Vincent Adelmann

Vinzenz Ferrer Adelmann (born January 13, 1780 in Würzburg , † March 20, 1850 in Fulda ) was a German doctor in Fulda and a rural hospital director.

Life

Vinzenz Adelmann was born on January 13, 1780 in Würzburg as the son of the city surgeon Dominikus Adelmann (1743-1821). Vincent was the fourth of eight children. After attending high school, he enrolled on April 28, 1798 as Chirurgiae Cand. to study at the University of Würzburg . He successfully completed his studies with a “most notable doctoral examination” and then became “first assistant at the Julius Hospitale” in Würzburg.

With the decree of April 17, 1806, Vinzenz Adelmann surgeon was appointed to the newly founded Wilhelmshospital at the rural infirmary, maternity and insane asylum in Fulda . In addition, Adelmann became a member of the Princely Medicinal College for the surgical subject and was responsible for teaching and training doctors, surgeons and midwives. When he was appointed to Fulda, Adelmann received the title of professor and an annual salary of 600 guilders, of which - as was customary at the time - 140 guilders were paid in kind: wheat, grain, oats and wood.

In the magazine Buchonia from 1880 - in commemoration of the 100th birthday - the following description can be found: “A delmann was a handsome, friendly man, not tall, of a squat figure. His exterior already bore the stamp of dignity and his expressive facial features proclaimed intelligence, cheerfulness of mind and goodness of heart! “The magazine also reports that he is“ in scientific contact with the most important authorities in the field of surgery and obstetrics ”and that he has good connections to the University of Würzburg and the medical professors and doctors there.

On June 13, 1817, Adelmann was appointed medical advisor, and on December 2, 1835, he was awarded the title of medical director. On October 1, 1840, the Senior Medical Council follows, and finally, on May 17, 1844, he also receives the dignity of a Secret Medical Council.

Some scientific publications from the pen of Adelmann are also documented; Such a treatise on the operation of a bacon tumor (from the 1830s), the annual reports of the maternity hospital in Fulda and the description and drawing of a birth bed that Vinzenz Adelmann had invented.

On January 6, 1842, Adelmann sought release from his duties as a rural hospital doctor; but expressly asked to remain a member of the board of directors of the rural hospital. Only at the turn of the year 1848/1849 did he let himself be completely released from his obligations.

Adelmann was married twice. His first marriage to Frau Therese resulted in two sons and a daughter. After the death of his first wife on December 28, 1818, he married Wilhelmine, née Wilhelmine, on September 27, 1819. Weikard, niece of the famous doctor Melchior Adam Weikard (1742–25 July 1803), who worked as a personal physician at the Russian court of the tsars. This marriage has two sons. Wilhelmine Adelmann dies on June 21, 1862. Adelmann's two sons from his first marriage, Georg and Gustav, followed in their father's professional footsteps. The eldest son, Georg von Adelmann (1811–1888) was professor of medicine and director of the surgical clinics in Dorpat from 1841 to 1866 and later lived in Berlin. The interesting work Annals of the surgical department of the rural hospital in Fulda during the years 1835, 1836, which appeared in Marburg in 1840, comes from him. On the one hand it is an important source of the medical history of Fulda, on the other hand it is of general importance for the history of medicine. For example, we read the finding, which seems macabre by today's standards: "Anyone who has amputated living people will have had sufficient opportunity to convince themselves that the more the knife penetrates the more the pain decreases."

The second son, Gustav Adelmann (1812–1871) maintained a medical practice in Fulda and is called in 1851 as "Physikus zu Fulda". It is also known that he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Royal Bavarian Order of Merit. The only daughter Marie married the Hessian lawyer and member of parliament Valentin Joseph Werthmüller .

On March 21, 1850, the district director of Fulda reports the death of Adelmann to the electoral ministry in Kassel. Adelmann died suddenly on March 20, 1850 as a result of a shock flow. Just two days later, on March 23, 1850, the burial took place in the (old) municipal cemetery in Fulda.

Since 1964 a street in Fulda in the Ziehers-Süd district has been named Dr.-Adelmann-Straße.

literature

• Stefan Arend : Vinzenz Adelmann - surgeon and obstetrician in Fulda (1780–1850). In: Jahrbuch Landkreis Fulda 1999. Fulda 1998, pp. 149–155.
• Werner Dettelbacher: The Würzburg doctor family Adelmann. Würzburg medical history reports 24, 2005, pp. 63–72; here: p. 65 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Werner Dettelbacher: The Würzburg doctor family Adelmann. Würzburger medical history reports 24, 2005, p. 63–72, here: p. 63 f.