Theodor Kortum

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Wilhelm Theodor Siegfried Kortüm (born November 28, 1785 in Neubrandenburg , † March 4, 1858 in Neustrelitz ) was a German doctor.

Life

Kortüm was a son of the pastor of the Neubrandenburg Marienkirche Johann Christof Paschen Kortüm (1752–1800) and his wife Wilhelmine Elisabeth, née. Gerling (1760-1811). Friedrich Kortüm was his cousin.

After attending grammar school in Neubrandenburg, he studied human medicine at the University of Halle and was awarded a doctorate there on October 8, 1806. med. PhD. He established himself as a general practitioner in Penzlin . In 1830, Grand Duke Georg appointed him second member of the Medicinalcollegium , the health authority of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , as well as senior medical councilor and court medicus in Neustrelitz . In 1836 he was appointed chairman of the college and promoted to secret senior medical officer and grand ducal personal physician.

He was married to a sister of Friedrich and Carl Müller . One of the couple's daughters, Julie Wilhelmine Sofie, was married to the pastor Eberhard Becker .

His extensive estate library of more than 1,500 volumes came as a gift from the widow to the Grand Ducal Library in Neustrelitz in 1858.

Fonts

  • De iritide. Diss. Hall 1806

literature

  • Axel Wilhelmi : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. A new edition, completion and continuation of the Dr. med. A. Blanck's collective work. Schwerin 1901, p. 79 (No. 386)
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5312 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Krüger-Haye : The pastors in the land of Stargard. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 69 (1904), pp. 1–270 ( full text ), p. 133
  2. ^ Friedrich Latendorf : Addendum to the history of the Grand Ducal Library in Neustrelitz. In: Serapeum 1858, p. 384 .
personal data
SURNAME Kortum, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kortüm, Wilhelm Theodor Siegfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubrandenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1858
Place of death Neustrelitz