Martin Wilhelm von Mandt

Martin Wilhelm von Mandt (born August 6, 1799 in Beyenburg , today Wuppertal , † November 20, 1858 in Frankfurt / Oder ) was a German physician, university professor and personal physician to the Russian Tsar Nicholas I.

Life

His father, a surgeon, gave him basic medical knowledge. At the age of 15 he became a hospital surgeon and served for two years in Prussian military hospitals. In 1819 he was transferred to Berlin, where he could also study. In 1821 he went on a sea voyage as a doctor on a whaling ship "Blücher" to Greenland and Svalbard. After his return in 1822 he became an assistant at the anatomical museum in Berlin and received his doctorate. From 1825 he was a district doctor in Küstrin for five years before going to Greifswald as a professor of surgery in 1830. He was a member of the Küstriner Freemason Lodge Friedrich Wilhelm zum Golden Scepter . There he set up a surgical clinic and a school for surgeons, of which he became director. A scientific journey took him through Italy, France and England. In 1836 he went to Petersburg with the Russian Grand Duchess Helena Pawlowna, née Charlotte von Württemberg, and in 1840 became the personal physician of Tsar Nicholas I. Together with Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogow, he taught at the military model hospital in Petersburg . In 1855 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Martin Wilhelm von Mandt died at the age of 58 in Frankfurt an der Oder.

literature

• Martin Mandt: A German doctor at the court of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. Life memories . Duncker & Humblot, Munich and Leipzig 1923
• Wilhelm Ress, Martin Mandt , in: Marie-Luise Baum (ed.), Wuppertaler Biographien, 6th episode, Wuppertal 1966, pp. 113–122
• Ernst Gurlt :  Mandt, Martin Wilhelm v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 180-182.

Web link

Personal database of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, sv Martin Wilhelm Mandt