Moritz Schmidt-Metzler

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Moritz Schmidt-Metzler (born March 15, 1838 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 9, 1907 there ) was a physician and as chairman of the administration of the Dr. Senckenberg Foundation Pioneer of the Frankfurt Johann Wolfgang Goethe University .

Life

He came from a Frankfurt merchant family. However, his father Adolf Schmidt-Heyder (1806–1889) was a doctor and co-founder of the Frankfurter Armenklinik. His younger sister Pauline was the model for the "Paulinchen" in Struwwelpeter of the family doctor Heinrich Hoffmann .

Schmidt-Metzler completed a medical degree in Göttingen, received his doctorate there in 1860 and specialized in laryngology . From 1862 he practiced in Frankfurt am Main. As a specialist in laryngeal diseases, he was known beyond Frankfurt. In 1888 he treated the German Crown Prince and later Emperor Friedrich III, who had throat cancer, and in 1903 Emperor Wilhelm II .

In 1863 he married Mathilde Metzler (1840-1932), a sister of the banker and city councilor Albert von Metzler (1839-1918), and changed his name to Schmidt-Metzler. He lived with his wife from 1889 until his death in the Villa Metzler , which is now part of the Museum of Applied Arts .

Services

Schmidt-Metzler was a member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society from 1870 until his death in 1907 . From 1868 he was a member of the administration of Dr. Senckenberg Foundation, from 1883 to 1907 he was its chairman. In this position, together with the Mayor of Frankfurt, Franz Adickes, he pushed for the spatial concentration of those scientific institutions that became the nucleus of the natural science faculty of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and thus did important preparatory work for the foundation of the university in 1914.

In addition, he was involved in numerous Frankfurt associations, institutions and parishes. He was the first chairman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Frankfurt am Main. During his term of office the reorganization of the Frankfurt church system took place, through which six new individual congregations and synodal bodies were created. In 1906 he engaged the pastor Wilhelm Busch for the congregation of the not yet built Lukaskirche , the construction of which he did not live to see from 1912 to 1913.

Awards and honors

Moritz Schmidt-Metzler received numerous awards for his medical achievements and his voluntary work:

  • 1888: Medical Council
  • 1892 Secret Medical Council
  • 1899 Secret Medical Council and Honorary Member of the Royal Institute for Experimental Therapy
  • 1903 Real Privy Council
  • 1904 Extraordinary honorary member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society
  • 1905 Dr. theol. hc from the University of Marburg
  • 1907 honorary member of the German Society for Internal Medicine

He was awarded the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle and the Order of the Crown, 2nd class with a star .

literature

  • Seib, Berenike: Moritz Schmidt-Metzler. Physicians, networkers, trailblazers. Frankfurt am Main, 2015 ISBN 978-3-95542-125-0 .
  • Festschrift commemorating the opening of the newly built museum of the Senckenberg Society in Frankfurt am Main on October 13, 1907, Frankfurt am Main, 1907.
  • Körner, Otto: Memories of Moritz Schmidt-Metzler. In: Nature and Museum. Report of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main, 1908, pp. 35–48.