Karl Schönborn

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Carl Wilhelm Schönborn

Karl Wilhelm Schönborn , also Carl Schönborn (born May 8, 1840 in Breslau , † December 10, 1906 in Würzburg ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

Schönborn's father was a grammar school director in Breslau. After high school at Mary Magdalene School in Breslau studied Schönborn medicine in Breslau, then in Heidelberg, Göttingen and then Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1863 and in 1864 passed the university exam. In 1863 he was assistant to Robert Friedrich Wilms at the Bethanien hospital in Berlin . From 1864 to 1871 he worked at the II. Surgical University Clinic under Bernhard von Langenbeck , whom he represented in 1870 as head of the University Clinic, the Kaiserin Augusta Hospital and the Jewish Hospital because of his absence due to the war . After the end of the Franco-Prussian War (1871), at the request of the Empress Augusta , he was appointed to the surgical chair of the Albertus University in Königsberg against the suggestion of the faculty , even though he was not qualified as a professor . In 1881/82 he was Vice Rector of the Albertina . In 1886 he accepted the call to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1891/92 he was its rector . He was dean of the medical faculty several times . He died with 66 years at a pneumonia .

Schönborn had an outstanding reputation as a surgeon and clinician, organizer and teacher. In 1890 a new auditorium and operating theater was built under him. He expanded the field of surgery to include ear, nose and throat diseases , urology and orthopedics .

With the doctor and councilor Max Pretzfelder, he founded a private surgical clinic in Würzburg in 1897, which moved on May 1, 1899 from its first location in the “Russischer Hof” hotel (Theaterstrasse 1) to Wolframstrasse.

In 1887 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Schönborn was married to Rose Küstner . Her son Walther Schönborn (1883–1956) was full professor of law in Heidelberg and Kiel , her son Siegfried Schönborn (1874–1966) was an adjunct professor of internal medicine and chief physician (director of the municipal hospitals) in Remscheid .

literature

  • Julius Nicolaus Weisfert: Biographical-literary lexicon for the capital and royal seat of Königsberg and East Prussia. 2nd Edition. Koenigsberg 1898.
  • Franz Neubert: German contemporary lexicon. Biographical manual of contemporary German men and women. Schulze, Leipzig 1905.
  • L. Burkhardt : Carl Schönborn †. In: Munich Medical Weekly. 8, 1930, pp. 374-376.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rector's speeches
  2. ↑ Walter Michael Brod: To the father Michael Brod (1954). In: Tempora mutantur et nos? Festschrift for Walter M. Brod on his 95th birthday. With contributions from friends, companions and contemporaries. Edited by Andreas Mettenleiter , Akamedon, Pfaffenhofen 2007 (= From Würzburgs Stadt- und Universitätsgeschichte, 2), ISBN 3-940072-01-X , pp. 24–29, here: pp. 25–29
  3. ^ Member entry by Carl Schönborn at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ Walter Marle (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire therapy with diagnostic information. 2 volumes, 4th revised edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1935 ( directory of employees ) - Siegfried Schönborn collaborated on neurological issues.
  5. ↑ Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, p. 242 f.
personal data
SURNAME Schönborn, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoenborn, Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1906
Place of death Wurzburg