Ludolf Krehl (doctor)

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Ludolf von Krehl

Albrecht Ludolf Krehl , after the ennoblement in 1904 Ludolf von Krehl (born December 26, 1861 in Leipzig , † May 26, 1937 in Heidelberg ), was a German internist , cardiologist and pathologist . Ludolf von Krehl was a professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , the Philipps University Marburg , the Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald , the University of Strasbourg , and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg .

Life

Ludolf von Krehl's grave in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery

Ludolf Krehl was the son of the Leipzig professor of oriental studies Ludolf Krehl . He studied medicine in Leipzig, Jena , Heidelberg and Berlin from 1881 to 1886 and received his doctorate from Carl Ludwig in Leipzig in 1886 . While studying medicine in Heidelberg, Krehl became a member of the Frankonia fraternity . 1886-1892 he was assistant to Ernst Leberecht Wagner and Heinrich Curschmann at the Leipzig Medical Clinic. There he completed his habilitation in internal medicine in 1888. Appointments to the medical outpatient clinics in Jena in 1892, Marburg in 1899 and Greifswald in 1900. In 1902 he took over the medical clinics in Tübingen , in 1904 in Strasbourg as successor to Bernhard Naunyn and in 1907 finally took over the medical clinic in Heidelberg as successor to Wilhelm Erb . In Heidelberg he worked together with the surgeon Eugen Enderlen . Together with Enderlen, Krehl performed denervation operations on the heart and blockages of nerve nodes on the neck.

In 1909 Krehl was able to move into the Villa Krehl built for him in the Handschuhsheim district. In the stately building he lived an upper-class lifestyle with his wife Elisabeth, who came from Russia. The Grand Duke of Baden was one of his regular guests.

Krehl's work in Heidelberg was interrupted by the First World War. He was a consultant internist and head of an epidemic hospital in occupied French Montmédy . The field post letters to his wife date from this time. In these letters Krehl dealt, among other things, with the war perspective of the Heidelberg theologian and Berlin philosopher Ernst Troeltsch . At that time, Krehl, as an advisory general doctor, also read Ernst Schweninger's 1906 draft “The Doctor” .

The economic problems of the wartime led to the loss of Krehl's villa in Handschuhsheim. He and his wife moved into the previous garden house, while the villa became the Friedrichsstift student dormitory of the Protestant regional church. Krehl was able to move into a new clinic in Heidelberg in 1922, was involved in the founding of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research and, after his retirement in 1930, took over the management of the Department of Pathology at this institute until 1937 .

In 1904 Krehl was ennobled, in 1925 a member of the Pour le Mérite order for science and the arts and in 1927 an honorary doctorate from the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Tübingen. In 1926 Krehl was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1909 he became an extraordinary and in 1916 a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . During the time of National Socialism he became a member of the Nazi teachers' association . In 1936, Adolf Hitler awarded him the Eagle Shield of the German Reich . Krehl was from 1916 to 1921 and from 1928 to 1937 a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science .

Act

Main entrance of the former Ludolf Krehl Clinic in Heidelberg
New Krehl Clinic in Neuenheimer Feld

Krehl's thinking is characterized by multiple attempts to combine medical clinic and being a doctor. The focus of his work is the pathological physiology , which appeared from 1893 with slightly varied titles until 1932–1934 in 14 editions. It extends the structural pathology of the organs ( Giovanni Battista Morgagni ) and cells ( Rudolf Virchow ) to include the pathogenesis and symptom formation of the disturbed functions. Krehl's main field of work, the diseases of the heart, showed him that there are performance disorders for which no pathological-anatomical substrate exists ( The diseases of the heart muscle and the nervous heart diseases , in: Special Pathology and Therapy. Ed. Hermann von Nothnagel. Vol. XV / 1, 1901). He observed similar things in digestive disorders (dyspepsia) and in the prime example of hysteria. The fact that not all people get sick from infections, and if so in different ways, prompted Krehl to grant general diseases their right in addition to organ diseases: namely, the conditions that favor becoming sick and shape the course of the disease (constitution, diatheses; form of disease and personality , 1929). On the one hand, Krehl did not want and could not give up the scientific basis of medical research and diagnostics as a prerequisite for a rationally justifiable therapy, the experimental-inductive method. On the other hand, medical experience urged him to take an open look at the psychological conditions for getting sick and being sick. As early as 1902 he paid tribute to the work of Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer . In symptoms he recognized expressive communities of the physical and mental and the effects of the unconscious. Teleological thinking came alongside causal thinking . With this the individual, the person of the sick, came to the fore. In therapy, the strengthening of the will to recover becomes effective in the patient-doctor relationship. Behind the patient's constitution, person and conversation with his doctor is the idea of ​​a whole. From the value relationships effective therein, Krehl followed a view of the patient and a behavior towards him for medical practice that unites scientific and humanistic perspectives ( Der Arzt , 1937). The conversation transforms two people into an existential unit. In this way, Krehl was primarily followed by his colleagues Viktor von Weizsäcker (1886–1957) and Richard Siebeck (1883–1965), who met on hikes together through the Vosges Mountains.

One of the nurses who worked under Ludolf von Krehl was Ernestine Thren , a recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal . From 1941 to 1952, Olga von Lersner was the nursing superior at the Ludolf von Krehl Clinic.

