Ludwig Brückner (medic, 1814)

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Brückner , called the elder , to distinguish himself from his son Ludwig (I.) Brückner (born February 22, 1814 in Neubrandenburg ; † December 3, 1902 there ) was a German physician, museum director and local historian.

Life

Ludwig Brückner (No. 45 in the gender census ) came from a Mecklenburg family of scholars. He was the youngest of six children of the lawyer and court councilor (Ernst) Friedrich (Christoph) Brückner (1766–1837) and the Neubrandenburg lawyer daughter Johanna, b. Funk (1775-1841). The lawyer and mayor of Neubrandenburg, Friedrich Brückner, was his brother.

Brückner attended high schools in Neubrandenburg and Stralsund. From 1835 he completed a medical degree in Berlin, Heidelberg and Halle, which he completed in 1839 with a doctorate in Halle. From 1840 he worked as a general practitioner in Neubrandenburg for 50 years. His most prominent patient and friend was Fritz Reuter during his time in Neubrandenburg (1856–1863). During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he was a member of the hospital commission for prisoners of war. In 1871 he was appointed to the council and in 1889 to the medical council. In 1890 he left the medical practice to his son of the same name and retired into private life.

Brückner dealt intensively with archeology and local research, which also included collecting natural and prehistoric finds and carrying out excavations, for example at large stone graves. In 1872 he was one of the founding fathers of the Neubrandenburg Museum Association with Wilhelm Ahlers , Viktor Siemerling and Franz Boll , which operated what is now the Neubrandenburg Regional Museum in Treptower Tor until the 1930s . Here he was able to present his findings. From 1879 to 1902 he was the association's chairman, from 1889 honorary president of the board of the museum association and head of the collection. He was also a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory, and corresponded with Heinrich Schliemann and Rudolf Virchow . In 1889 Virchow received an “Appreciation for L. Brückner sen. on the occasion of his 50th doctoral anniversary ".

Ludwig Brückner was married from May 5, 1843 to (Charlotte) Luise Krull (1823-1886), daughter of the Neubrandenburg cloth merchant and Kramer-Altermann Friedrich August Krull (1789-1857). Of the couple's four sons, (Ernst Friedrich) Ludwig ( the younger , 1844–1922) also became a well-known doctor in Neubrandenburg, who also continued Brückner's work as a successor on the board of the museum association. The historian Franz Boll was Ludwig Brückner's brother-in-law. His granddaughter Irmgard Unger-Brückner (1886–1978) founded a Low German stage in Neubrandenburg that still exists today. His grandson Erich Brückner (1881–1972), as an architect and monument conservator, played a key role in the creation of the four-volume inventory of art and historical monuments of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the first decades of the 20th century .

All of the Brückner family's graves have been in the old cemetery in Neubrandenburg since the early 19th century and have not been preserved.

Fonts (selection)

De venae sectione in gravidis instituenda. (Dissertation, 1839)
Old places to live near the Gute Fünfeichen located on the Feldmark of Neubrandenburg . (1883)
Rethra was on the fishing island in the Tollense . (1889) (digital copies and full text: main part , reply by Franz Schildt , comments on this by Hermann Grotefend )
To the question. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. 3 parts (1890–1892) (digital copies and full text: main part , addendum , correction )

literature

Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1929, p. 159
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1438 .

Web links

Literature about Brückner, Ludwig in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

↑ History of the Museum , Regional Museum Neubrandenburg (with picture)
^ Rudolf Virchow: Appreciation for L. Brückner sen. on the occasion of his 50th doctoral anniversary. In: Journal for Ethnology , Vol. 21 (1889), p. 589.

personal data
SURNAME	Brückner, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brückner, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (full name); Brückner, Ludwig (the elder)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physician, museum director and local historian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 22, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neubrandenburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 3, 1902
Place of death	Neubrandenburg

[1] History of the Museum , Regional Museum Neubrandenburg (with picture)

[2] Rudolf Virchow: Appreciation for L. Brückner sen. on the occasion of his 50th doctoral anniversary. In: Journal for Ethnology , Vol. 21 (1889), p. 589.