Karl Wenzel (doctor)

Karl August Wenzel (born April 25, 1769 in Mainz , † October 19, 1827 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German medic .

Life

Wenzel was the son of the medical professor and court judge Joseph Franz Wenzel (1733–1776). In 1786 he came to Mainz University , where he studied medicine. In 1791 he was the same with his brother Joseph Wenzel with the dissertation inter Commentatio forcipes Levretianam, Leakianam et Johnsonianam to Dr. med. PhD . The two brothers then undertook a long journey through Bavaria, Austria, Württemberg and Italy, where they were able to collect extensive data in Vienna, among other places . After their return, they made suggestions on how to improve medical care in rural areas. A typeface that attracted attention.

Wenzel became an assessor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Mainz in 1794 . In 1795 he moved to Frankfurt am Main as a doctor, although he was not officially accepted into the city's medical profession until 1798. In 1804 he made the first artificial premature birth operation in Germany in Frankfurt. Prince Primate Karl Theodor von Dalberg appointed him his personal physician in 1806 and awarded him the title of Privy Councilor, and in 1812 he became director and professor of medicine and surgery at the Grand Ducal Medical and Surgery School in Frankfurt, which, however, had to be closed again in 1813 for financial reasons.

Wenzel was appointed City Accoucheur of Frankfurt in 1824 . As early as 1803 he became a full member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt , but also of other academies.

Honors

Wenzel received the following medals:

• Knight of the Russian Order of Saint Anne
• Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle
• Knight of the Grand Ducal Frankfurt Order of Concord

Fonts

• with Joseph Wenzel : Remarks on dropsy of the brain. Cotta, Tübingen 1806.
• with Joseph Wenzel: Remarks on the structure of the fully grown wing and tail feathers. Cotta, Tübingen 1807.
• with Joseph Wenzel: About the spongy outgrowths on the outer meninges: with six copper plates. Kupferberg, Mainz 1811.
• About the induration and the ulcer in indurated parts. Kupferberg, Mainz 1815.
• About the diseases of the uterus. With 12 copper and just as many linear boards. Kupferberg, Mainz 1816.

literature

• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 551 f .
• Julius Pagel :  Wenzel, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 739.
• Michael Kutzer: “About Nature and Art in Medicinal Science” Karl Wenzel (1769–1827) as a teacher and critic of obstetrics of his time. In: Medizinhistorisches Journal , Volume 20 (1985), pp. 391-416.

Web links

• Works by and about Karl Wenzel  in the German Digital Library
• Karl Wenzel , in the directory of professors at the University of Mainz (accessed on August 6, 2019)
• Portrait of Karl Wenzel in the portrait collection of the Senckenberg Foundation with biographical information

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Josef Wenzel , in: Directory of Professors at the University of Mainz (accessed on August 6, 2019).
2. ↑ Samuel Christian Lucae : Joseph Wenzels Leben . In: Joseph Wenzel's observations on the appendage of people with epilepsy , Kupferberg, Mainz 1810, p. IV.
3. ↑ Suggestions for improving surgical facilities in the country , Frankfurt am Main 1794.
4. ↑ Samuel Christian Lucae: Joseph Wenzels Leben . In: Joseph Wenzel's observations on the appendage of people with epilepsy , Kupferberg, Mainz 1810, pp. XII f.
5. ^ ^{A b} Samuel Christian Lucae: Outline of the history of the development of the human body , dedication to Wenzel in the title.