Wilhelm Anton Ficker

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Memorial at the State Hospital in Paderborn 2012

Wilhelm Anton Ficker (born October 28, 1768 in Paderborn ; † March 8, 1824 there ) was a German doctor.

Life

Wilhelm Anton Ficker was the youngest son of Ferdinand Wilhelm Ficker († 1768), pulpit clerk and secretary to the prince-bishop's court chamber and his wife Anna Katharina Orbans († 1784). He attended the Gymnasium Paderborn and the Gymnasium Osnabrück and then began studying medicine at the University of Münster and continued this at the University of Göttingen . In Göttingen in 1791 he received a prize sponsored by the medical faculty for his treatise De temperamentis quatenus ex fabrica corporis et structura pendentI . In 1792 he received the title of Dr. for his dissertation De tracheotomia et oesophagotomia. med. at the medical faculty of the University of Erfurt .

In order to prepare for his future role as chief surgeon and head of surgery , he made several trips to Vienna , Austria , and Würzburg after his studies from 1792 to 1794 and served as a field doctor in various Prussian field hospitals . In May 1794 he returned to Paderborn and took over the post of chief surgeon and obstetrician determined by his then sovereign, Prince-Bishop Franz Egon von Fürstenberg , for which he received the title of professor of surgery in 1796 with an associated salary and was promoted to midwifery teacher.

With voluntary financial support from the estates and the population, he was able to build and operate a hospital for the inept in 1797 , which was continuously expanded through his efforts and in 1824 was given a specific property by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . This facility, which treated 4,659 patients at the time and trained various surgeons, was director and doctor free of charge until his death; as a member of the city council, he campaigned for poor relief in Paderborn.

He also campaigned for the spread of the smallpox vaccination and instructed the vaccinators on this. In addition, there was the training and instruction of midwives, which he also trained until his death.

From 1809 he worked as a well doctor in Driburg .

Because he did not want to leave the works he had brought to life, he turned down various recruits, for example he was offered the position of the first doctor in the hospital in Kassel. In 1810 he refused the appointment as professor of surgery and the surgical clinic in Halle and in 1816 he could have become a personal physician in Detmold or a government and medical councilor in Minden .

Wilhelm Anton Ficker was married and had six children. His son, Ludwig Wilhelm Ficker, continued his work, but died on October 21, 1828. His grandson (son of Ludwig Wilhelm Ficker) was the historian Julius von Ficker .

Writing

In 1792 he published his inaugural dissertation Tracheotomie und Laryngotomie , which was published in Latin and which was also published in German in 1793.

In Würzburg, during his stay after his studies, he worked for the Würzburg scholarly advertisements and for the Upper German literary newspaper . In 1796 he published the first class for midwives , which was issued as a special edition for the Archbishopric of Salzburg , Hochstift Paderborn and the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau and was later published three times. Also in that year he published his first volume, Contributions to Medicinal Science, Wound Medicine and the Art of Childbirth , which was followed by the second volume in 1802. In 1804 he published his first volume Essays and Observations, each time focusing on the theory of excitation ; In 1806 he published the second volume.

He continued to work for the Medizinisch-Chirurgische Zeitung and the Hallische Literaturzeitung, and contributed many articles to the journals of Justus Christian Loder , Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland , Christian Friedrich Harleß , Karl von Graefe , Johann Bartholomäus von Siebold's collection of rare and exquisite surgical observations and experiences German doctors and surgeons , for the medical annals and for Johann Heinrich Fenner von Fenneberg's pocket book for health wells and baths for use by doctors and non-doctors .

He published his experience as a well doctor in Driburg in two annual reports in the Driburger Taschenbuch in 1811 and in the Driburger Taschenbuch in 1816 , which were published in Paderborn.

Memberships

  • In 1806 he became a corresponding member of the Medical and Surgical Josephine Academy in Vienna.
  • In 1821 the Niederrheinische Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde (Niederrheinische Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde) and the pharmacists' association in northern Germany made him a member.

Honors, awards and prizes

  • In 1803 he was given the character of a princely Lippe court counselor from Princess Pauline for his services to the Princely House .
  • In 1806, Wilhelm Anton Ficker received an encouragement award from the Josephine Medical and Surgical Academy in Vienna for his essay on hip joint disease, which was later followed by a medal. The treatise dealt with the question of what the evil actually consists of, which is known as the so-called voluntary limping of children; on the other hand whether a cure is taking place and by what means it can be achieved? He took part in this competition together with his friend, the Bremen doctor Johann Abraham Albers , who sent in his own work and received an award for it. Through these writings, the doctors' attention was drawn to this disease and made known for the benefit of many sick people in Germany.
  • A monument was erected in his honor in 1831 at the new location in the former Capuchin Monastery on the Kisau, which later became the State Hospital.

Fonts (selection)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church book of the Marktkirch parish of Paderborn matricula-online
  2. ^ Paul Michels: Paderborn inscriptions, coats of arms and house brands. Paderborn 1957, p. 127f.
  3. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 3, Einstein - Görner . S. 306. Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-094655-0 ( google.de [accessed on June 18, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Ficker, Wilhelm Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ficker, WA; Ficker, Wilhelm A .; Ficker, Guilielmus Antonius; Fiker, Wilhelm Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1824
Place of death Paderborn