Fonts (selection)

  • Outline of general clinical pathology , Leipzig 1893
  • Ludolf Krehl (Ed.): Handbook of medical experience in the World War 1914–1918. 3 volumes: Internal Medicine, Leipzig 1921
  • Pathological physiology. A textbook for students and doctors. 2nd edition Leipzig 1898; 11th edition ibid Leipzig 1921
  • About standpoints of internal medicine , In: Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift. 73 (1926) pp. 1547-1552
  • About Naturopathy , 1935

Honors

  • Krehl is the namesake of one of the medical university clinics in Heidelberg .
  • The Southwest German Society for Internal Medicine awards the Ludolph Krehl Prize for excellent dissertations and research work.
  • On April 11, 2017, a bronze portrait of Krehl, rediscovered after more than 80 years in the warehouse of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, was placed in front of the large lecture hall of the Medical University Clinic, the Krehl Clinic.
  • In Heidelberg and Mannheim streets are named after Ludolf von Krehl.

literature

  • Paul Christian : Ludolf Krehl and medical personalism . In: Heidelberger Jahrbücher 6 (1962) pp. 207–210
  • Friedrich Curtius: The principle of individuality in Ludolf Krehl's thinking . In: Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift 103 (1961) pp. 2494–2497
  • Rolf Uebe: Ludolf Krehl's medical concept and his attempt to criticize therapeutics . Med. Diss., Heidelberg (1972)
  • Viktor von Weizsäcker: Ludolf von Krehl - commemorative speech . In: Ders .: Collected Writings, Vol. 1, Frankfurt am Main (1986), pp. 415-423
  • Helmut Wyklicky:  Krehl, Ludolf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 733 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Krehl, Ludolf , in: Badische Biographien . NF 5, pp. 159-162
  • Heinrich Schipperges : Krehl - the man and his work , in: Doctors in Heidelberg. A chronicle from "Homo Heidelbergensis" to "Medicine on the move". Edition Braus Heidelberg 1995, with insert Wolfgang U. Eckart 2006, pp. 201 + 202
  • Wolfgang U. Eckart : " And above all, the doctor's personality rules", Ludolf von Krehl's search for unity in illness and healing , in: Peter Kröner (Ed.): Ars medica - Lost Unit of Medicine , Gustav Fischer Stuttgart 1995, Pp. 85-95.
  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . (Ed.): Rectorate of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität-Heidelberg, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg Tokyo 2012, 324 pp., ISBN 978-3-642-70761-2
  • Nicole Mayer: Krehl, Ludolf von. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 805 f.

Web links

Commons : Ludolf von Krehl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Wolfgang U. Eckart : The Heidelberg School of Anthropological Medicine , in: Peter Meusburger and Thomas Schuch, on behalf of the Rector Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eitel : Scientific Atlas of the University of Heidelberg , Bibliotheca Palatina Knittlingen 2011, pp. 116 + 117.
  2. ^ Website of Heidelberg University Hospital: Chirurgische Ordinarien, Eugen Enderlen , accessed on April 23, 2017; as well as picture boards in the lecture hall area of ​​the Surgical University Clinic Heidelberg.
  3. ↑ Ernst Gund: Villa Krehl, a second Handschuhsheimer Schlößchen, in: District Association Handschuhsheim e. V. Yearbook 1995, Heidelberg 1995, pp. 69-71.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : The war, the 'medical' and the pathological physiology - Ludolf von Krehl in his letters to his wife, 1914-1918, in: Ingo Runde (ed.): The University of Heidelberg and their professors during the first World War I, contributions to the conference in the Heidelberg University Archives on November 6th and 7th, 2014 , Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg 2017, pp. 259–278.
  5. ↑ Ernst Gund: Villa Krehl, a second Handschuhsheimer Schlößchen, in: District Association Handschuhsheim e. V. Yearbook 1995, Heidelberg 1995, pp. 69-71.
  6. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Ludolf von Krehl. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 29, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2nd updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 338.
  8. ^ Ralf Bröer and Wolfgang U. Eckart : Shipwreck and rescue of modern medicine. On the history of the Heidelberg anthropological school of medicine . In: Ruperto Carola. Research magazine of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, issue 2/1993, pp. 4–9.
  9. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : Illustrated history of medicine. From the French Revolution to the present , 1. + 2. Edition 2011, Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, on Ludolf von Krehl and the Heidelberg anthropological school p. 192, Illustrated history of medicine online resource
  10. ↑ Karin Buselmeier, Jens Dannehl, Susanne Himmelheber, Wolfgang U. Eckart et al .: University Museum Heidelberg - Catalogs Vol. 2, booklet accompanying the exhibition , Heidelberg E-Books, heiBOOKS 2006 , The Heidelberg School of Anthropological Medicine with Ludolf von Krehl, Richard Siebeck and Viktor von Weizsäcker p. 62, published on February 19, 2016.
  11. ^ Ludolf Krehl Prize ( Memento from December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at the Southwest German Society for Internal Medicine (swgim.de); accessed on December 31, 2013
  12. ↑ Website Heidelberg University Hospital: Bronze treasure at the new place: A rediscovered bronze portrait now adorns the wall in front of the large lecture hall of the Krehl Clinic. During the ceremony on April 11, 2017, Ilme Schlichting , Director of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Hugo A. Katus , Medical Director of the University Clinic for Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology and Wolfgang U. Eckart , Director of the Institute for History and The ethics of medicine that the “Krehl Clinic”, despite modern high-tech medicine, still feels committed to Krehl's concerns; Article accessed on April 15, 2017.
  13. ^ Rhein-Neckar-Wiki: Ludolf von Krehl Strasse, Heidelberg , accessed on June 8, 2017.
  14. ↑ Google Maps. Retrieved October 24, 2019 (de-US).
personal data
SURNAME Krehl, Ludolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krehl, Albrecht Ludolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1937
Place of death Heidelberg