Rudolf von Hößlin

Rudolf Ludwig Theodor Balthasar von Hößlin (born May 7, 1858 in Munich ; † February 5, 1936 there ) was a German doctor, neurologist and secret medical adviser .

Life

Rudolf Ludwig Balthasar von Hößlin

Kuranstalt Neuwittelsbach (approx. 1910)

He came from the noble family von Hößlin and was the youngest of three children of the wholesaler Theodor Arnold Balthasar von Hößlin (1813–1869) and his wife Emilie, née Heinzelmann. His father lived in Philadelphia during Rudolf's youth . According to his upper class origins, he was privately educated, including a. by the classical philologist Georg Gött. He passed his Abitur in 1876 at Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium , with Karl Schlösser , Gustav von Schoch , Carl Seitz and Ludwig Wüllner , among others . He then studied medicine at the University of Munich , including with Hugo von Ziemssen , and in Strasbourg . In 1883 he received his doctorate as Dr. med. with a sixteen-page dissertation , which he wrote under Carl von Voit , with the title On the water and fat content of organs in various pathological conditions . He became an assistant to Carl Langenbuch at the Lazarus Hospital in Berlin and traveled to Paris and Vienna . As an assistant at von Ziemssen in Munich, he specialized in the fields of spectrophotometry and sphygmography . In 1885 he founded the sanatorium, later the Neuwittelsbach health resort , for internal medicine and nervous diseases, which he headed for decades. One of his best-known patients was the physician Emil von Behring , with whom Hößlin was in close correspondence even after his treatment in the Neuwittelsbach sanatorium (1907/10). He published papers on neurasthenia , hydrotherapy , spinal disorders, neuralgia in diabetes , mental illness in nephritis , and central and peripheral paralysis ( paresis ) in pregnancy and after childbirth. The "Hößlin sign" is named after Hößlin to distinguish between real and simulated paresis. With Franz Carl Müller and others, he published the “Handbook of Neurasthenia” in 1893.

Rudolf von Hößlin was married to Ella Fromm (* 1866). The marriage had five children: Margarethe (* 1887), Elisabeth (* 1892), Paula (* 1895), Hans Gustav (* 1899) and Dora (* 1903). His older brother, Gustav , was at times the personal physician of King Ludwig III. von Bayern , the eldest brother Georg became a painter.

Works

• About the water and fat content of the organs in various pathological conditions. Inaugurial dissertation from the University of Munich. Munich 1883.
• On the treatment of chronic diseases of the spinal cord, and the advantages of local cold stimuli in them . Lehmann, Munich 1891.
• Medical report from the Neuwittelsbach sanatorium near Munich January 1 to December 31, 1891. Munich 1892.
• Pathological anatomy of nerurasthenia. Transitional forms of neurasthenia in mental illnesses , in: Handbuch der Neurasthenie (with FC Müller). FCW Vogel, Leipzig 1893.
• About Obesity Treatment. Lehmann, Munich 1900.
• The maternal paralysis of pregnancy. Published by August Hirschwald. Berlin 1905.
• About multiple sclerosis: exogenous etiology, pathogenesis and course. Lehmann, Munich 1934.

literature

• Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift 46, 1899, p. 312.
• Isidor Fischer (ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Berlin and Vienna, Vol. 1, 1932.
• Werner Zinkand, Nina Raffalt: Hans Gött 1883–1974. Life and work. Munich 2000.
• Otto Dornblüth: Clinical Dictionary. 13./14. Edition (1927) online
• Hößlin's correspondence with Emil von Behring in the Behring-Nachlass digital online database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ geneall.net
2. ↑ ^{a b} Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1875/76
3. ↑ cf. Zinkand / Raffalt 2000, p. 7 ff.
4. ↑ krankenhaus-neuwittelsbach.de

swell

• Genealogical private archive of Hößlin.