Karl Ludwig Höppner

Karl Ludwig Fjodorowitsch Höppner ( Russian Карл Людвиг Фёдорович Гепнер ; * 7 September ^July / 19 September  1833 ^greg. In Mitau ; † 10 October ^jul. / 22 October  1874 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a medical doctor from Kurland , Surgeon and professor .

Life

Höppner, son of the miller Friedrich Höppner and his wife Anna Sophia geb. Hochheim, attended the Russian government high school in Mitau from 1849–1854 . He then studied medicine at the St. Petersburg Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy , which later became the Military Medical Academy (WMA) . He concentrated on anatomy , so that due to his talent for dissecting he became Wenzel Gruber's assistant in 1857 as a student . In 1859 he graduated as a doctor with a silver medal . He was then seconded to the 2nd State Hospital and the Anatomy Institute in St. Petersburg for a three-year advanced training course. In 1860 he helped Gruber with the embalming of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna . In the same year, Höppner became an extraordinary ward physician in the women's department of the surgical clinic.

1862 Hoeppner was his dissertation sphincter recti immersive ani tertius for MD PhD. He then became a prosector and, with Gruber's consent , he became a ward doctor with Alexander von Kieter . In 1866 he was given the lecture on descriptive anatomy with a leave of absence from the ward doctor's position. Kieter then asked him to stay with him, which was also granted.

In 1868 Höppner became a lecturer in plastic anatomy at the Imperial Academy of Arts . In the same year he was sent from the Medical and Surgical Academy to Hubert von Luschka for further training in Tübingen . He visited the universities of Berlin , Halle , Frankfurt , Bonn , Heidelberg , Munich , Würzburg , Dresden , Vienna , Zurich , Paris , Lyon , London , and he did internships in Hamburg and Geneva . He visited anatomy museums and he examined the construction of the anatomical theaters in Berlin and Paris. Meanwhile, at Gruber's request, he was dismissed from the anatomical institute due to the disturbed relationship and became a prosector at the academy. After Höppner's return to St. Petersburg, he became Professor Theodor Landzert's prosector and lecturer at the chair for descriptive anatomy.

After the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War , Höppner was sent to Saarbrücken for further training with the support of Grand Duchess Elena Pawlowna , where he headed the Prussian hospital as chief physician and surgical consultant . On his return he became professor-adjunct for practical surgery and surgical anatomy and in 1873 associate professor for surgery at the Medical-Surgical Academy and State Councilor. He also taught anatomy in the gymnastics society and in the barracks for field shears . From 1872 to 1874 he took part in the annual conferences of German surgeons. In 1874 he became vice president of the German Association of St. Petersburg Doctors .

Höppner was buried in the St. Petersburg Lutheran Wolkowo Cemetery. He was married to Karoline Marie geb. Butz.

Honors

• Prussian Crown Order IV. Class for his participation in the Franco-German War

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Höppner, Karl Ludwig (1833–1874) , in: Baltic biografisches Lexikon digital (accessed October 7, 2019).