Karl Kühns (dentist)

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Carl Heinrich Diederich Kühns around 1905

Karl Heinrich Diederich Kühns (also: Carl Heinrich Diederich Kühns , born September 25, 1850 in Lüneburg ; † April 22, 1918 in Hanover ) was a German dentist , patron and freemason as well as a pioneer in the development of systematic dental care for school children.

Life

Born in Lüneburg at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover . 1866 Start of apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Lüneburg and Dresden. 1873 Studied dentistry at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin with state examination and practice as a dentist in Hanover in 1875. 1883 co-founder of the "Dental Association for Lower Saxony" and 1887-1908 its chairman. Carl Kühns opened "[...] the first private dental outpatient clinic in Germany" in 1888 during the founding years of the German Empire in Hanover . The clinic founded by Kühns "[...] was open to all poor ", especially children, but also destitute adults.

Kühns was one of those dentists in Germany who carried out series examinations on children to promote both the first initiatives and the further development of systematic dental care for school children.

In 1895 Carl Kühns wrote a philosophical dissertation at the University of Erlangen . The following year, on March 5, 1896, Kühns was accepted into the Masonic lodge Zum Schwarzen Bär in Hanover .

Honors

  • The Kühn Street in Hanover district Kirchrode was named after the patron.

Fonts

  • The preservation of the teeth and the care of the mouth. Helwing, Hanover 1876.
  • Studies on the chem. Composition of the hard tooth substances in humans at different ages. In: German monthly for dentistry. 1895, pp. 362-377, 450-465.
  • The human teeth. A hygienic chat. In: Hannoverscher Volks-Kalender. 37th year (1906), pp. 55–58.

literature

  • Dominik Groß : The beginnings of school dental care in Germany . In the other: Contributions to the history and ethics of dentistry , Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3314-0 , p. 152
  • Ulrich Hempel: The Hanoverian dentist Dr. phil. Carl Kühns (1850–1918) , dissertation 1973 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne, 1973
  • 2. Annual report of the Association of Former Students of the Johanneum in Lüneburg 1913, page 20
  • Dental Association for Lower Saxony. Half a century of hard work and success. In: Supplement to Hannoversche Kurier No. 166/67, Saturday, April 8, 1933

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Siegfried Schildmacher, Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (ed.): Carl Kühns . In Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through the streets of Hanover. Self-published, Hannover 2015, p. 92
  2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Kühns, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kühns, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dentist, clinic founder and patron as well as Freemason
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1918
Place of death Hanover