Werner von Noorden

Werner von Noorden (born May 20, 1860 in Bonn , † May 6, 1945 on the island of Rügen ) was a German physician and temporarily spa doctor in Bad Homburg in front of the height .

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origin

Werner von Noorden came from a Frisian family that derives its origin from the city of Norden . The last generations of the family had their residence in Holland , like his great-grandfather the medic Johannes von Noorden, who worked in Rotterdam . His grandfather Johannes von Noorden served as an officer in the Prussian army and later settled in Bonn. The family had numerous scholars of high standing.

Werner von Noorden was the son of the historian Carl von Noorden and his wife Elizabeth Fanny, born in England. Lavino. his great-grandfather Christian Friedrich Nasse was the director of the medical clinic at the newly founded University of Bonn, whose sons Karl Friedrich Werner Nasse and Otto Nasse were also physicians.

Werner von Noorden's two years older brother was Carl von Noorden , a well-known German internist and diabetologist , professor in Frankfurt am Main and Vienna, and co-founder and temporarily head of the private clinic for diabetes patients in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen.

education

Werner von Noorden received his doctorate in Gießen in 1885 on a case of the bicornuate uterus with the recto-vesical ligament . Then he worked as an assistant doctor for surgery in Tübingen and Berlin and also got to know the then particularly progressive medicine of England, the country of birth of his mother Lavino.

Professional activities

In 1903 he opened a practice in Homburg at Parkstrasse 4 (today Wilhelm-Meister-Strasse). As a spa doctor he was one of the first to use the clay mud obtained in Homburg for packs. He also dealt with the "Homburg Diet" and promoted its implementation. For his treatment of King Chulalongkorn in 1907 he received a fee of 30,000 marks from Bangkok and from Berlin the award of the title Medical Councilor .

family

He married Elly Ebers (1874–1920), daughter of the citizen of Berlin, bank owner and factory owner Moritz Ebers, granddaughter of Georg Ebers (1837–1898), who was an Egyptologist and writer. Of their three children, Gerrit (* 1899), Udo (* 1900) and Ellen (* 1904), Udo died as a soldier in 1918 in the First World War.

The close circle of friends of the Werner von Noordens family included the Victorian painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912), the historian Hans Delbrück (1848–1929) and master builder Fritz Hitzig, President of the Academy of Arts.

Werner von Noorden dealt with the history of his adopted home Homburg and was chairman of the Association for History and Archeology in Homburg from 1912 to 1922. After the decline as a spa town, he left Bad Homburg in 1928 and headed various sanatoriums in Germany. Two days before the end of the Second World War, he was killed by a soldier of the Red Army on May 6, 1945 on the island of Rügen, where he had last lived with his daughter in a manor house built in 1849 in the south-west of Rügen on the Kubitzer Bodden in a rural area. His son-in-law Böttger was the then tenant of a domain of the Sankt Jürgen monastery.

literature

• A case of the bicornuate uterus with the recto-vesical ligament. Inaugural Diss. from Giessen. With a blackboard. von Noorden, Werner von; Publishing house Dr. Alexander von Edelmann Leipzig; 1885
• Memories of our sister Hilde Kubierschky: geb. from Noorden.  ⁄ Noorden, Werner von.– Franz, Munich 1922. (Hilde Kubierschky, the sister Werner von Noorden and wife of the painter Erich Kubierschky (1854–1944))
• On the question of the male climacteric and its treatment. Noorden, Werner von.– SI, Munich 1929
• Contribution to the medical and sanitary development of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Noorden, Werner von.– Munich: Taunusbote, Bad Homburg, 1934
• Christian Friedrich Nasse, a pioneer and pioneer of the German medical profession. Noorden, Werner von.– Repr. D. Edition Berlin 1936, Nendeln, Munich 1977.

Web links

• Work of Werner von Noorden
• King Chulalongkorn and his doctor Werner von Noorden Taunus-Zeitung
• Werner von Noorden's famous patient. FAZ
• Günter Debus : Jakob Debus about the Werner von Noorden family
• Günter Debus: Fritz Karl Debus , friend and schoolmate of his son Udo von Noorden, who died in 1918
• Manslaughter of Werner von Noorden in the Breesen manor on the island of Rügen by a Red Army soldier on May 6, 1945

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vita of the father Karl von Noorden
2. ↑ Master data including Elisabeth Fanny Lavino, mother of Werner von Noorden ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Carl von Noorden in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
4. ↑ The "Homburg Diet" by means of Homburg biscuit factories
5. ↑ Ancestry of Elisabeth Ebers ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.