Louis de Leuw

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Louis de Leuw painted by FA de Leuw (1857/58)

Louis de Leuw (born January 21, 1819 in Gräfrath ; † June 2, 1858 ibid) was a German medic. He was a representative of the enlightened, the ideals of the French Revolution committed educated middle class that no longer desired in the official status of a sovereign, but as Rudolf Virchow , with which he had at the same time studied medicine in Berlin "is the natural advocate for the poor was".

Career

Louis de Leuw was the second of four sons of the ophthalmologist Friedrich Hermann de Leuw , who moved many patients from Europe and overseas to Gräfrath on the northern edge of Solingen in the 19th century . The occasional Germanization of his name to Ludwig does not correspond to the birth certificate, but is due to the Francophobia of the time . The writer Maria Lenzen , b. Sebregondi, was his cousin through his paternal grandmother (Anna Maria Claaßen, who with Arnold Sebregondi had the son Rutger). Through his mother, Johanna Maria Herder, he was related to the Abraham Herder family of manufacturers in Solingen .

In the elementary school in Gräfrath he was first taught by teacher Korholt and in high school material by pastors. From 1835 he attended the Catholic grammar school in Cologne (today: Dreikönigsgymnasium ), in 1836 he switched to the grammar school in Elberfeld , which he also left in October 1837, although he was recognized as having a laudable endeavor to fill in the previously significant gaps, which was within the Year but not quite succeeded. For the next two years he worked in agriculture on Gut Grünewald and from October 1839 switched to the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne, whose teacher Peter Hoß he later thanked for his humanity and dignity. The main subject was Latin, other foreign languages ​​were Greek, French and Hebrew. English was not taught.

From the winter semester of 1841 he studied medicine at the University of Berlin , including physiology, anatomy and surgery with Robert Friedrich Froriep and Johannes Müller . He earned his doctorate at Carl Wilhelm Ulrich Wagner and Johann Christian Jüngken , both among other ophthalmologists ( ophthalmologist ). He initially wanted to write his dissertation in ophthalmology, but on the advice of his father switched to tongue enlargement ( macroglossia ). In the end, he brought up the case of a 21-year-old girl whose overly long tongue his father, Friedrich Hermann de Leuw, had cut off with the help of a self-designed device. His brother, the painter Friedrich August de Leuw , contributed a drawing of the sick before their operation and also of the equipment used . The inaugural disputation took place on June 28, 1845. His certificate of departure is dated July 17, 1845.

Dissertation by Louis de Leuw, Berlin 1845

Act

From April 1846, de Leuw worked in Graefrath as a doctor of internal medicine and surgeon, initially in his father's practice and looked after the sick in the poor house . In 1847 and 1848 he published his own cases from ophthalmology , which were included in the "Annual reports on the progress of all medicine in all countries" ( trichosis bulbi, trichosis carunculae lacrymalis, strabismus convergens, double pupil, fossilization of the lens and its capsule). From 1848 he was a member of the medical commission (responsible, inter alia, for combating epidemics), “assistant doctor of the ophthalmological institution” of the father and doctor of the “journeyman craftsmen” (a kind of insurance). Also in 1848 he received a bonus of five thalers for resuscitating a "corpse". In 1849 he was one of the few physicians who received the newspaper of the North German Pharmacists' Association.

The conspicuous silence of the de Leuws on the events of the civil revolution of 1848/49 is due to the close relationship between the father and the Hanoverian King Ernst-August (award of the Knight's Cross of the Guelph Order on August 15, 1849, permission to carry the Prussian King on September 26 1849). Gräfrath but was affected by the unrest only on 10 May 1849, when a mob led by Wilhelm Solingers Jellinghaus the armory stormed and with the guns to Elberfeld moved.

From 1853 de Leuw took over the task of licensed directing physician of the "private hospital for eye patients" and from 1854 as president of the newly established De Leuw Foundation. In 1854 he received the “ Merit Medal for Rescue from Danger ” for rescuing a drowning man from the bathing pond at Steinbeck, two kilometers northeast of Gräfrath, a few years earlier at the risk of his own life. In 1855 he published a summary and translation of a Dutch article about a new hemostatic agent (" Penghawar Jambic ", Chinese. Casket fern , Cibotium barometz J. Sm.), Where he also mentioned pulse diagnosis . After Gräfrath had received city rights in 1856 (according to the Rhenish City Ordinance of May 15, 1856), de Leuw was a city councilor, but previously probably already a local councilor (according to the Rhenish municipal ordinance of July 23, 1845). At the beginning of October 1857, English patients emphatically asked him to practice in England during the winter months, but he did not do so, since he is said to have had “a very large practice” with over 1,800 patients during the last eleven months.

