Wilhelm Camerer

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Family grave at the Fangelsbach cemetery in Stuttgart

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Camerer (born October 17, 1842 in Stuttgart , † March 25, 1910 in Urach ) was a German doctor and physiologist who distinguished himself in the emerging pediatrics.

His father, the doctor Johann Wilhelm Camerer (1806–1862) was the founder of Paulinenhilfe in 1845 and since 1857 head of the Katharinen Hospital in Stuttgart . One grandfather was Johann Wilhelm Camerer ; Rudolf and Alexander Camerarius from Tübingen were among his ancestors . Wilhelm Camerer had five children with his wife Hedwig, the daughter of Bernhard Gugler .

After studying mathematics, physics and chemistry at the Polytechnic in Stuttgart for two semesters, he studied medicine in Tübingen, Vienna and Würzburg from 1861. In 1865 he passed the medical exam in Tübingen. A long-term collaboration in the field of child physiology developed with Karl von Vierordt .

After participating in the 1866 campaign, he worked as a general practitioner in Crailsheim, and later in Gerstetten. After taking part in the war of 1870/71 as senior physician, he moved to Langenau near Ulm, from where he came to Riedlingen as senior medical officer and to Urach in 1883.

His experimental investigations in the field of sensory physiology brought him in contact with Gustav Theodor Fechner in Leipzig. He was mainly concerned with the treatment of metabolic diseases and the physiology of the child. His investigations form the basis of today's natural and artificial infant nutrition.

Camerer died in Urach in 1910. He found his final resting place in the family grave at the Fangelsbach cemetery in Stuttgart.

Publications (selection)

  • Experiments on the temporal course of the movement of will ; 1866 (diss.)
  • The metabolism of the child from birth to the end of growth ; 1894
  • with Ludwig Wilhelm Otto Camerer: History of the Tübingen Camerer family from 1503–1903 ; Stuttgart, 1903

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Formative personalities - chief physicians since 1845. Dr. Johann Wilhelm Camerer. Website of the Orthopäidschen Klinik Paulinenhilfe. Retrieved March 25, 2016.
  2. ↑ Camerarius, Rudolph Jakob. deutsche-biographie.de. Retrieved March 25, 2016.
  3. ^ Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1995, p. 216 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Camerer, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Camerer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1910
Place of death Urach