:
    Mr. Dr. Karl Friedrich Quittenbaum, associate professor of anatomy and prosector at the anatomical theater, will present: 1) the first half of anatomy, including osteology, syndesmology and myology; 2) ophthalmology; 3) the first part of manual or operative surgery; 4) he offers to do a revision course on anatomy; special instructions for proper, secure performance of the most important surgical operations on human corpses; also a course on the various eye operations.
    […] During the winter semester 1829/30 - lectures by the associate professors:
    Mr. Dr. Karl Friedrich Quittenbaum, associate professor of anatomy and prosector at the anatomical theater, will present: 1) the second half of anatomy, containing plan technology, angiology and neurology; 2) the second part of manual surgery; 3) He gives instruction in dissecting human corpses; 4) Privately, he is required to give revision courses and examinations on anatomy and surgery. In: Intelligence Journal of the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung. CA Schwetschke and Son, Halle 1829, Sp. 355–356 and Sp. 651. ( archive.org )
  3. ↑ Kathleen Haack: The medical faculty of the University of Rostock. Development of specialty disciplines in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In: Kathleen Haack, Emil C. Reisinger (Ed.): The Medical Faculty of the University of Rostock. 600 years in the service of the people (1419–2019). Dean's office of Rostock University Medicine, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gottingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51352-8 , pp. 113–115.
  4. ↑ a b Werner Teichmann: Karl Friedrich Quittenbaum. See literature and writings
  5. ↑ Gustav Willgeroth: Die Mecklenburgischen Dozte… See literature
  6. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7894 .
  7. ^ Wolfgang Scheffler: Goldsmiths of Lower Saxony: data - works - signs. Half volume 1: Aerzen - Hamburg. Half volume 2: Hameln - Zellerfeld. New edition, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-087078-7 , pp. 390/1051.
personal data
SURNAME Quittenbaum, Karl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quittenbaum, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Oker
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1852
Place of death Rostock