Wilhelm Balser

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Wilhelm Balser (1840)

Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Balser (born April 1, 1780 in Darmstadt , † January 5, 1846 in Gießen ) was a German medic .

Life

Balser studied medicine in Gießen, Jena and Vienna from 1797. In Vienna he was trained in ophthalmology with Georg Joseph Beer and Schmid. In 1801 he received his doctorate from the University of Giessen . After working as a general practitioner in Darmstadt, he became a full professor in Gießen in 1804. Balser was later appointed to the Grand Ducal Hessian Secret Medical Councilor. Balser was accepted into the Regensburg Freemason Lodge Carl to the three keys in 1802 .

In the first two electoral terms (1820-1824) Wilhelm Balser was a member of the second chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . In the state estates he represented the constituency of the city of Gießen .

Wilhelm Balser was the son of Hofmedicus, Hofrat and Landphysicus Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Balser (1732-1804) and his wife Maria Juliane nee Wissmann. His brother Friedrich August Balser (1771-1836) was senior war councilor in Darmstadt. Wilhelm Balser married Sophie Dorothee Juliane, born in Gießen, on March 22, 1804 (born April 24, 1784 in Darmstadt; † August 28, 1831 in Gießen). Wilhelm Balser was the grandfather of the ophthalmologist Wilhelm Hess (1831–1905) and great-grandfather of the ophthalmologist Carl von Hess (1863–1923).

In his memory, Emilie Wilhelmine Countess von Görlitz donated the Balseric Foundation in Gießen. Balser was appointed to the Secret Medical Council on July 9, 1830 , and in June 1832, Director of the Academic Clinic on Seltersberg, was awarded the Commander's Cross, 2nd class, of the Ludewig Order .

literature

  • Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Medicinisches Writer-Lexicon of the now living physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists, and naturalists of all educated peoples. Volume 1: A - Ba. Self-published by the author, Copenhagen 1830, online .
  • New necrology of the Germans. Vol. 24, Theil 1, 1846, ZDB -ID 516094-7 , p. 23 .
  • August Rothmund:  Balser, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 24.
  • Christoph Handrack: Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Balser. (1780-1846). Teacher and promoter of medicine in Giessen (= work on the history of medicine in Giessen. Vol. 2). Schmitz, Gießen 1979, ISBN 3-87711-007-X (At the same time: Gießen, University, Medical Faculty, Dissertation, 1979).
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 58.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 136.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 60.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the biography of the father see Balser, Wilhelm Theodor Friedrich Ludwig in the Hessische Biographie
  2. ↑ For the biography of the brother see Balser, Friedrich August in der Hessische Biographie


personal data
SURNAME Balser, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balser, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1846
Place of death to water