Philipp Safe
Philipp Friedrich Safe (born June 14, 1803 in Heilbronn ; † June 21, 1861 in Baden-Baden ) was a doctor and patron in Heilbronn. He came from a family of pharmacists in Heilbronn ( Safe'sche Apotheke ) and achieved national importance due to some medical successes. In his hometown he made extensive foundations for charitable purposes several times. He was also instrumental in founding the Gräßle Society , which was essentially made up of the circle of friends of Safe. Heilbronner Safe Street has been named after him since 1872 .
Life
He was the son of Heilbronn pharmacist Gottfried Friedrich Christoph Safe and Johanna Juliane Charlotte Kornacher, a daughter of Heilbronn mayor Georg Christoph Kornacher . Philipp's younger brother Karl August was destined to join his parents' pharmacy, while Philipp graduated from the upper secondary school in Stuttgart. There he stayed with Karl von Gemmingen at Christian Gottlieb Hölder's . With von Gemmingen he moved to Tübingen to study in 1821. Safer studied medicine there with Christian Gmelin , Ferdinand von Gmelin , Gustav Schübler and Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Autenrieth . Safer finally received his doctorate in 1825 with a paper on blood poisoning . He then traveled through Western Europe for three years. He earned his living from a considerable fortune inherited from his father.
In 1828 he established himself as a doctor in Heilbronn. In 1831 he became a district prison doctor. In the same year he donated 5,000 guilders to the city of Heilbronn, which were used to build the new Paulinenspital, which replaced the old Katharinenspital and, after its opening, became a senior surgeon there. His treatment successes against typhoid with soap cures received national attention. Safer also published his successes in the use of Authenrieth's soap . In 1845 he applied for the position of senior doctor at the Heilbronn District Office , but was defeated by his cousin Georg Klett in the selection process . Shortly after the discovery of the narcotic properties of sulfur ether, in January 1847, Secureer was the first surgeon in Württemberg to perform an operation on a patient who was anesthetized with sulfur ether. In the same year he offered 500 guilders for the construction of a horse-drawn tram on the wool house area . He was a collector of engravings and books.
In addition to his medical work, Sicherheitser also dealt with ghost apparitions, about which he began to exchange ideas with the Weinsberg senior medical officer Justinus Kerner as early as 1832 . He had a lifelong friendship with Kerner.
From 1832 he was married to his cousin Wilhelmine Klett, a daughter of Lisette Kornacher , his mother's sister. The marriage ended in divorce in 1844. In 1845 the separated spouses renewed their wills, and Philipp Safe bequeathed a large part of his fortune to the city of Heilbronn for the construction of a trade school and the further expansion of the Paulinen Hospital.
After separating from his wife, the bachelor sought a secure hold in the social life of his circle of friends. After a foul joke about the divorce from the Heilbronn merchant Rudolf von Rauch's mouth, the Friends of Safer looked for a way to exclude Rauch from the group without having to forego the hours together in the restaurant of the landlord David Gräßle. To this end, the Freundeskreis founded the exclusive Gräßle Society in 1845, which , in addition to Safe, Kerner and von Gemmingen, also included the theologian David Friedrich Strauss , Mayor Heinrich Titot and other notables. Safer was appointed chairman of the society as Count Palatinate and cultivated a bizarre veneration for the Württemberg Duke Karl Eugen . The savior, who liked to travel, kept in contact with Strauss even after he had moved from Heilbronn, and met with him and Kerner elsewhere as well.
The red-haired and in his later years quite corpulent man is described as a coarse and quirky person, who, however, also possessed a sharp mind and a lot of subtlety. He practiced in Heilbronn until 1859. During a stay at a spa in Baden-Baden, he died in 1861 of a stroke. David Friedrich Strauss wrote the obituary for him.
According to his will, around 80,000 guilders that had come to the city of Heilbronn from his will should have been used to build a commercial or industrial establishment. Instead, however, the funds flowed into water pipeline construction in 1874. In 1872 the Sicherheitserstraße in Heilbronn was named after him. His half-length portrait was also among the portraits of deserving Heilbronn residents that adorned the walls of the stairwell of the old town hall .
literature
- David Friedrich Strauss: Words of Memory of Dr. Ph. Fr. Safer spoken in front of the members of the Gessle. Society after his funeral on the morning of June 24, 1861 , Schell'sche Buchdruckerei, Heilbronn 1861 ( digitized version of the edition in Strauss' Kleinen Schriften , New Series, 1866)
- Simon M. Haag: Quirky and coarse, but ingenious - Philipp Safe (1803–1861) . In: Christhard Schrenk (ed.): Heilbronner Köpfe II. Life pictures from two centuries. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1999, ISBN 3-928990-70-5 ( Small series of publications from the Heilbronn City Archives. 45), pp. 141–158.
- Wilhelm Steinhilber : The health system in old Heilbronn, 1281–1871. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1956 ( Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 4), DNB 454862377 , pp. 151/152, 281/282.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Safer, Philipp |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Safer, Philipp Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor, founder of the Gräßle Society |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1861 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |