Paul Albrecht (medical doctor)
Karl Martin Paul Albrecht (born March 6, 1851 in Hamburg , † September 15, 1894 ibid) was a German physician and philologist. His unfinished work “Leszing's Plagiate” is an example of philological eccentricity.
Career
Until the end of his 14th year, Albrecht attended a private school in Hamburg. After three years as a merchant in Manchester , he returned to Hamburg and attended the Johanneum's school for scholars until Easter 1871 . This was followed by medical studies in Jena , Berlin , Vienna and Kiel . In 1875 he was promoted to Dr. med. and in 1876 Dr. phil. PhD .
From 1874 he was a surgical assistant and until 1877 private lecturer in anatomy in Kiel. Then he went to Königsberg as a prosector and private lecturer . There he became a member of the Corps Hansea in 1882 . In 1884 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . After he had received the title of professor , he gave up his position and moved to Brussels as a private scholar and shortly afterwards back to his hometown. Mentally deranged, Albrecht attempted suicide , to which he succumbed on September 15, 1894.
Albrecht published around 200 papers on medical subjects (anatomy, comparative anatomy, embryology, surgery). In the last years of his life he was engaged in non-medical work. His work Leszing's Plagiate, which was laid out in several volumes but remained unfinished, is notorious . The six completed volumes were self-published in 1890 and 1891 and are considered by researchers to be eccentricities that got out of hand:
- Paul Albrecht is also wondrous: "Lessing's element of life is - and this has not yet been recognized - literary theft"; Albrecht proved no less than 1277 plagiarisms, not even in the complete work, but, as Hans Peter Woes [s] ner amusingly reports, only in part of the same, because when he went to print his detective story, a work that “consumed him completely must, died. "
Works
- Contributions to the torsion theory of the humerus and to the morphological position of the patella in the vertebrate series. Diss. Med. Kiel 1875.
- Contribution to the morphology of the omo-hyoides muscle and the ventral internal interbranchial muscles in the vertebrate series. Diss. Phil. Kiel 1876.
- Leszing's plagiarism. 6 volumes. Hamburg; Leipzig: Paul Albrecht's self-published 1890/91.
literature
- Wilhelm Hess : Albrecht, Karl Martin Paul . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 742.
- Karl Bobrzynski: On the literary plagiarism question. Krakow: self-published 1898.
- Philipp Theisohn: Plagiarism. An unoriginal literary history (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 351). Kröner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-520-35101-2 , especially pp. 387-399.
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Albrecht in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in the "Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of the Nineteenth Century" by Julius Pagel (1901)
- Entry in the Kiel directory of scholars
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the writing “Leszing”: “By the unwarranted spelling 'Leszing' Albrecht wants to denigrate his target yet further by attributing Slav origins to him.” - Ritchie Robertson: Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine. Oxford University Press 2009. p. 8. (on Google Books )
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 85/86.
- ↑ Manfred Lauermann : Lessing - a first “white Jew?”? A speech. In: Ingrid Lohmann; Wolfram Weisse (ed.): Dialogue between cultures. Historical and religious pedagogical aspects of intercultural education. Muenster; New York: Waxmann 1994. pp. 109-116, here pp. 110f. (on Google Books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Albrecht, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Albrecht, Karl Martin Paul (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician and philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1894 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |