Otto Baring

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Albert Philipp Otto Baring , from 1841 von Baring (born October 17, 1806 , † March 3, 1867 in Hanover ) was a German doctor and obstetrician in the Kingdom of Hanover . He was also a member of the State Medical College of the Kingdom of Hanover with the rank and title of a secret senior medical council .

family

Otto Baring came from the Hanoverian line of the Baring family . He was the seventh child of the law firm and state economics council Albrecht Friedrich Georg Baring and Amalie geb. Scheele (1773-1824), daughter of the wealthy royal treasurer and later mining commissioner Scheele. Baring had seven siblings.

He married Auguste born in Göttingen in 1842. Deichmann (1808–1893), widow of the secretary of the Hanoverian Secret Chancellery in London and later Rentier Goltermann. The couple had no children.

Live and act

Baring was confirmed in Rethmar by the local pastor Ebbeke. He attended the High School of Hannover and studied from 1825 at the University of Goettingen Medicine , where he 1830 Doctor of Medicine with a published 1833 book on sponge formations in the human body doctorate was.

After his medical state examination Baring was first assistance surgeon in Garde - Hussars in Hanover. When the regiment was relocated to Verden , Baring resigned from the Hanoverian army as a royal military doctor . In 1837 he was appointed court surgeon and personal physician to King Ernst August of Hanover . A little later he received from the king the title of "royal physician and medical officer ". In 1841 Baring was raised to the personal nobility by being awarded the Guelph Order . Until the king's death in the same year, he was also his advisor.

Baring was a member of the State Medical College of the Kingdom of Hanover with the rank and title of a Secret Senior Medical Council. He was an advocate for natural remedies. Narrated from him is his saying: "Before every chamomile should remove the hat!" . Baring is considered to be the reorganizer of the Hanover military and medical system .

Baring was also in correspondence with the Brothers Grimm . He also received u in his house. a. Queen Marie of Hanover and the Crown Prince and later Duke of Cumberland Ernst August .

Barings eponymous nephew and later the Emperor Otto Rechnungsrat Baring (* 1854) gave from his collection to the Patriotic Museum to Hannover a golden box with blue enamel , the Baring of King George V had received. This bears the dedication: “King George V the Leibmedicus Dr. Baring in memory of King Ernst August ” . From the same collection, the museum received another golden box with the inscription “A. Kielmannsegge to his friend O. Baring 1864 ” , a gift from Count Adolph von Kielmannsegg , Ambassador Extraordinary Hanover and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Royal Court in Great Britain.

Awards (selection)

Fonts

literature

  • Adolf Baring : The Baring family, in particular the Hanoverian line, with 22 illustrations and a coat of arms in: German Roland Book for Gender Studies , published by the "Roland" Association for the Promotion of Stamm-, Wappen- und Siegelkunde EV, 1st volume, Dresden 1918, P. 7ff.
  • German Gender Book , Volume 102, Görlitz 1938.

References and comments

  1. ^ According to Adolf Baring (see literature) in his treatise on the lineage of the Hanoverian line of the Baring family, Otto Baring died on February 28, 1867
  2. ^ Wilhelm Stricker: Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlicher Nekrolog of the year 1867. In: Archive for pathological anatomy and for clinical medicine. Rudolf Virchow, p. 306 , accessed on May 5, 2015 .
  3. Notes from the field of natural science and medicine (1834)
  4. Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors, vol. 26
  5. ^ Deichert: History of the Hanoverian Medizinalwesens , 1908, p. 41
  6. Grimm-Sozietät zu Berlin e. V: Register of persons for the correspondence of the Brothers Grimm. Retrieved May 5, 2015 .
  7. Hannoversche Annalen for the entire medicine. P. 379 , accessed May 5, 2015 .
  8. ^ Repertory of the entire German literature. 32 (1842), p.35