Karl Gustav Hesse

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Karl Gustav Hesse (born December 19, 1795 in Sulza in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar , † March 20, 1851 in Wechselburg ) was a German doctor and writer.

Life

Karl Gustav Hesse attended the schools in Kloster-Donndorf and the state school in Pforta . From 1815 to 1820 he studied medicine at the University of Jena and the University of Halle and then attended the Charité in Berlin . He heard private lectures from Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck in Göttingen on eye operations and from Friedrich Benjamin Osiander on practical obstetrics.

After becoming a Dr. med. doctorate, he became co-editor of the general medical annals and the anatomical-physiological real dictionary , on which he worked together with Johann Ludwig Choulant for Johann Friedrich Pierer . Shortly afterwards, Johann Friedrich Pierer entrusted him with the exclusive editing of the annals until 1824.

After his state examination in Altenburg , he moved to Gößnitz in 1824 and was appointed as his personal physician to Wechselburg by Count Alban von Schönburg (1804–1864) in 1827 , where he was also a physician . In 1829 he was appointed to the council by the count.

In 1834 Countess Amalie Christiane Marie von Schönburg-Jenison (1806-1880) set up an infirmary, which he headed as a doctor; From this a deaconess institution was established in 1843 , at which deaconesses were trained who were sent to other hospitals. Shortly before his death, the association with the Dresden Diakonissenanstalt took place .

He remained in constant literary contact with Hofrat Johann Friedrich Pierer and later with his son Heinrich August Pierer . Together they edited the medical articles for the Universal Lexicon of the Past and Present or the latest encylopedic dictionary of the sciences, arts and crafts. Until his death he also worked on the supplements to the 2nd edition of the Universal Lexicon, which had been published since 1850 .

In the last ten years before his death, he devoted himself to editing a comprehensive medical dictionary, which he could no longer complete.

In addition to his literary activities, he occupied himself with practical experiments on the spleen during his stays in Altenburg and Gößnitz; he published the results in several essays in the General Medical Annals .

He also mastered the English language and already translated some works as a student, for example Thomas Copeland's (1781–1855) remarks on diseases of the spine .

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SURNAME Hesse, Karl Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hesse, Carl Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulza
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1851
Place of death Wechselburg