Karl Schroeder (gynecologist)

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Karl Schroeder. Lithograph by Georg Engelbach

Karl Schroeder or Carl Schröder (born September 11, 1838 in Neustrelitz , † February 7, 1887 in Berlin ; full name: Karl Ludwig Ernst Friedrich Schroeder ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician .

Life

Karl Schroeder was born as the son of the rector of the Higher Girls' School in Neustrelitz, Adolph Friedrich Schröder (1792-1852). Until the autumn of 1858 he attended the local grammar school and then studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg and Rostock . In Würzburg he became a member of the Corps Nassovia . In 1862 he headed the Kosen Congress in Kösen for the SC zu Würzburg as a suburb of the KSCV .

After graduating doctorate he on 15 January 1864, Dr. med. He then accepted an assistant position with Theodor Thierfelder . He abandoned his original plan to become a general practitioner when the gynecologist Gustav Veit (1828–1903) asked him to accompany him to Bonn . Veit had previously received a call to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . After he moved to Bonn in March 1864, he turned to gynecology and obstetrics there. Habilitated in gynecology since 1866 , he was appointed associate professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg for two years . In 1869, Schroeder was appointed professor there as the successor to Eugen Rosshirt (1795–1872) . Until 1876 he was head of the Erlangen University Women's Clinic. Then he followed the call of the Charité to Berlin . The women's clinic there was headed by Karl Schroeder as Eduard Arnold Martin's successor until his death.

With his wife Anna geb. Schroeder Busch had ten children.

Karl Schroeder died in Berlin in 1887 at the age of 48 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Act

In Erlangen, under Schroeder, the obstetric facility was transformed into a gynecological clinic, since for the first time four beds were reserved exclusively for gynecological patients. Schroeder also successfully campaigned for a new clinic and founded Bavaria's fourth midwifery school at the Erlangen women's clinic in 1874. At the same time he was active as an author, his first textbook, the Geburthilfe textbook , appeared in 1870, a manual on diseases of the female genital organs followed in 1874. Both books were very successful and continued into the 1920s. Together with Louis Mayer (1829-1890) and Heinrich Fasbender (* 1843) he published the magazine for obstetrics and gynecology , in which numerous of his articles appeared.

Schroeder's work in surgical gynecology was favored by the antiseptic measures introduced into surgery by Joseph Lister at that time . As a surgeon, Schroeder performed, among other things, total vaginal extirpations for corpus carcinomas (1880) and total extirpations for vaginal carcinomas (1883). His Berlin colleague Carl Ruge (1846–1926) worked in parallel on gynecological histopathology and the early detection of uterine carcinomas.

In Berlin, Karl Schroeder campaigned for a new gynecological clinic to be built, taking into account contemporary findings to improve hygiene . The new clinic was inaugurated in 1881 and combined gynecology and obstetrics in one house.

Honor

On May 27, 1888, a marble bust of the revered man was unveiled in a specially set up "Hall of Honor" in the cloister of the Royal Maternity Hospital Berlin (Artilleriestrasse). The bust is the work of the sculptor Martin Wolff .

Fonts

  • Obstetrics textbook. Cohen, Bonn 1893 ( digitized version ).
  • Diseases of the female genital organs. In: Hugo von Ziemssen : Handbook of special pathology and therapy. Vol. 10. Vogel, Leipzig 1874.

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Schroeder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Karl Schroeder's first and second matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 208 , 225
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Investigations into the carbon dioxide content of the expired air in tuberculosis and emphysema
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 308.
personal data
SURNAME Schroeder, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schroeder, Karl Ludwig Ernst Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and obstetrician
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1887
Place of death Berlin