Robert von Olshausen

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Robert Michaelis von Olshausen

Robert Michaelis Olshausen , von Olshausen since 1910 (born July 3, 1835 in Kiel , † February 1, 1915 in Berlin ), was a German gynecologist and obstetrician .

Life

Training and work

Robert Olshausen was born as the eldest son of the orientalist Justus Olshausen (1800-1882) and his wife Maria in Kiel. In 1853 he passed his Abitur there and then studied medicine at the Universities of Kiel and Königsberg . In Königsberg he earned his doctorate in medicine in 1857 with the thesis De laryngitis membranoeae epidemia .

1859 Olshausen went to the Women's Clinic of the University of Berlin , in 1861 he was an assistant at Halle , where he in the same year with the font Observationum de partubus Pelvi angusta impeditis particula habilitated . In 1862 he was named associate professor and director of the university women's clinic. In 1864 he was appointed full professor. During his time as director of the gynecological clinic, its new building also fell from 1878. In order to be able to guarantee the presence of the director in the obstetrics department, he was given a service villa next to the clinic.

In 1879 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In the years 1880 and 1881 Olshausen held the office of Rector of the University of Halle . Olshausen turned down a call to the University of Leipzig in 1886, but went to Berlin the following year, where he succeeded Karl Schroeder (1838–1887). On the 100th anniversary of the university in 1910, he was raised to the Prussian nobility .

In addition to numerous articles for scientific journals, Olshausen also wrote articles for textbooks and was the editor of the specialist journal Zeitschrift für Obstilfe und Gynäkologie . With Johann Veit (1852–1917), he revised Karl Schroeder's textbook on obstetrics, including postpartum illnesses and surgical theory .

Grave site of the Olshausen couple in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg

family

Robert Michaelis von Olshausen was married to Georgine Johanna Dorothea Amalie Rathgen (1842–1911) from 1865. Her nickname was Ina.

His daughter Marie Margarete (* March 12, 1866 in Halle; † February 14, 1965 in Potsdam) married on October 3, 1887 with Walther von Volkmann, a son of the Halle surgeon Richard von Volkmann (1830-1889) and his wife Anna by Schlechtendahl. His granddaughter Klothilde von Olshausen (1907–1997) was an archivist and historian at the Magdeburg State Archives .

Death and grave

Robert von Olshausen died in Berlin in 1915 at the age of 79 and was buried next to his wife, who had died four years earlier, in a wall grave in the Matthäus-Kirchhof in Schöneberg . He had already acquired the hereditary funeral in 1897. His grave has been dedicated as a Berlin honorary grave since 1952 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Robert Olshausen: De laryngitidis membranaceae epidemia Regimonti annis 1856 et 1857 observata . Dalkowski, Königsberg 1857. (Dissertation)
  • Robert Olshausen: Observationum de partubus pelvi angusta impeditis particula . Gebauer-Schwetschke, Halle 1862. (Habilitation thesis)
  • Robert Olshausen: The diseases of the ovaries . In: Handbuch d. general u. special surgery. Vol. 4, Stuttgart 1879.
  • Karl Schroeder: Textbook of obstetrics including pathology in pregnancy and the puerperium . Revised by R. Olshausen and J. Veit, Cohen, Bonn 1891.

literature

  • W. Pritze, A. Ebert: Robert von Olshausen. Pioneer in surgical gynecology . Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie, Leipzig 1993, 115: 291-296.
  • Georg Winter: Robert von Olshausen's scientific life's work . German Verlagsges., Stuttgart 1915.

Web links

Commons : Robert Michaelis von Olshausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Alter St. Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin. A cemetery guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-936242-16-4 , p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Olshausen, Robert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olshausen, Robert Michaelis von (full name); Michaelis, Robert (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1915
Place of death Berlin