Michael Jäger (medic, 1795)

Michael Hunter

Michael Jäger (also Jaeger ; born August 10, 1795 in Würzburg , † February 3, 1838 in Erlangen ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

Hunter attended high school in Würzburg and studied at the University of Wuerzburg then medicine . On February 20, 1818 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . A study trip to Vienna , Berlin and Hamburg followed . After 1819 he became a doctor for the poor in Würzburg. On June 8, 1821, he passed the medical state examination and was able to settle down as a general practitioner in Würzburg. However, he remained connected to science. On February 18, 1822 , he completed his habilitation at the Würzburg University and then taught pathological anatomy as a private lecturer . He organized anatomical demonstrations in the Juliusspital .

Jäger had actually applied for a clinical apprenticeship in Landshut, but after Bernhard Nathanael Gottlob Schreger had died, he was appointed director of the surgical and ophthalmological clinic and an extraordinary professorship at the University of Erlangen on October 1, 1826 . He reformed the clinic and made it possible, through government grants, to treat more people in need. On June 24, 1831, he received a full professorship in surgery at Erlangen University .

By royal order and against his will, Jäger had to return to the same position in Würzburg on October 30, 1832. Here, too, he immediately began reforming the clinic, and the university approved the establishment of a collection of instruments. This received high grants. However, with his reforms he drew the resentment of his colleagues. In addition, a disease of the larynx became noticeable. Therefore, he was transferred back to his previous positions by royal order on November 4, 1834 in Erlangen. His assistant Franz Jordan von Ried had to take over Jäger's lectures and exercises due to Jäger's progressive illness.

Works (selection)

• Tractatus anatomico-physiologicus de arteriarum pulsu. Würzburg 1820. (digitized version) .
• De extirpatione linguae: Commentatio chirurgica. Erlangen 1832 (digitized version) .
• On the resection of the bones in and outside the joints. Berlin 1832 (digitized version) .
• Operatio resectionis conspectu chronologico adumbrata . Erlangen 1832 (digitized version) .
• About the intestinal stones of man and animals. Veit, Berlin 1834. (digitized version) .
• Description of Hunter's Anatomical and Pathological Museum of the College of Surgeons in London . Palm and Enke, Erlangen 1835 (digitized version) .
• About joint inflammation and its types . Reimer, Grimma 1836 (digitized version) .
• with Justus Radius and Johann Carl Wilhelm Walther : Concise dictionary of all surgery and ophthalmology. 6 volumes, Gebhardt and Reisland, Leipzig 1836–1840 (Jäger collaborated on volume V-VI unsecured).
  • Volume I 1836 Ligation - Atresia vulvae (digitized version ) .
  • Volume II 1837 Atrophia – Fascia scapularis (digital copy ) .
  • Volume III 1838 Fascia T-formis - Hypopyon (digital copy ) .
  • Volume IV 1839 Incontinentia – Opium (digitized version ) .
  • Volume V 1839 Orthopedia-Staphyloma (digitized version) .
  • Volume VI 1840 Staphylorraphia-Zincum (digitized version ) .
• with Franz Jordan von Ried : Resection of the bones. Nuremberg 1847 (digitized) .

literature

• Ernst Gurlt :  Jaeger, Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 654-657.
• Adolf Callisen : Medicinal writer's lexicon of the now living physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated peoples. Volume 29, Copenhagen and Altona 1841, pp. 127-129.

Web links

• Works by and about Michael Jäger  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice of Dr. Michael Jäger , in: Allgemeine Zeitung Munich, p. 289; Deaths in Bavaria , in: Allgemeine Zeitung Munich, p. 306.