Karl Heitmüller

Karl Georg Hermann Heitmüller (born August 30, 1864 in Klein Pallubin, Berent district (West Prussia); † January 28, 1951 in Göttingen ) was a German dentist and one of the founders of the dental faculty at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Life

Study and job

Heitmüller studied medicine in Göttingen from 1884 to 1886 and then moved to the University of Berlin, where he specialized in dentistry . During his studies he became a member of the Göttingen Wingolf . After the state examination in 1887, he returned to Göttingen and opened a practice here that had been on Theaterplatz since 1892. In 1890 he earned his doctorate in Dental Surgery in Philadelphia , USA . His habilitation failed in 1892 due to the lack of a medical license . In 1894 he was appointed unpaid teacher of dentistry at the University of Göttingen. He expanded his practice with his own resources to become a teaching institute and in 1908 was awarded the personal title of professor . In 1920 he then took over the management of the dental institute founded in 1919. In 1951 he died in Göttingen and was buried in the city cemetery.

Significance for dentistry

Heitmüller belongs to a generation of dentists who often fought in vain for academic recognition. For Göttingen he did the first pioneering work for the Dental Institute at the end of the 19th century, which was not widely recognized until the 1920s, when Hermann Euler came to Göttingen. Heitmüller's opponents at the medical faculty were u. a. Max Runge and Wilhelm Ebstein . When Heitmüller invited the members of the medical faculty to visit his self-financed polyclinic in a villa in Göttingen on October 15, 1899, only two unnamed faculty members accepted the invitation. The Faculty's criticism was based primarily on Heitmüller's demands for money, which were viewed as excessive.

Honors

Göttingen memorial plaque on his house at Theaterplatz 7, Göttingen

literature

Hans-Peter Huber: Karl Heitmüller. Dentist. Speech on the occasion of the unveiling of a memorial plaque on December 10, 1994, Theaterplatz 7., Göttinger Jahrbuch 43, 1995, pp. 147–150.
Volker Zimmermann, Ulrich Thriller: 250 Years of Medicine at Georgia Augusta , in: Hans-Günther Schotter (Ed.): The History of the Constitution and the Faculties of the Georg August University in Göttingen , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, p. 82-83.

Web links

Karl Heitmüller memorial plaque on the pages of the Göttingen City Archives

Individual evidence

^ List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf. Year 2007, p. 12.
↑ See short biography in Walter Nissen, Christina Prauss, Siegfried Schütz: Göttinger Gedenktafeln. A biographical guide. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, pp. 101-102. ISBN 3-525-30081-6 .
↑ Cf. Volker Zimmermann: "Bringing a Medicinische Facultät into Flor", on the history of the medical faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2009, pp. 76-77. ISBN 978-3-940344-98-4 .

personal data
SURNAME	Heitmüller, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heitmüller, Karl Georg Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German dentist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Klein Pallubin, Berent district (West Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH	January 28, 1951
Place of death	Goettingen

[1] List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf. Year 2007, p. 12.

[2] See short biography in Walter Nissen, Christina Prauss, Siegfried Schütz: Göttinger Gedenktafeln. A biographical guide. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, pp. 101-102. ISBN 3-525-30081-6 .

[3] Cf. Volker Zimmermann: "Bringing a Medicinische Facultät into Flor", on the history of the medical faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2009, pp. 76-77. ISBN 978-3-940344-98-4 .