Simon Unterberger

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Simon Thomas Unterberger ( Russian Семён Фёдорович Унтербергер Semjon Fyodorowitsch Unterberger , born February 15, 1848 in Simbirsk ; † July 2, 1928 in Dorpat ) was a Russian military doctor and a privy councilor . His main focus was on the fight against tuberculosis .

Life

Simon Unterberger was first at the Blumberg Elementary School and from 1858 to 1867 at the Gouvernementsgymnasium in Dorpat. He studied medicine at the University of Dorpat from 1868 to 1873 and received his doctorate in medicine in 1873. He completed his further training between 1873 and 1874 in Munich , Berlin and Vienna .

career

In the fall of 1874 he became an assistant doctor at the Nikolai Children's Hospital in Saint Petersburg . During the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877 - 1878 he was responsible for a medical unit in Montenegro and was sent to work as a military doctor in 1877. He served 1878-1879 as a junior doctor in 146. Zarizynski- Infantry - regiment and from 1879 to 1884 in the Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment . From 1886 he served for over 10 years as a senior physician in the Grenadier-Leibgarde Regiment on horseback and was also head of the surgical department of the Krasnoselski Military Hospital for the first 6 years . In 1884 he became the chief physician of the hospital in Tsarskoye Selo and opened a sanatorium here to fight tuberculosis. From 1903 to 1913 he was an honorary doctor and corps physician of the Guard Corps in Saint Petersburg. After the October Revolution he lived in Finland from 1918 to 1921 , then moved to Estonia and died on July 2, 1928 in Dorpat, today's Tartu .

Honors

Simon Unterberger was a member of the Union to Fight Tuberculosis, the Medical Philanthropic Committee, the Russian Society for the Maintenance of Public Health and the Tsarskoye Selo Local Committee of the Russian Red Cross. In 1908, at the International Congress on Tuberculosis in Washington, DC, he was awarded the Washington Gold Medal for achievements in the field of tuberculosis treatment and prevention. For his services he was decorated with the following medals:

Works

  • About the effect of arsenic acid on the organs of the blood circulation and on the intestinal tract. Diss. Dorpat 1873, 63 p. ( Digitized version )
  • About the diuretic effect of the oriental leaf in nephritis scarlatinosa. St. Petersburg Medical Weekly 2 (1877), 293-296.
  • The Neuber-Lister permanent bandage at the dressing station. St. Petersburg Medical Weekly 5 (1880), 367-370.
  • A case of primary trepanation with good experience in a skull fracture with brain injury. St. Petersburg Medical Weekly 7 (1882), 53–56.
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis and its treatment in home sanatoriums. St. Petersburg medical weekly NF 13 [= 21] (1896), 49-78.
  • On the necessity of the establishment of house sanatoriums for tuberculosis in the military hospitals, taking into account the current point of view on the tuberculosis question. [1] , Dtsch. milit. Zschr., 1898. - Berlin, printed in the Kgl. Hofbuchdruckerei von ES Mittler & Sohn, 1898, (2), pp. 15–27, half-linen volume of the time.
  • About the necessity of the facilities in the military hospitals. German military medical journal 27 (1898), 14-27.
  • The question of tuberculosis at the time of the congress in Berlin from 24.-27. May 1899. St. Petersburg medical weekly NF 16 [= 24] (1899), 269-276.
  • On the question of the redemption of consumption. St. Petersburg medical weekly NF 18 [= 26] (1901), 375-380.
  • About the disposition to tuberculosis and its control through sanatoriums. Journal of Tuberculosis and Sanatoriums 2 (1901), 32–43.
  • Heredity in the question of consumption. Transactions of the 6th International Congress against Tuberculosis, Washington, September 28 to October 5, 1908. Vol. 1.1. Philadelphia / PA 1908, 129-141; engl. Summary: Inheritance in consumption, p. 141.

Origin and family

Family coat of arms of the Unterberger family

Simon came from the Russo-Baltic Unterberger family , who had lived in Riga since the end of the 18th century and whose origins lay in Salzburg . His father was the veterinarian and Russian Real State Councilor Friedrich Unterberger (1810-1921), his uncle, his father's brother, was veterinary professor Alexander Unterberger (1827-1875) and his brother was the Russian general and governor Paul Simon Unterberger (1842-1921 ). In 1887 Simon married Marie Hirsch and they had a daughter.

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personal data
SURNAME Unterberger, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unterberger, Simon Thomas; Унтербергер, Семен Федорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Military doctor and specialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Simbirsk
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1928
Place of death Dorpat