Karl Heinrich Reclam (medic)

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Karl Heinrich Reclam (also Carl Heinrich Reclam ; born August 18, 1821 in Leipzig ; † March 6, 1887 ibid) was a German doctor and popular medical writer .

Life

Karl Heinrich Reclam's father was the Leipzig bookseller Carl Heinrich Reclam (1776–1844), the publisher and bookseller Anton Philipp Reclam was his older brother.

Reclam studied medicine in Leipzig , Prague , Vienna and Paris . In this discipline he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1846 with the dissertation De plumarum pennarumque evolutione disquisitio microscopica . In the further course of his academic career he qualified as a professor in 1858 and was first professor of medicine in 1859, then in 1863 extraordinary professor of hygiene and forensic medicine at the University of Leipzig, the latter position he held until the end of his life. He was also a police doctor since 1877 and, in literary terms, has mainly dealt with health care in many writings. He also advocated the introduction of cremation in Germany for reasons of hygiene.

On August 1, 1859, he was elected a member of the Leopoldina , nicknamed Aldrovandus II . He died on March 6, 1887 at the age of 65 in Leipzig.

Fonts

  • Food and choice of meals , Leipzig 1855
  • The cause of chyle and lymph movement and fat absorption , Leipzig 1858 Google Books
  • Mind and body in their interrelationships , Leipzig 1859 Google Books
  • The book of the sensible way of life , Leipzig 1863; 2nd ed. 1876 Google Books
  • The woman's health and beauty , Leipzig 1864, Archive.org ; 2nd ed. 1883
  • The human body, its structure and life , Stuttgart 1870, Google Books ; 2nd edition 1877
  • Language and song , Stuttgart 1878
  • Rules of life , Berlin 1878; 2nd ed. 1893
  • Health key for home, school and work , Leipzig 1878

In addition, Reclam edited several magazines, such as from 1858–61 den Kosmos , 1869–70 the German quarterly journal for public health care , and since 1875 the semi-monthly journal Die Gesundheit, a journal for public and private hygiene .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Heinrich Reclam  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence . Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 288 ( Archive.org )


personal data
SURNAME Reclam, Karl Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reclam, Carl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and popular medical writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1887
Place of death Leipzig