Karl Hecker (doctor)

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Karl Friedrich Franz Hecker (born November 6, 1812 in Eichtersheim , Kraichgau ; † October 28, 1878 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

origin

Karl Friedrich Hecker was the son of Josef Hecker, who was a Catholic and royal Bavarian councilor and rent bureau for the Lords of Venningen . His mother Wilhelmina geb. von Lueder was Protestant. Karl was born one year after his famous brother Friedrich Hecker (* 1811). A sister, Henriette Josephine Maria Anna Charlotte was born on March 2, 1814, the only child in Heidelberg. The brother Franz Ferdinand Friedrich Karl was born again on August 12, 1816 in Eichtersheim, but died on August 27, 1816. His second sister, Charlotte Maria Anna Henriette, was born on July 24, 1817 in Eichtersheim. No further information is available about them. Karl Friedrich married Josepha Amalia Adelheid Pyhrr in Eichtersheim on November 12, 1837, daughter of Josef Pyhrr and Josepha Bilger.

Life

Hecker attended the Lyceum in Mannheim until 1830. After the Lyceal exam in Rastatt , he enrolled at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg for medicine. In 1831 he became a member of the Rhenania III corps country team . He passed the state examination in 1835 and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He then went on a study trip to Munich and Paris. In 1836 he completed his habilitation at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg for surgery and ophthalmology . As a private lecturer he took over the surgical lectures of the sick and later deceased Karl Joseph Beck . Hecker's appointment as associate professor followed in 1839 . In 1848 Hecker provisionally succeeded Louis Stromeyer, who had been appointed to Kiel, as head of the clinic. He took over this post in 1855 and became full professor . In 1871 Hecker, suffering from bronchial asthma, retired at his own request. In 1878 he died of acute miliary tuberculosis at the age of 66 .

Publications

  • The indications of the stone breaking method. University printing house of the Groos brothers, Freiburg 1836.
  • Manual of the Materia Chirurgica. Herder, Freiburg 1838.
  • On the importance of the surgical anatomy. Freiburg 1839.
  • Nosological-therapeutic investigations into the smoky destruction by obstruction of the blood circulation. Balz, Stuttgart 1841 ( online ).
  • Experience and treatises in the field of surgery and ophthalmology. Enke, Erlangen 1845 ( online ).
  • The elephantiasis or leprosy arabica. M. Schauenburg, Lahr 1858.
  • About sacked stones and foreign bodies in the bladder. Prorectorate program. University printing house of HM Poppen & Sohn, Freiburg 1861 ( online ).

literature

  • Cajetan Jäger (Ed.): Gelehrtes Baden, or list of writers living in the Grand Duchy of Baden: with details of the main features of their careers and the writings they have published. First issue, the writers living in Freiburg im Breisgau . Wangler, Freiburg 1839, pp. 66-67 ( digitized version ).
  • Ernst Julius Gurlt :  Hecker, Karl Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 213 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 119 , 320
  2. ^ Grossherzoglich-Baden Government Gazette, Volume 53, p. 30
personal data
SURNAME Hecker, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hecker, Karl Friedrich Franz; Hecker, Carl Friedrich Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Eichtersheim
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1878
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau