Theodor Puschmann
Theodor Puschmann (born May 4, 1844 in Löwenberg / Prussian Silesia , † September 28, 1899 in Vienna ) was a German medical historian .
life and work
Theodor Puschmann studied medicine at the universities of Berlin , Marburg , Vienna and Munich . In Marburg he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He deepened his studies through research stays in England, France and Italy and lived for a year as a doctor in Egypt and practiced in Cairo. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he served as a doctor in a reserve hospital. He then passed the medical state examination in Munich and practiced in Vienna for a year. In 1872 he settled as a general practitioner in Munich and turned under the influence of Bernard of Gudden of psychiatry to.
Due to his research work , Puschmann completed his habilitation in 1878 at the University of Leipzig for the history of medicine. In 1879 he went to the University of Vienna as an associate professor of this subject and successor to Romeo Seligmann . In 1888 he was appointed full professor. In the academic year 1898/99 he was Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna. He died in 1899 at the age of 55. He bequeathed his fortune and his library to the University of Vienna to establish a medical-historical museum. In 1889 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Fonts (selection)
- On the therapy of peritonitis . Marburg 1869 (dissertation)
- Richard Wagner. A psychiatric study . Berlin 1873
- Alexander von Tralles: Original text and translation along with an introductory treatise: a contribution to the history of medicine . Vienna 1878–1879. Reprint Amsterdam 1963
- Medicin in Vienna for the last hundred years . Vienna 1884. Reprinted in Paris 1977
- Supplements to Alexander Trallianus: Fragments from Philumenus and Philagrius together with a previously unpublished treatise on eye diseases . Berlin 1886
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History of medical education from the earliest times to the present . Leipzig 1889
- Translation into English by Evan H. Hare: A history of medical education from the most remote to the most recent times . London 1891. Reprinted New York 1966
- At Easter in Spain , travel signs (Bresl. 1893)
- The history of the doctrine of contagion . Vienna 1895
- Manual of the history of medicine . Three volumes, Jena 1902–1905. Reprint Hildesheim 1971
literature
- Wolfgang G. Locher: Puschmann, Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 13 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Marlene Jantsch: Puschmann Theodor, medicohistorian. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 344.
- Werner E. Gerabek : Puschmann, Theodor. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1204.
Web links
- Literature by Theodor Puschmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of the lectures of Theodor Puschmann at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1878 to winter semester 1879)
Individual evidence
- ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 16. Leipzig 1908, p. 465.
- ↑ Werner E. Gerabek: Puschmann, Theodor. 2005, p. 1204.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Puschmann, Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Puschmann, Ferdinand Theodor Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medical historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Löwenberg in Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1899 |
| Place of death | Vienna |