Michael Moritz Eulenburg

Michael Moritz Eulenburg (born August 15, 1811 in Birnbaum in Posen , † December 7, 1887 in Berlin ; also Moritz Michael Eulenburg ) was a German orthopedic surgeon .

Life

Michael Moritz Eulenburg was born in 1811 as the son of the Jewish merchant Sandel Hirsch Eulenburg. In 1814 the family from Birnbaum moved to Wriezen in Brandenburg . The motivation can be assumed that they wanted to come within the scope of the Prussian Jewish edict of 1812 , which had largely brought about equal treatment for Jews. In 1823, Sandel Eulenburg sent his son to the grammar school at the Gray Monastery in Berlin. From 1828 Michael Moritz Eulenburg studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , among others with Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland , Karl von Graefe and Johann Nepomuk Rust . He received his doctorate there on July 24, 1832 with the dissertation De operationibus bacillo ligatorio perficiendis to the doctor of medicine.

Eulenburg's grave in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf

Eulenburg first settled as a doctor in Wriezen and ran a general practice with a focus on ophthalmology . He married Myrthe Moser, who died in 1837 at the age of 19. In his second marriage, he was married to Auguste Saling (1816–1868), who was a cousin of the writer and later Nobel laureate in literature, Paul Heyse , from 1839 . In 1840 he returned to Berlin, where his son Albert was born, who later became an important physician himself. The second son Ernst followed in 1847 , later founder of the renowned Ernst Eulenburg music publisher . After the death of his father in 1847, Eulenburg and his family converted to the Protestant faith. He hoped this step would give him better chances of a government job, which he aspired to but never achieved.

In Berlin, Eulenburg turned to orthopedics. He traveled to Stockholm and learned Swedish therapeutic gymnastics according to Pehr Henrik Ling at the “Central Gymnastics Institute” there . On September 15, 1851 he founded his "Institute for Orthopedics and Remedial Gymnastics" at Lindenstrasse 14, the first therapeutic gymnastics facility in Berlin and at the same time the only one that was permanently successful. Two years later he moved the institute to Friedrichstrasse 103. In 1869 he was appointed a secret medical councilor. He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . In 1879 he withdrew from his work at the institute. He died in 1887. His grave is now in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

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Eulenburg was next to Hugo Rothstein (1810-1865) and Albert Constantin Neumann (1803-1870) a main representative of Swedish gymnastics in Germany. He was a critical and pragmatic doctor who viewed therapeutic gymnastics as a suitable means for prophylaxis and targeted treatment of a wide variety of diseases, but rejected any further expectations as speculative. Eulenburg tried to empirically justify the medical effect of Swedish therapeutic gymnastics, and had considerable therapeutic success as a practitioner. His views were based not only on personal experience, but also on scientific knowledge, especially physiology .

Eulenburg published a number of scientific papers. He described the congenital high position of the shoulder blade, now known as Sprengel's deformity , almost thirty years before Otto Sprengel (1852–1915). In his main work The Lateral Spinal Curvature , he dealt with scoliosis , the cause of which he saw in an imbalance in the performance of the back muscles. In her treatment, he favored exercise therapy over mechanical aids.

Fonts (selection)

• Situs of all viscera of the cranial, thoracic and abdominal cavities , Berlin 1833 (with Heimann Wolff Berend )
• Ling's or Swedish therapeutic gymnastics in their value from the rational medical standpoint . In: Deutsche Klinik 30, 1852, and 31, 1852
• Swedish therapeutic gymnastics. Attempt to scientifically justify the same , Berlin 1853
• About muscle paralysis as the cause of joint curvature . In: Virchows Arch . 9, 1856, p. 47 ff.
• The healing of chronic abdominal complaints through Swedish therapeutic gymnastics, based on science and experience , Berlin 1856
• Severe displacement of the scapula . In: Arch. Klin. Chir. 4, 1863, pp. 304-311
• Remedial gymnastics . In: Albert Eulenburg (Ed.): Real-Encyklopädie der Gesamt Heilkunde , Volume 6, Vienna and Leipzig 1881, p. 375 ff.

literature

• Brigitte Heidenhain: Jews in Wriezen. Her life in the city from 1677 to 1940 and her cemetery . Universitäts-Verlag Potsdam, Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-939469-39-1 ( Pri ha-Pardes 1).
• Benjamin A. Marcus: Heimann Wolff Berend (1809–1873) and Moritz Michael Eulenburg (1811–1887). Berlin orthopedic surgeons in the 19th century. In: L. Zichner (Ed.): History of conservative procedures on the locomotor organs ( = German Orthopädisches Geschichts- und Forschungsmuseum Jahrbuch 3), Steinkopff, Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-7985-1267-1 , pp. 227-232 ( restricted preview in Google Book Search).
• Julia Helene Schöler: About the beginnings of Swedish therapeutic gymnastics in Germany - a contribution to the history of physiotherapy in the 19th century (PDF; 1.03 MB). Dissertation, Medical Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster, 2005.
• Manfred Stürzbecher : Michael Moritz Eulenburg. A 19th century Berlin doctor. In: Medical Clinic 59, 1964, ISSN  0723-5003 , pp. 1025-1028.
• Bruno Valentin:  Eulenburg, Michael Moritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , pp. 684 f. ( Digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ↑ Wriezen and Letschin are also mentioned as places of birth . Heidenhain (2007) gives Birnbaum. P. 95: "Later he is said to have mostly referred to Wriezen as his place of birth, but this cannot be true according to all the information available".
2. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857