Karl Heinrich Christian Bartels

Karl Heinrich Christian Bartels (born September 25, 1822 in Meilsdorf , † June 20, 1878 in Kiel ) was a German doctor and university professor.

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Karl Heinrich Christian Bartels was a son of Ludwig Franz Bartels (* 1782) and his wife Anna Catharina Johanna, née Hoffmann. From 1815 to 1839, the father leased the Meilsdorf estate in what is now Siek , where Karl Heinrich Christian Bartels was born. The father had to give up the lease due to financial problems and later moved to Altona . Bartels received lessons from a private teacher and then made an agricultural training. Since his older brother was studying medicine, his parents could not finance him to study medicine of his own. Instead, he worked as a clerk at Gut Groß Flottbek and made friends with students at the Christianeum in Altona . The patronessMathilde Arnemann financed him medical studies, which he began in 1845 at the University of Kiel .

Since the teaching conditions at Kiel University turned out to be inadequate, Bartels moved to Heidelberg University in 1846 . Here he heard anatomy with Friedrich Tiedemann , physics with Jolly, physiology with Jakob Henle , medical clinic with Pfeuffer, surgery with Franz von Chelius and obstetrics with Franz Naegele . In the winter of 1847 he went to the polyclinic in Kiel and assisted Ferdinand Weber . In 1848 he worked for some time as a field clerk in the Rantzauschen Corps and later as a junior doctor in the Holstein Army . Louis Stromeyer put Bartels at the forefront of caring for the severely injured because of his practical skills and reliability.

In 1849 Bartels fell ill with a serious lung disease from which he suffered for life and which triggered chronic emphysema . After the medical state examination in 1850, he did his doctorate at Kiel University and then worked as an assistant doctor at the Medical Polyclinic with Carl Conrad Theodor Litzmann , Louis Stromeyer and Wilhelm Griesinger . After his habilitation in 1851 he worked as assistant to Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs at the medical clinic and received an introduction to physiological chemistry from him. Bartels himself gave courses on physical diagnostics. After Frerichs left, Bartels took over the provisional management of the medical polyclinic. Then he worked as an assistant to the new manager Emil Friedrich Götz .

In 1854 Bartels took over a practice that had been run by Georg Weber. Due to his expertise and popularity, the doctor was so popular that he ended his work as an assistant doctor at the Medical Polyclinic that same year. In 1856 he founded the Physiological Association together with Pan. After Emil Friedrich Götze's death in 1858, Bartels took over the management of the polyclinic. In 1859 he was appointed full professor of pathology and director of the medical clinic. In 1864 he was offered a professorship in Nuremberg , which he did not follow. In 1865 he co-founded the Schleswig-Holstein Doctors Association and the Kiel Local Association for joint work in the field of medicine as a whole .

In 1870 Bartels, who was privately connected to Julius Friedrich Cohnheim , developed pleurisy . He traveled to several cures in Davos , Wiesbaden and Montreux without getting completely healthy again. He died in Kiel in 1878. His friend and poet Klaus Groth wrote a poem on the occasion of his death.

Works

In his work, Bartels described, among other things, the treatment of typhoid fever with cold water, the treatment of fevers with cold, the mechanical treatment of the stomach, diffuse kidney diseases and the use of salicylic acid in therapy. In 1875 he wrote the main work, the "Handbook of Diseases of the Urinary Apparatus".

literature

• Edith Feiner: Bartels, Karl Heinrich Christian . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 64–65