Karl Gustav Schmalz

Karl Gustav Schmalz , also Carl Gustav Schmaltz (born September 13, 1775 in Zeitz , † February 7, 1849 in Dresden ) was a German doctor and author .

life and work

Schmalz was born in today's Zeitz district of Wildenborn as the son of the leaseholder Gottlieb Schmalz and his wife Christiane Regine nee. Hempel born. His brother Johann Friedrich Leberecht Schmalz was born on June 5, 1781 at the Wildenborn manor. In 1789 Karl Gustav moved with his mother to Gera where he attended high school. From 1795 he studied in Jena and received his doctorate there in 1798. Among his teachers were Dr. Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland , to whom he later dedicated his first book. In 1799 Schmalz began his professional career in Lommatzsch. Here he met Johanne Christiane Fabritius. Both married in 1800 and had five children, three of whom died young. The first son Eduard was born on May 18, 1801 in Lommatzsch. In 1807 Schmalz joined Count Hohenthal in Königsbrück as a physician and doctor for the poor. As early as 1808, Schmalz published his first book “An attempt at medical-surgical diagnosis in tables”. Karl Schmalz drew attention to himself in 1816 when he attempted to operate a six-year-old boy in Königsbrück to correct coxalgia, so that this case was reported in some medical articles. In 1819 Schmalz wrote a contribution to the jubilee festival on the Augustusberg on September 18, 1818, the 50th anniversary of the reign of King Friedrich August of Saxony on the occasion of which the Keulenberg was renamed Augustusberg. In the same year, Karl Gustav Schmalz's book about the royal Saxon medical laws is published. In 1820, Schmalz established a widow's fund for Königsbrück. In 1826, the King of Prussia awarded Karl Gustav Schmalz the Great Golden Medal for the fourth edition of his book on medical and surgical diagnostics. Due to wars and marches through Königsbrück, the doctor in the small Saxon town had a lot to do. For his achievements he finally received a lifelong pension from Count Hohenthal, which allowed him to move in 1836 to his son, the medical advisor Eduard Schmalz in Dresden. In the same year he succeeded in founding a widows' fund for doctors, pharmacists and veterinarians in the Kingdom of Saxony. About this achievement he wrote in 1841 the text “About Wittwenkassen and Life Insurance”. The second son, Chief Inspector Moritz Bernhard Schmalz, lived in Mühlbach near Großenhain. On February 7, 1849, Karl Gustav Schmalz died of a stroke, exhausted from his return from a doctor. The 73-year-old wasn't even seriously ill until his death.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Journal for the entire Medicin (1849) - Bavarian State Library. Retrieved August 25, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Karl Gustav Schmalz: Attempt at a medical-surgical diagnosis in tables: or, knowledge and differentiation of internal and external diseases, by juxtaposing similar forms . in Der Arnoldischen Buchhandlung., 1816 ( google.de [accessed on August 25, 2017]).
3. ↑ Yearbooks of all medicine at home and abroad . Otto Wigand, 1836 ( google.de [accessed August 25, 2017]).
4. ↑ General repertory of literature . Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, 1819 ( google.de [accessed on August 25, 2017]).
5. ↑ Leipzig literary newspaper . Breitkopf, 1819 ( google.de [accessed August 25, 2017]).
6. ↑ Carl Gustav Schmalz: The Royal Saxon Medical Laws of Older and Modern Times . 1819 ( google.de [accessed on August 25, 2017]).
7. ^ Journal for the entire Medicin (1849) - Bavarian State Library. Retrieved August 25, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Abend-Zeitung: for the year .... 1826, 1/2 . Arnold, 1826 ( google.de [accessed August 25, 2017]).
9. ^ Karl Gustav Schmalz: About Wittwenkassen and life insurance: Practical and thorough presentation of the principles and experiences . available from the author, 1841 ( google.de [accessed on 25 August 2017]).