Paul Albrecht Börner

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Paul Albrecht Börner (born May 25, 1829 in Jakobshagen ; † August 30, 1885 in Dresden ) was a German physician and an early author and editor of reference works on persons and institutions in the medical field.

Paul Albrecht Börner at the age of around 50

life and work

Born as the son of a district councilor and court director, Börner studied law in Berlin and Halle after attending grammar school in Prenzlau and education in Züllichau , then medicine in Königsberg , Würzburg and Greifswald . During his studies in 1848 he co-founded the Old Berlin Burschenschaft Teutonia , whose members were persecuted and which was dissolved by the authorities in 1853. He was the spokesman for the radicals at the Second Wartburg Festival , where he worked with Gustav Adolph Schlöffel , among others, for the right of the Poles to self-determination , whom he wanted to help with a volunteer corps. He took part in the revolution of 1848/49 by taking part in the street fights in Berlin, among other things. He was one of the keynote speakers at the Democratic Club . In Schleswig he fought against the Danes during this time and was arrested in Berlin in 1849 for his revolutionary activities, but later released.

In 1854 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . After his license to practice medicine in 1856, he practiced in Königswalde and Landsberg an der Warthe , then from 1863 in Berlin. In the Franco-Prussian War he took part as the chief doctor of a hospital train. In the following years he devoted himself more and more to medical journalism , placing particular emphasis on the topics of hygiene and public health care . In 1875 he founded the German Medical Weekly , in 1880 he founded the Reich Medical Calendar for Germany , RMK. He published the yearbook for practical medicine since 1879 and was also responsible for the magazine Deutsches Wochenblatt for health care and rescue services .

Paul Albrecht Börner died in Dresden in 1885 at the age of 56 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Publications (selection)

  • Disquisitio Historico-Literaria De Febre Intermittente Traumatica. Dissertation University of Greifswald 1854.
  • Memories of a revolutionary. Sketches from 1848. Edited by Emil Menke-Glückert , Leipzig 1920.

literature

  • Pagel: Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Physicians of the 19th Century , Berlin and Vienna 1901, Sp. 204–205 ( Zeno.org )
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 111-113.

notes

  1. ↑ The calendar is abbreviated to RMK in medical history works. Digital copies in the digital collection of medical history from ZB MED - Information Center for Life Sciences .
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 300.
personal data
SURNAME Borner, Paul Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Jakobshagen
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1885
Place of death Dresden