Matthias Alexander Ecker

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Johann Matthias Alexander Ecker, since 1815 Knight von Ecker (born February 26, 1766 in Horšovský Týn [Bischofteinitz], Bohemia ; † August 5, 1829 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was professor of surgery and obstetrics .

Life

According to his biographer Karl Joseph Beck , Ecker was "the son of middle-class parents and free people". Orphaned at an early age, he grew up with a sister in his birthplace and in Stříbro (Mies). For financial reasons he started an apprenticeship as a surgeon after attending grammar school in Prague , which aroused in him a love for the literature of classical antiquity. In 1780 he was able to start studying medicine at the University of Prague .

KK field surgeon

He then became a field surgeon . At 22 he published under a pseudonym, a humorous description of the garrison town of Olomouc ( Olomouc ). He got to know the seriousness of life in the costly Turkish war of Emperor Joseph II . In 1790 he continued his studies at the Josephinum in Vienna , where he became an assistant to Johann Nepomuk Hunczovsky . In 1791 he was entrusted with the construction of a military hospital in Giessen . In 1792 he acquired the title of Doctor of Surgery at the Josephinum. Still serving in the army, he successfully solved the prize tasks set up by the Josephinum in 1794 and 1796. In 1795 he became an honorary member of the Helvetic Society of Corresponding Doctors and Surgeons ( Zurich ) and a member of the Society of Sciences and Arts in Erfurt , later other scientific societies (including Vienna, Bonn ). In 1796 he witnessed the crushing defeat which Bonaparte inflicted on the Imperial Army in Italy .

Professor in Freiburg im Breisgau

As the successor to the k. k. Matthäus von Mederer , whose daughter Anna he married, was promoted to the top field doctor. In 1797, Ecker was given the chair of surgery and obstetrics at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, which was the capital of Upper Austria until 1806 . In 1801/02 he campaigned for the introduction of the cowpox vaccination . In 1803 he accompanied his friend Karl von Rotteck to Vienna. 1806–1808, 1820/21 and 1824/25 he was prorector of the university. After the transition from Breisgau to Baden , he became a councilor in 1807 , an honorary citizen of Freiburg in 1810 , and a secret councilor in 1811. The poet Johann Georg Jacobi was one of his patients and friends .

In 1815 Ecker was secretary of an association of German women in Freyburg im Breisgau . a. the aim was to "shake off the foreign fashion yoke". In the same year, Emperor Alexander I made him a Knight of the Order of Vladimir for his services to the care of Russian wounded .

In 1816 their son Johann Alexander , later an anatomist and leading anthropologist of his time, was born to the Ecker couple .

In 1825 and 1828 Ecker represented the university in the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly . He was one of the initiators of the Clinical Hospital in Freiburg, which opened in Albertstrasse in 1829 and formed the basis of what is now the university's institute district . Ecker was a member of the Masonic lodges Zur noble Aussicht in Freiburg and Carl zur Eintracht in Mannheim and co-founder of the Freiburg Reading Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • Johann Alexius Eckberger (pseudonym): Characteristic contributions to the knowledge of the capital and the fortress of Olomouc. Vienna 1788. (Reprinted with translation into Czech: Olomouc 1998.)
  • Hippocrat’s spirit . Based on the Latin of the Burnet from the original Greek text (…) Vienna 1791.
  • Reviews in the library of the latest medical and surgical literature for the k. k. Feldchirurgen (Vienna), 1791 f., And the annals of Austrian literature (Vienna).
  • Price question, what causes can make a minor wound caused by sharp or blunt tools dangerous or fatal? Vienna 1794.
  • Regulatory for the better healing of diseases in general, especially nerve fever (...) Along with a criticism of this regulatory by a K. K. field doctor in Italy. Heilbronn 1796. (Published anonymously.)
  • Dr. G * * (pseudonym): Comments on Brownian medicine in general, and the Frankisch- Weikard defense of it in particular. Offenbach 1796.
  • Surgical Disease Doctrine Table to Guide Public Lectures. Freyburg im Breisgau 1798.
  • Philosophical nosography or application of the analytical method in pharmacy, by Philipp Pinel (...) Translated from French with the author's approval (...) 2 Theile, Tübingen 1799. Digitized
  • About the cowpox and its inoculation, a more than probable, easy and safe remedy against the children's puffiness. For parents in Freiburg and Breisgau. Freyburg im Breisgau 1801 (distributed free of charge at Ecker's expense.)
  • Contribution to the history of the cow or protective pox vaccination in Breisgau (...) Freyburg im Breisgau 1802. (Free of charge at Ecker's expense.)
  • Treatises in the general intelligence paper for the state of Breisgau (1802), in the Freiburger Wochenblatt (1811 ff.) And in the Eleutheria (1818–1820).
  • Basic lines for the history of the Albertine high school in Freyburg im Breisgau (...) Freyburg im Breisgau 1806.
  • Articles in Jacobi's pocket book Iris (Zurich), 1806–1811.
  • News of the establishment and the laws of the clinical hospital at the high school in Freyburg. Freyburg 1808.
  • A few words about the means of safekeeping against the contagious nerve fever (...) Freyburg 1814.
  • A few words were spoken at the Festes-Mahle on the 19th of the wine month 1814. Freyburg o. J.
  • Ludwig the Most Serene Grand Duke, the father of goodness for Albert Ludwig's college and this latest story in light outlines (...) Freiburg (1820).
  • Biographical sketch in memory of the full public professor Dr. Franz von Ittner (...) Freiburg im Breisgau 1825.
  • J. Ignatii Schmiderer (...) festa semisæcularia (...) Friburgi 1829.

literature

References and comments

  1. ↑ Ecker's biographer Beck left out this first name.
  2. ↑ The second prize publication, entitled Treatise on the Improvement of Field Pharmacy and the Study Facility of the K. K. Josephinische Akademie in Vienna, remained unprinted.
  3. ↑ Jacobi described in a poem how Ecker tirelessly rushed to rich and poor in the worst weather, and asked him the question:
    "Where
    does the joyful spirit come from, friend, Verliehn as genetic material, it seems (...)?"
    ( To my doctor , Professor Ecker. In: Iris, Zurich 1808, pp. 33–37, quotation: p. 34.)
  4. ^ Laws of the Association of German Women in Freyburg im Breisgau. Freyburg im Breisgau 1815, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Historical name for typhus.
  6. ↑ Name and description of the diseases.
  7. ^ First anniversary of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig .

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personal data
SURNAME Ecker, Matthias Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ecker, Johann Matthias Alexander (full name); Ecker, knight of; Eckberger, Johann Alexius (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and obstetrician
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Bischofteinitz , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1829
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau