Ludwig Adolf Neugebauer

Ludwig Adolf Neugebauer (born May 6, 1821 in Dojutrów / Blizanów near Kalisch , † August 9, 1890 in Berlin ) was a German-Polish and Russian gynecologist .

The Protestant family came from near Oels and immigrated to Kalisch at the beginning of the 18th century. Ludwig Adolf's father was Peter Heinrich Neugebauer, a soap boiler and mill owner in Dojutrów on the Prosna near Kalisch, who married Elisabeth Neugebauer (the youngest daughter of his cousin David Neugebauer). The future doctor Ludwig Adolf attended the renowned grammar school in Brieg in Silesia . In 1841 he began his medical studies in Dorpat , which he continued at the University of Breslau , where he received his doctorate in 1845 and was employed at the maternity clinic there until 1849. He had received a gold medal for his dissertation , Systema venosum avium cum eo mammalium et imprimis hominis collatum (Breslau and Bonn 1845). In 1849 he returned to Kalisch and worked there as a practicing private doctor until 1857 and from 1850 as head of the Trinity Hospital. In 1858 he was appointed to Warsaw as a lecturer in anatomy and later in obstetrics at the Medical Academy, then at the Warsaw Secondary School and finally at the Russian Imperial University. In 1862 he was also appointed chief physician at the renowned Heilig Geist Hospital.

The grave of the Neugebauers in Warsaw

Neugebauer became known as one of the creators of modern gynecology in the Russian Empire, as the inventor of new surgical methods and devices. He published over 175 scientific papers in the field of gynecology, first in German and Latin, from 1850 also in Polish, and in the last few years in Russian, all of which he provided with his own illustrations. Neugebauer was a member of over 30 domestic and foreign scientific societies. In 1845 he was admitted to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina with the nickname Meckel II . He left behind a huge bibliography of gynecology and obstetrics, which included all works from antiquity to 1874 (never published and probably lost), and a work on the history of his own family, History of the Neugebauer dynasty from Ostrowine in Silesia (Breslau 1844), which he wrote as a student in Breslau. He testamented his book collection to the Warsaw Medical Association . Shortly before death, he was made a university professor. He died suddenly during a congress in Berlin and was buried in the Evangelical-Augsburg cemetery there after the body was transferred to Warsaw .

Ludwig Adolf Neugebauer was married to Klara Schrötter and had two sons from her: the gynecologist Franciszek Ludwik Neugebauer and the chemist Edmund Ludwik .

literature

• Polski Słownik Biograficzny , Volume 22: Morsztyn Zbigniew - Niemirycz Teodor . Instytut Historii, Warsaw 1977.
• Eugeniusz Szulc: Cmentarz Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Warszawie. Zmarli i i Rodziny . Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw 1989, ISBN 83-06-01606-8 , ( Biblioteka Syrenki ).
• Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Neugebauer, Ludwig Adolph. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1033.

Web links

• Member entry of Ludwig Neugebauer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 6, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 272 digitized