Ludwig Güterbock

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Ludwig Güterbock , also Gueterbock (born October 23, 1814 in Berlin ; † February 28, 1895 there ), was a German physician and general practitioner .

Life

Ludwig Güterbock came from a Jewish family from which numerous scholars and artists emerged. His younger brother was the genre and oriental painter Leopold Güterbock (1817–1881). Güterbock attended the Joachimsthal Gymnasium and studied medicine at the Berlin University . In 1837 he received his doctorate there with the dissertation De pure et granulatione as a doctor of medicine . His dissertation, a thesis on the microscopic and chemical composition of pus , was awarded a prize by the medical faculty of the University of Berlin that same year.

From 1840 he settled in Berlin as a general practitioner, surgeon and obstetrician, a profession that he practiced until the end of his life. He published numerous medical articles, especially on the disease of the urinary organs but also on cholera . Güterbock was also a co-author of various magazines and a reporter for the annual report on the progress of the entire medicine in all countries by Carl Friedrich Canstatt and Rudolf Virchow . In 1842 he was the editor of Schoenlein's clinical lectures in the Charité hospital in Berlin, which he also edited himself in consultation with Johann Lukas Schönlein . The work appeared in its third edition in 1843. Together with Gustav Wilhelm Scharlau and Ernst Siegfried Lehrs, he published Doctor Schönlein as a doctor and clinical teacher in 1842 . For his services he was awarded the title of Medical Councilor in February 1858 and that of a Secret Medical Councilor in November 1867 . For his services in the nursing of the sick and wounded during the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871, he was awarded the 4th Class Crown Order with the red cross on a white field on the commemorative ribbon on March 18, 1872 and the 4th Red Eagle Order on May 31, 1883 . Great because of his 40 years as a railway doctor at the Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn and specialist adviser for the introduction of morbidity, disability and mortality statistics in the Association of German Railway Administrations and in the Reich Health Office .

Ludwig Güterbock died on February 28, 1895, at the age of 80, in Berlin. He and his wife are buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg on Schönhauser Allee , their graves and gravestones have been preserved. From his marriage to Bertha (1821-1894), a born Lesser, emerged as the eldest son Paul. Paul Güterbock (1844–1897) became a doctor like his father and was professor of surgery at Berlin University.

Publications (selection)

  • De pure et granulatione. ( Dissertation ), Berlin 1837. ( digitized )
  • Schoenlein's clinical lectures in the Charité hospital in Berlin. as editor, Berlin 1842. ( digitized )
  • Gustav Wilhelm Scharlau , Ernst Siegfried Lehrs: Doctor Schönlein as a doctor and clinical teacher from the description of Dr. Güterbock was subject to irrefutable criticism. Enslin, Berlin 1842. ( digitized )

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Letter no. 1442/34 of the Secret Prussian State Archives from March 6, 1934
  2. ↑ Letter No. II. 5860/38 of the Secret Prussian State Archives of July 13, 1938
  3. ^ Letter No. II. 6627/38 of the Secret Prussian State Archives of August 8, 1938
  4. ↑ Secret Prussian State Archives Rep. 89 H IV 12 Bd. 23, Immediatbericht der Minster der Public Works und der Geistlichen Menschen pp. Berlin May 25, 1883
personal data
SURNAME Güterbock, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gueterbock, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1895
Place of death Berlin