Theodor Thierfelder

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Theodor Thierfelder

Benjamin Theodor Thierfelder (born December 10, 1824 in Meißen , † March 7, 1904 in Rostock ) was a German physician who first described the typhus fever curve. In 1898 he was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Rostock.

Life

Theodor Thierfelder came from a widely ramified medical family and was the eldest son of Meißen city ​​physicist Johann Gottlieb Thierfelder (1799–1867) and his wife Henriette, née. Immisch, a doctor's daughter from Knauthain near Leipzig. His younger brothers were the medical advisor Felix Thierfelder (1826-1891) and the pathologist (Ferdinand) Albert Thierfelder (1842-1908).

After graduating from the Fürstenschule St. Afra zu Meißen , he studied medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1841 , where he received his doctorate in 1846. phil. and in 1848 also in Leipzig for Dr. med. PhD. During his studies he became a member of the Afrania country team . In 1851 Thierfelder became an employee in the Medical Clinic of the University of Leipzig and one of the most important assistants to Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich when introducing clinical temperature measurement. His description of the fever curve of typhus abdominalis , written between 1852 and 1854, is still valid today. In 1855 Theodor Thierfelder accepted an unscheduled professorship in the Medical Department of the University of Rostock, which was elevated to a full professorship and full professor of internal medicine at the University of Rostock with the construction of the University Hospital in 1856 .

In 1860 Thierfelder was appointed a member of the Grand Ducal Medical Commission and the Senior Medical Council. Thierfelder was elected 816th Rector at the University of Rostock in 1868. After 46 years of activity, Thierfelder was officially released in 1901.

Theodor Thierfelder was married to Gertrud, born in 1855. Naumann (born December 19, 1829 in Knautheim; † June 6, 1900), daughter of the later chief catechist and early preacher to St. Petri in Leipzig, M. Wilhelm Naumann and sister of his brother Felix's first wife. One son was the Tübingen physiologist and biochemist Hans Thierfelder (1858–1930). The daughter Mathilde (* 1855) was married to the Rostock geologist and mineralogist Eugen Geinitz . The daughter Dorothee (1860–1912) had been married to the Schwerin judge Carl Goesch since 1878 .

Honors

  • 1858 Medical Council
  • 1860 Chief Medical Officer
  • 1871 Knight of the House Order of the Wendish Crown
  • 1874 Secret Medical Council
  • 1894 Secret Senior Medical Councilor
  • 1895 Commander of the House Order of the Wendish Crown
  • 1897 Associate member of the Imperial Health Department
  • 1898 Grand Commander of the House Order of the Wendish Crown
  • 1898 honorary citizen of the city of Rostock

See also

literature

  • Walter Schmidt: Afraner AH album. 1839-1909. Jachner & Fischer, Leipzig 1909, p. 23.
  • Werner Teichmann: Theodor Thierfelder. In: Angela Hartwig, Tilmann Schmidt (ed.): The Rectors of the University of Rostock 1419–2000. [Contributions to the history of the University of Rostock; 23]. Universitätsdruckerei / Universitätsarchiv, Rostock 2000. ISBN 3-86009-173-5 .
  • 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. 10069 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1929, pp. 260–261 [with age portrait].
  2. ↑ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1929, pp. 137, 260-261.
  3. ^ Genealogy of the Thierfelder family

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personal data
SURNAME Thierfelder, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thierfelder, Benjamin Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1904
Place of death Rostock