Karl Wilhelm Stark

Karl Wilhelm Stark (born May 18, 1787 in Jena ; † May 18, 1845 ibid) was a German doctor, internist and medical theorist .

Life

Karl Wilhelm Stark was born on May 18, 1787 in Jena as the son of the obstetrics professor Johann Christian Stark . He studied medicine from 1804 to 1807 in Jena. He then worked as a "court medicus" with Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar. In this capacity he accompanied the Prince in 1810 and the Grand Duchess to Teplitz in 1811. It was only in the last year mentioned that he obtained the inaugural treatise “Diss. qua intimus graviditatis, lactationis mensiumque profluvii consensus et convenientia ex propria mulieris vi et natura deductus demonstratur ”in Jena under Christian Gottfried Gruner , then made four years of scientific trips from Teplitz to Vienna, Italy, Paris, Berlin and Halle, returned In 1813 he temporarily returned to Jena, where he became a personal physician and, in 1814, an associate professor for general pathology and therapy at the University of Jena and took part in the French campaign in 1814.

He took up his permanent residence in Jena in 1815 and from then on devoted himself to the academic teaching profession. After refusing an offer to Berlin, he was appointed court counselor and grand ducal personal physician in 1817, extraordinary assessor of the medical faculty and the academic senate in 1823, full professor in 1826, and privy councilor in 1836. After the death of his father in 1838 he took over the management of the state hospitals. A year later, Stark became a city physician.

family

His son is the archaeologist Karl Bernhard Stark , his son-in-law is his student and art historian Friedrich Klopfleisch .

Works

• Pathological Fragments, two volumes, 1824–1825, Weimar
• General pathology or general natural science of disease, Leipzig 1838; 2nd edition in two volumes, ibid. 1844 and 1845.

literature

• Julius Pagel:  Strong, Karl Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 491 f.
• Axel W. Bauer : The theory of disease by Karl Wilhelm Stark (1787-1845): Ontological pathology as an analogy model . In: Sudhoffs. Arch. No. 69 (2) , 1985, pp. 129-153 , PMID 2937184 .
• Axel W. Bauer: Stark, Karl Wilhelm. In: Werner E. Gerabek u. a. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1356 f.