Rudolf Krause (medic, 1834)

Friedrich Rudolf Hermann Krause (also Friedrich Hermann Rudolph Krause , born September 30, 1834 in Graetz , Province of Posen , † July 24, 1895 in Schwerin ) was a German physician and anthropologist .

Life

Rudolf Krause was the eldest son of the pastor Caesar Wilhelm Alexander Krause (1807-1862), who worked as pastor in Graetz in 1832, in 1840 as provost of St. Berhardin in Breslau and in 1856 as chief pastor of St. Nikolai in Hamburg .

Rudolf Krause attended the Realschule Zum Heiligen Geist and the Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau and then studied medicine at the University of Halle and the University of Breslau , where he received his doctorate in 1858. med. received his doctorate . After working as a military doctor in the Hanseatic contingent as a company doctor , he went to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , received further ophthalmological training with Albrecht von Graefe and acquired the ophthalmic surgical techniques developed by Graefe. Towards the end of 1860 he settled in Hamburg as a doctor and was able to prove a number of successful eye operations here after a short time. In 1864 he took part in the Second Schleswig-Holstein War as a volunteer . In the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871 he was seconded as a doctor to the Hamburg war clubs and led the first two hospital trains to France. Rudolf Krause became a board member of the Association for Art and Science in 1874 and for many years headed the Association for Public Health Care , the Association for the Introduction of Cremation and the Association for Scientific Entertainment in Hamburg , which ran the association's own journal negotiations of the Association for Scientific Entertainment in Hamburg issued.

As early as 1870 he was involved in the Hamburg-Altona group of the German Anthropological Society, participated in numerous excavations and the establishment of a Hamburg collection of prehistoric antiquities.

With the ethnographer Johannes Dietrich Eduard Schmeltz , he published a work in 1881 on the ethnographic-anthropological department of the Godeffroy Museum in Hamburg.

On February 3, 1881 Friedrich Hermann Rudolph Krause was registered in the Anthropology, Ethnology and Geography section under matriculation no. 2300 accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In 1891 he moved to Schwerin, already seriously ill, where he was looked after by his wife until the end. His body was transferred to Hamburg and buried on July 28, 1895 in the family crypt in the St. Nicolaifriedhof in Hamburg.

Fonts (selection)

• De forma pelvis congenita . Dissertation at the University of Breslau from July 27, 1858
• Across macrophale skulls from the New Hebrides . In: Negotiations of the Association for Natural Science Entertainment in Hamburg, Hamburg 1877, pp. 100–136, panels VI – VII ( digitized version )
• With Johannes Dietrich Eduard Schmeltz: The ethnographic-anthropological department of the Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg . A contribution to the customer of the South Sea peoples. L. Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg 1881. ( digitized version )

Web links

• Member entry of Rudolph Krause at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

literature

• Carl Hermann Knoblauch , Karl von Fritsch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 31. Issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1895, p. 169 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
• Ludwig Prochownik : Rudolf Krause † . In: Correspondence sheet of the German Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory, 27, Munich 1896, pp. 1–2 ( digitized version )
• Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 214 ( archive.org ).