Otto Völker (doctor)

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Otto Völker (born April 15, 1843 in Salder , † July 10, 1892 in Braunschweig ) was a German surgeon .

Life

Tournamentstrasse 2 Braunschweig

Nations studied at the Royal University of Greifswald under Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben which there a chair held for surgery and under which he in 1867 with his thesis on the treatment of tumors by means of injections by the method of Karl Thiersch to Dr. med. received his doctorate .

In 1872 Völker settled down as a general practitioner in Braunschweig, where in 1873 he lived in the house with the insurance number 2577 at Aegidienmarkt 11 and worked as a surgeon and obstetrician . From 1874 to 1883 Völker practiced in the house with the insurance number 451 (from 1882: 451 II.), Tournamentstrasse 2 , the widow of the merchant Hodann , who in addition to Major a. D. Wegener lived in the house. From 1786 to 1944, the Alerd Foundation was located in the neighboring house (Assekuranz number 636) at Tournamentstrasse 1 . From 1884 to 1886 Völker lived in the house with the insurance company number 4863 at Wilhelmithorpromenade 30.

After Völker headed the surgical department of the Ducal Hospital in Braunschweig as head from 1885 , he also became a member of the senior medical school in 1888 . In the years 1887 and 1888 Völker lived in the house with the insurance company number 5031 at Casparistraße 9 and after his appointment as medical councilor in 1889 moved to the house with the insurance company number 4652 in the Wendenthorpromenade 3, which he had bought and where he lived until his death in 1892. After the death of his wife Else in 1895, his heirs rented the house to the factory owner August Pott in 1900 .

His successor as head of the surgical department of the ducal hospital in Braunschweig was the highly successful, highly valued and respected surgeon Hermann Seidel in the city .

Honors

literature

  • Julius Pagel (Hrsg.): Voelker, Otto In: Biographical lexicon of excellent doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1901; unchanged reprint Basel and Munich 1989. ( digitized , column 1780 and digitized , page 931)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Julius Pagel (ed.): Voelker, Otto In: Biographical Lexicon of excellent doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1901; unchanged reprint Basel and Munich 1989. ( digitized , column 1780 and digitized , page 931)
  2. ↑ a b c Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Adreßbuch 1872-1893.
  3. ↑ Karin Hausen: "... an elm for the swaying ivy". Married couples in the educated middle class. Ideals and realities in the late 18th and 19th centuries. In: Ute Frevert (Ed.): Citizens. Gender relations in the 19th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1987, page 115. ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Paul Zimmermann : Hermann Seidel †. In: Paul Zimmermann (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Magazin. Vol. 1, No. 7, November 24, 1895, pp. 52-54 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Julius Pagel (ed.): Seidel, Hermann In: Biographisches Lexikonender Ärzte des nineteenth Century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1901; unchanged reprint Basel and Munich 1989. ( digitized , column 1574 and digitized , page 828)
  6. ↑ a b Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag (ed.): Braunschweigisches address book for the year 1889. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag. Braunschweig. 1889. ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Peoples, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Balance
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1892
Place of death Braunschweig