Vincenz von Kern

Vincenz von Kern, lithograph by Josef Lanzedelli the Elder. Ä. , circa 1820

Vincenz von Kern (born January 20, 1760 in Graz , † April 16, 1829 in Vienna ) was an Austrian doctor and surgeon.

Kern was born the son of a private civil servant and after graduating from high school, he prepared for a medical degree with a surgeon in Graz. However, Kern did not stay long in Graz and worked as a surgical assistant in Salzburg , Trieste and Venice . In 1783 he moved to the hospital in Sankt Marx , where he practiced and attended surgical lectures at the same time. After core had become in 1784 a Master of surgery and obstetrics, he received his doctorate in 1790 for Dr. chir. and in 1797 took over a professorship for surgery and obstetrics at the kk Lyceeum in Laibach . In addition to his eight years at the Lyceeum, he introduced vaccinations against smallpox in the Krain . After Kern also joined Dr. med. He traveled to Venice in 1803 and was introduced to the stone carving method . In 1805 Kern took over the chair of practical surgery at the University of Vienna , in 1824 he switched to the chair of theoretical surgery. The special accomplishments of Kerns include the establishment of the surgical reading society and the surgeon institute. Kern laid the foundation for a book collection that had already contained thousands of books by the time of his death, which supported doctors with scientific training, education and work. The surgeon institute that he initiated, on the other hand, laid the foundation stone for the Vienna School of Surgery. It awarded scholarships and trained a large number of surgeons in two-year specialty courses who subsequently worked in all parts of the monarchy. In the scientific field, Kern was considered a pioneer for open wound treatment and was one of the last great stone cutters. His main work “The stone complaints of the urinary bladder, its related evils and the bladder incision in both sexes” was already out of date at the time of publication, but his progressive work “Avis aux chirurgiens” was misunderstood.

Works

• Comments on the use of the baths. Laibach 1802
• Theorems from the manual part of medicine. For use during lectures. 1803
• Annals of the surgical clinic at the high school in Vienna.
• Avis aux chirurgiens pour les engager, a accepter, et d'introduire une method plus simple, plus naturelle et moins dispendieuse dans le pansement des blesses.
• The bladder stone complaints, their related evils and the bladder cut in both sexes. Vienna 1828
• The achievements of the surgical clinic at the high school in Vienna from April 18, 1805 to 1824.
• Observations and remarks from the field of practical surgery. 1828
• Treatises on injuries to the head and the perforation of the cranium. 1829

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kern, Vincenz Ritter . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 11th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1864, pp. 187–190 ( digitized version ).
• Ernst Julius Gurlt :  Kern, Vincenz Ritter von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 636-640.
• Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Vol. 3
• Kern, Vincent von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 301 f. (Direct links on p. 301 , p. 302 ).
• Manfred Skopec:  Kern, Vincenz Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 523 ( digitized version ).

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