Richard Wiesel

Wilhelm Emil Richard Wiesel (born November 23, 1864 in Langewiesen ; † November 16, 1943 in Würzburg ) was a German doctor and owner of the "Sanatorium Dr. Wiesel ”in Ilmenau .

family

Richard Wiesel was a son of Johann Christian Heinrich Wiesel, a merchant in Langewiesen, and his wife Elisabeth Christiane Friederike, geb. Möller. On July 6, 1897, he married Elsbeth Fanny Mathilde Kossack. From this marriage a daughter was born.

education and profession

Wiesel attended high school in Weimar and later in Eisenach , where he passed the Abitur examination in 1886. In the winter semester of 1886/87 he began studying medicine at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen and joined the Borussia Berlin gymnastics association . In the summer semester of 1888 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , and in the following semesters to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Georg August University in Göttingen . At the University of Jena studied Wiesel from summer semester 1890. There he was in 1891 for MD PhD and put in the following year, the medical state examination from having success.

As early as 1891 he worked as a trainee doctor at the women's clinic in Wroclaw . From 1892 he worked as a general practitioner in Kassel and later in Radeburg . In 1892 he established himself as a general practitioner in Katzhütte .

In 1901, Wiesel took over the company under the name of "Sanitätsrat Dr. Prellers Kur- und Wasserheilanstalt “well-known spa clinic in Ilmenau as the owner and head doctor. He ran it until the 1930s as “Sanatorium Dr. Wiesel ”. Although the importance of the spa cures decreased more and more, he kept the treatments in the offer of his health clinic. Before the First World War , Wiesel was also a member of the bathing council of the Ilmenau spa town.

military service

As a one-year-old volunteer , Wiesel was fired due to a heart defect.

Publications

• Extrauterine pregnancy and its operative treatment examined from the point of view of the relevant recent literature. Dissertation from the Medical Faculty of the University of Jena. Neuenbahn publishing house, Jena 1891.
• A case of extensive X-ray burn of the chest and upper abdominal area. In: Advances in the field of X-rays. Volume 16, Issue 4. Verlag Graefe & Sillem, Hamburg 1909, p. 245.
• On the case history of nephrolithiasis. In: Archives for physical medicine and medical technology. In addition to a supplement, advances and innovations in the physical-chemical and photographic industry in their application to the entire field of practical medicine. Volume 1. Verlag Nemnich, Leipzig 1906, p. 107.

literature

• Hubertus Averbeck: From cold water cure to physical therapy. Reflections on people and at the time of the most important developments in the 19th century. European higher Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Bremen 2012, p 387. Digitalisat
• Reinhard Döring: The Ilmenau Promenades. On the trail of old memorials and resting places. With a treatise on the history of the spa by Silke Leisner. Typostudio, Ilmenau 1999, p. 222. ISBN 978-3-929730-25-8
• City of Ilmenau (ed.): Leafed through the local history. Hydrotherapy began in Ilmenau 170 years ago. Official Gazette of the City of Ilmenau from May 30, 2008. Non-official part. (No. 05/08), pp. 14-15. Digitized

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Turnerschaft Borussia (ed.): The old men of the Turnerschaft Borussia . Manuscript, Berlin 1907, p. 43 .
2. ↑ Hubertus Averbeck: From the cold water cure to physical therapy. Reflections on people and at the time of the most important developments in the 19th century . Europäische Hochschulverlag GmbH & Co. KG, Bremen 2012, p. 387 .