Martin Müller (doctor, 1878)

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Martin Christian Anton Müller (born February 26, 1878 in Hohenwettersbach , Baden (today in Karlsruhe ), † January 12, 1960 in Munich ) was a German physician , medical historian and university professor .

Life

Family and education

The Catholic baptized Martin Müller, son of the accountant Johann Müller and his wife Karoline nee Schelle, high school graduate at the Benedictine high school St. Stephan in Augsburg , then devoted himself to studying theology and philosophy at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome from 1897 . In 1899 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he began studying Classical Philology , German Philology and History , and in 1906 he passed the qualification test for teaching at secondary schools. In 1910 he began studying medicine at the University of Munich , and in 1919 he was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate and received approval as a doctor , in 1923 he obtained the degree of Dr. phil. .

In 1922 Martin Müller married Emma Margarete Kerschbaumer, the daughter of the general manager of a mosaic tile factory in Sinzig on the Middle Rhine . He died in Munich in January 1960 at the age of 81.

Professional background

After studying to be a teacher, Martin Müller held positions as an educator with the family of Prince Waldburg-Zeil , then as prefect at the Catholic educational institute in Burghausen , and finally as a teacher at the Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium in Pirmasens , before he was appointed assistant to Johannes Rankes in 1910 the Anthropological Institute of the University of Munich followed. After Müller initially worked as a volunteer nurse during the First World War and later as a field doctor and field medical assistant, he opened a country doctor's practice in Johanniskirchen near Wasserburg am Inn after studying medicine .

Martin Müller moved his practice to Munich in 1925. There, in addition to his medical profession, he devoted himself to research on medical history, encouraged by Karl Sudhoff . In 1927 Müller received a research grant from the Emergency Association of German Science , in 1929 he completed his habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the University of Munich in the subject of the history of medicine, and in 1939 he was promoted to associate professor . He initially worked in the seminar for the history of medicine, which was converted into a university institute thanks to the support of the professor of internal medicine, Friedrich von Müller , and the editorial board of the Munich Medical Weekly , retired from university service at the end of 1949.

Mueller, who was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1945, is one of the founders of more recent German medical history research. His special scientific interest was in the relationship between philosophy and empirical natural science, as evidenced by his work on the physiologist Johannes Müller .

Publications

  • About the philosophical views of the natural scientist Johannes Peter Müller | Johannes Müller: II: The theory of specific sensory energies / , in: Archive for the history of medicine , Vol. 18, Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig, 1926, pp. 130–50, 109 -34, 328-50.
  • The position of Daniel von Morley in the science of the Middle Ages, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft, Vol. 41, Dyroff & Hartmann, Fulda, 1928, pp. 301–337.
  • Goethe's position on theoretical and practical medicine, in: Advances in Medicine, Vol. 50, Urban & Vogel, Munich, 1932, pp. 218–22, 257–60.
  • Kosmas and Damian. In: Memorandum for the centenary of the Munich Medical Association: Munich and medicine. In: Bayerland. (Munich) 1933.
  • The Quaestiones naturales of Adelardus von Bath , in: Contributions to the history of philosophy and theology of the Middle Ages, Vol. 31, Volume 2., Aschendorff, Münster iW, 1934.
  • The way of the healing arts: On the development of medicine in old and new times, Volksverband der Bücherfreunde, Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin, 1937
  • On the synthesis of medicine, in: Ärztliche Mitteilungen, Vol. 38, Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne, Berlin, 1953, pp. 136-138.
  • Register volume for Sudhoff's Paracelsus Complete Edition. Edited by Robert Blaser. Josef and Karl Eberle, Einsiedeln 1960.

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Martin Christian Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicians, medical historians and university lecturers
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenwettersbach , Baden (now part of Karlsruhe )
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1960
Place of death Munich