Karl Holzapfel

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Karl Holzapfel (born December 25, 1866 in New York City , † December 8, 1942 in Kiel ) was a German obstetrician, gynecologist and university professor.

Life

In 1872 the Holzapfel family moved to Germany. Karl Holzapfel attended the Schulpforta high school . After graduating from high school in Kassel , he studied medicine at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg , the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . He was a member of the Corps Rhenania Würzburg (1886) and Rhenania Strasbourg (1886). He did not have to do military service because of his dual citizenship .

On December 6, 1890, he passed the medical state examination. In the summer of the same year his doctorate he in Strasbourg to Dr. med. He made boat trips to South and North America and initially spent some time with the therapeutic gymnast Thure Brandt in Stockholm . He began his specialist training in Strasbourg, 1892/93 first in Wilhelm Alexander Freund 's gynecological clinic , then at the medical outpatient clinic. In 1896 he went to the women's clinic in Erlangen University Hospital for three years . In 1899 he moved to the Kiel Clinic and completed his habilitation with Richard Werth . In 1901 he settled in Kiel . Highly respected in the population and in circles of the Imperial Navy , he became an associate professor at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel in 1904 . He was an avid hunter . Ailing since 1937, he ran the doctor's practice a few days before his death.

With his wife Elfriede geb. Petersen he had two daughters and two sons. Rhenania Strasbourg awarded him honorary membership. In 1940 Eberhard Philipp presented Holzapfel with the renewal of his doctoral degree after 50 years at the University of Strasbourg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 143/300; 100/109
  2. ^ Archives Corps Rhenania Würzburg
  3. ^ A b c Eberhard Philipp: Karl Holzapfel † . In: Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie 9 (1943), pp. 401-403.
  4. ^ Message from Konrad Holzapfel, Wester-Ohrstedt
personal data
SURNAME Holzapfel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1942
Place of death Kiel