Nikolaus Heinrich Julius

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Nikolaus Heinrich Julius (born October 3, 1783 in Altona ; † August 20, 1862 in Hamburg , also Nicolaus Heinrich Julius ) was a German doctor. He reformed the prison system in Prussia and worked as a writer.

Life

"Nikolaus Heinrich Julius Dr. med. ”, Philanthropic collective grave ,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

Nikolaus Heinrich Julius was the son of Isaak and Esther Julius, née Heymann. He attended the High School to the Gray Monastery in Berlin before moving to Heidelberg his medical studies began. Julius received his doctorate on February 11, 1809 in Würzburg.

He was baptized Catholic and moved to Hamburg, where from 1813 he took part in the wars of liberation in the Hanseatic Legion . From 1815 he worked there again as a doctor before moving to Berlin in 1828.

In 1834 he traveled to America , in 1836 he moved back to Hamburg. Four years later he moved back to Berlin, where he carried out the prison reforms before retiring in Hamburg in 1849 and from then on only worked as a writer. There he died 13 years later.

Alongside Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier , Julius is considered the founder of prison science. In the Ohlsdorf cemetery , Nikolaus Heinrich Julius, among others, is commemorated on the collective grave plate " Philanthropists " in the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery.

His family book (friendship album) with entries from the years 1813 to 1836 is preserved and digitized in the Hamburg State and University Library.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Nikolaus Heinrich Julius  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cod. In scrin. 222 d, digitized version
personal data
SURNAME Julius, Nikolaus Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Julius, Nicolaus Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, reformer of the prison system in Prussia and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1862
Place of death Hamburg