Ludwig Freyberger

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. Ludwig Freyberger (born May 22, 1865 in Krems , † August 22, 1934 in Buxton (Derbyshire) ) was an Austro-British doctor and pathologist .

Life

Ludwig Freyberger was the son of the chief tax inspector Ludwig and his wife Amalia Freyberger. In Krems he attended the kk grammar school and received July 17, 1883 the certificate of maturity. From the winter semester of 1883/1884 he studied medicine at the University of Vienna . After receiving his doctorate on June 7, 1889, he worked as an assistant to Professor Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel in Vienna.

At the beginning of November 1892 Freyberger went to London, where, according to Karl Kautsky, he visited Friedrich Engels with a recommendation from Engelbert Pernerstorfer . After working in various London hospitals, he became a member of the Pathological Society of London in 1896 . As an appointed expert, he investigated, among other things, the cases of the serial poison killer George Chapman , the mine owner and falsifier James Whitaker Wright (1846-1904) and the American journalist and writer Harold Frederic .

He was in correspondence with August Bebel for an edition of his Die Frau und der Sozialismus . To do this, he analyzed Alfred Hegar's book : The Sexual Drive. A social-medical study . Stuttgart 1894 also in the New Era.

Freyberger married Louise Kautsky (1860–1950) in February 1894 , who had been married to Karl Kautsky until 1889. On November 6, 1894, their daughter Louise Frieda (1894–1977) was born. The family lived with Friedrich Engels in a house at 41 Regent's Park Road. Ludwig Freyberger became Friedrich Engels' last family doctor. He considered him in his will after Freyberger had always treated him free of charge.

Freyberger received British citizenship in 1897, which was revoked from him in 1919 due to the anti-German mood.

As a political writer, Freyberger published two essays. One of them, the review of the sex drive , was published in the social democratic journal Die Neue Zeit in 1894, the other in the journal German words in Vienna. As an author, Freyberger mainly appeared with his books The Pocket Formulary for the treatment of disease in children and the English version of HS Frankel's The treatment of tabetic ataxia by means of systematic exercise and numerous articles e.g. B. in the "Transactions of the Pathological Society of London".

Freyberger died penniless in 1934 while staying at a hotel in Buxton.

Fonts

  • The sex drive . In: The new time . Review of intellectual and public life. 13.1894-95, Volume 1 (1895), Issue 2, pp. 50-53 digitized
  • The Pocket Formulary for the Treatment of Disease in Children. Rebman, London 1898.
  • The treatment of tabetic ataxia by means of systematic exercise. Rebman, London 1902.
  • The Practitioner's Pocket Pharmacology and Formulary. Heinemann, London 1917.

literature

  • Priyanka Saran: Ludwig Freyberger and the crisis in the Coroners' Courts 1902–1913. (BSc. Dissertation) Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine 1996, 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Blumenberg (Ed.): August Bebel's correspondence with Friedrich Engels . Mouton, London 1965.
  2. ↑ Preface to the twenty-fifth edition . Stuttgart 1913, pp. XIX ff.
  3. ^ History of the AdsD
  4. ↑ Birth certificate and death certificate
  5. ↑ Addendum to Engels' Testament July 26, 1895 ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dearchiv.de
  6. ^ The British Medical Journal, March 29, 1919, p. 396.
  7. ↑ Letters from an Austrian abroad. In: German words ed. by Engelbert Pernesdorfer. Vienna 1893, February 1893, pp. 111-113 and May 1893, pp. 312-316
  8. ^ D. Zuck: Mr Troutbeck as the surgeon's friend: the coroner and the doctors – an Edwardian comedy. In: Medical history. Volume 39, Number 3, July 1995, pp. 259-287, PMID 7643670 , PMC 1037000 (free full text).
personal data
SURNAME Freyberger, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-British doctor and pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Krems
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1934
Place of death Buxton (Derbyshire)