Ludwig Hopf (physician)

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Ludwig Hopf, who wrote medical and anthropological fairy tales under the pseudonym Philander

Ludwig Hopf or completely Immanuel Ferdinand Ludwig Hopf (born November 24, 1838 in Eßlingen am Neckar , † February 27, 1924 in Stuttgart ) was a German physician and published medical and anthropological fairy tales under the pseudonym Philander .

Live and act

Ludwig Hopf was admitted to the Tübingen Abbey on October 6, 1857, without taking the entrance exam , as he and six other seminar candidates had fallen ill with typhus shortly before the entrance exam. On June 28, 1858 he entered the monastery and enrolled on November 17 to study theology at the University of Tübingen.

In the second year of his studies his behavior gave cause for complaint: he repeatedly did not keep his room clean, came late to church or repetition and missed the closing time. On November 25, 1859, he received a 24-hour jail for being drunk. On January 27, 1859 he joined the royal society Roigel and was punished shortly afterwards on June 18 and November 21, 1859 in the pen for wearing a red cap.

Because of a noisy elevator through the city, presumably in connection with the recruits' day and the resulting Tübingen street excess of March 5, 1860, he was given house arrest for two days on March 6, 1860. Shortly before, he had already submitted an application to be released from the pen. His free discharge was approved on March 17, 1860, and a few days later, with his father's consent, he left the monastery to study medicine and natural sciences from the summer semester until the end of January 1861.

From April 22, 1861, he attended lectures on physiology, chemistry and descriptive anatomy in Vienna as an extraordinary student . In his free time he worked in Dr. Jäger's See-Aquarium in the Prater as a scientific explanation. At the end of June 1862 he moved back to Tübingen and took over the presidium of the royal society in the winter semester 1863/64. He was noticed by the Tübingen police twice for breaking the police hour and once for letting a dog go without a muzzle. Nevertheless, on July 27, 1865 he was promoted to Dr. med. et chir. and passed the state examination in Stuttgart in May 1866.

From 1866 he worked as assistant to the director Dr. Dieterich worked at the Johanniter Hospital in Plochingen, which was inaugurated two years earlier, and married Natalie Glanz on October 17, 1867 (born June 12, 1849 in Markgröningen ). He later took over the management of the hospital, which in the German War of 1866 also served as a military hospital for the injured from the battle near Tauberbischofsheim . During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, a total of 80 Prussian, Württemberg, Baden, Bavarian and French wounded from the battle of Wörth were housed there, some in newly built barracks. After the appointment of the railway doctor Dr. Wilhelm Bosch, against whom Hopf had lodged an objection, submitted his resignation on April 1, 1897.

Publications

Hopf published medical and anthropological fairy tales under the pseudonym Philander : Two years before Robert Koch recognized bacteria as pathogens when he identified the anthrax pathogen in 1876, he published BaKill. A hygienic fairy tale from the Middle Kingdom , in which Ba-Kill is able to catch pathogens in so-called bacilli traps. Elektra. A physical-diagnostic fairy tale from the twentieth century describes a young country doctor three years before the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen , who can cure the local priest of Trichinen , although he is against the tissue removal necessary for diagnosis. Elektra, the spirit of the twentieth century, gives the country doctor a can with whose light it is possible to make people as transparent as a jellyfish.

In the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Stuttgart, of which he was a member from 1880/81 to 1911, and the German Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory, which he joined in 1878, he gave lectures on mostly prehistoric topics, e.g. B. 1901 about dwarfs and pygmies and 1903 about the development of prehistoric ornamentation .

Works

  • For the therapy of the head obstipum. Dissertation Tübingen, 1865.
  • Schreiber's little illustrated natural history of the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms for school and home. According to the latest research and with size specifications according to the meter system, reworked by Dr. L. Hopf. Esslingen, 1873.
  • First aid in case of illness and accidents. Stuttgart 1881. (The farmer's winter evenings, Volume 24).
  • Animal protection: A brief instruction about the duties of humans towards animals. Stuttgart, 1882. (The farmer's winter evenings, vol. 26).
  • The medical family friend. An advice and help book for the healthy and the sick with special consideration of the needs of the rural population. Stuttgart, 1887.
  • Oracle and oracle animals in ancient and modern times. An ethnological-zoological study. Stuttgart, 1888.
  • The birds and agriculture: A brief instruction about the farmer's friends among birds, along with a list of the legal provisions on bird protection. Stuttgart, 1902. (The farmer's winter evenings, Volume 19).
  • Medical fairy tale. Stuttgart, undated [1892, under the pseudonym Philander].
  • Immunity and Immunization: A Medical-Historical Study. Tubingen, 1902.
  • New medical and anthropological fairy tales. Tubingen, 1903.
  • The healing gods and healing places of antiquity. An archaeological-medical study. Tubingen, 1904.
  • The beginnings of anatomy among the ancient civilized peoples. A contribution to the history of anatomy. Breslau, 1904. (Treatises on the history of medicine, Vol. 9).
  • About the dual personality of the metazoa including humans. A morphological interpretation. Tubingen, 1904.
  • The bald ibis (Comatibis eremiti Hartert), a lost European bird. In: Annual Books of the Association for Patriotic Natural History 63 (1907), pp. 273–279.
  • About the specifically human in anatomical, physiological and pathological relationships. Stuttgart, 1907.
  • The Human Species Considered from the Standpoint of Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology and Bacteriology. London 1909.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hopf, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hopf, Immanuel Ferdinand Ludwig (full name); Philander (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and author of medical and anthropological fairy tales
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1924
Place of death Stuttgart