In May 1853 he joined the Freemasons of the Johannes Lodge Prince of Prussia - To the Three Swords in Solingen, where he was accepted into the master's degree on May 21, 1857.

marriage

At the age of 32 he married Caroline Rachel Hunnemann, daughter of the royal bailiff and the Englishwoman Rachel Wharton, and a teacher. The wedding took place near Hanover. He did not give in to the wish of the king and father to move to Hanover as the extended arm of the father to treat the king, whereupon at the end of 1851 Dr. IL Weber was hired. Caroline rented rooms to English patients in the shared house. They didn't have children. But it is very likely that since 1844 he had an illegitimate daughter named Anna Maria Carolina with Countess Fanny Reiffen.

death

Grave De Leuw, Parkfriedhof Solingen-Gräfrath

de Leuw died on June 2, 1858, at two o'clock in the morning in Graefrath. The decorated and flower-wreathed bier was followed by the mother and hundreds of women and children, father and brothers, around 60 representatives of the Hochdahl miners' union and many villagers and guests. - His wife Caroline died in London on February 24, 1898, leaving a Mary Eleanor Hunnemann £ 170.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ V. Gerhardt: Humboldt University: Hit the nerve of the times with Virchow. In: Tagesspiegel. October 25, 2000
  2. ^ Birth certificate Louis de Leuw, Solingen City Archives (StAS)
  3. ^ Trunk, Werner, Ph.,: Johanna Maria Herder, Friedrich Hermann de Leuw and the Soliger Society . In: Stohlmann, Jüren, Wiemer, Karl Peter (eds.): Die Heimat - Mitteilungsblatt des Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Abt. Solingen e. V. Herft 10. Verlag des Solinger Tageblatts, 1994, ISBN 3-925626-14-X , p. 27-36 .
  4. ↑ Gräfrath municipal administration: property tax register. StAS, 1839, accessed December 23, 2018 .
  5. ^ Copy from the Elberfeld Gymnasium certificate book: Leaving certificate Louis de Leuw (1837/38), Solingen City Archives, Na2-169f; Textbook of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-GymnasiumG Cologne, years 1838–1841.
  6. ^ Official directory of the staff and students of the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin SH 1830; WH 1830/31 (1831) - WH 1917/18 (1917) ( digital copies ).
  7. ^ Louis de Leuw: De Macroglossa seu lingua prolapsu. Dissertation, June 28, 1845 ( digitized version ).
  8. ^ P. Bahl, W. Ribbe: The matriculation of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin 1810-1850 (= individual publications of the Historical Commission of Berlin 86 ). De Gruyter, Berlin ( to the chargeable digitization ).
  9. ↑ Royal Government of Düsseldorf, Official Gazette, 1846, Personal Chronik im Kreis Solingen, No. 483, p. 250, Dr. Ludwig de Leuw ( online )
  10. ↑ Louis de Leuw: Trichosis bulbi, in: Medical newspaper from the Association for Heilkunde in Prussia , No. 49/1847 , and Trichosis carunculae lacrymalis , in: Medicinische Zeitung des Verein für Heilkunde in Preußen , No. 51 (1847), quoted in: Annual report on the progress of the whole medicine in all countries in the year 1847 ( Google Books )
  11. ^ De Leuw, Louis: Strabismus convergens after suppression of a head rash . In: Canstatt, Eisenmann (Ed.): “Annual report on the progress of all medicine in all countries” (Vol. 1) / Annual report on the progress of surgery and obstetrics . Published by Ferdinand Enke, Erlangen 1849, p. 90, 94, 97–101 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  12. ↑ Uesseler, Carl (Mayor Gräfrath) ,: Copy of the decree . In: Stadtarchiv (Hrsg.): Files' Orders and Badges of Honor, award of title 1833 - 1900 . Solingen September 22, 1848.
  13. ^ Heinrich Wackenroder, Ludwig Bley (ed.): Archive and newspaper of the pharmacists' association in Northern Germany . tape 3 (in the Dierbach club year). Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung, 1850, p. 347 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  14. ↑ a b Carl Uesseler (Mayor von Gräfrath): Letter to the district administrator of Solingen . In: Stadtarchiv Solingen (ed.): File G-2241 (Medicinal Police) . Gräfrath June 3, 1858, p. 2 .
  15. ^ R. Tewes: The Prussian ophthalmologist Friedrich Hermann de Leuw and his practice in Gräfrath. Born publishing house, 1985
  16. ↑ Uesseler, Carl (Mayor Graefrath): Negotiated Graefrath on December 30, 1852 . In: Stadtarchiv (Hrsg.): Files' medals and decorations, awarding of titles (also gifts of grace and requests) 1833 - 1900 . G11. Solingen.
  17. ↑ de Leuw, Louis, Penghawar Jambic - a new hemostatic agent, in: Medizinische Zeitung, Verein für Heilkunde in Preußen (ed.), Berlin, April 25, 1855 ( online ).
  18. ^ S. Wurmbach, From now on: City - The Rhenish City Ordinance of May 15, 1856 , in: Romerike Berge 4, 2006, pp. 21-29.
  19. ^ Carl Uesseler (Mayor Gräfrath): Official announcements . In: Solinger district intelligence sheet . Solingen December 27, 1856.
  20. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm, King of Prussia: Municipal Code for the Rhine Province of July 23, 1845. Prussia, July 23, 1845, accessed on April 16, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Solinger Kreis-Intellektivenblatt, October 7th, 1857, message regarding relocation to England
  22. ^ M. Raine: 1859 - All the year round at Graefrath , Solingen City Archives.
  23. ^ W. Tückmantel: Communication to the Solingen city archive. 1965.
  24. ↑ Wife wanted - historian researches Caroline Hunnemann in Mecklenburg. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung , February 2, 2018.
  25. ^ M. Krause: Dr. Louis de Leuw - the future of Gräfrath - for his 200th birthday. In: Romerike Berge 3, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Leuw, Louis de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leuw, Ludwig de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Graefrath
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1858
Place of death Graefrath