Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Suckow

Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Suckow also: Succow (born December 29, 1770 in Jena ; † July 30, 1848 ibid.) Was a German physician. He was the brother of the natural scientist Georg Adolf Suckow and the uncle of the doctor and natural scientist Friedrich Wilhelm Suckow .

Life

Wilhelm Karl Friedrich was the son of the Weimar secret chamber council and professor of physics, as well as camera science and mathematics Lorenz Johann Daniel Suckow and his wife Maria Christina Sophia Pfündel († 1777). He did not attend school and was trained by private teachers, including Karl Gotthold Lenz , Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wachler and Johann Gottfried Hasse (* 1759 in Weimar; † April 12, 1806 in Königsberg (Prussia)). At Easter 1787 he moved to the University of Jena , where he initially studied history at the philosophical faculty with Johann Gottfried Eichhorn , the German antiquities with Johann Gottfried Müller (born November 4, 1729 in Buttstedt; † February 11, 1792 in Jena), the Roman and Greek classics with Christian Gottfried Schütz and Carl Christian Erhard , philosophy with Justus Christian Hennings , Johann August Heinrich Ulrich and Carl Leonhard Reinhold , physics and mathematics with his father and natural history, botany and chemistry with August Batsch .

He then devoted himself to the study of medicine, including the remarks by Justus Christian Loder , Ernst Anton Nicolai , Christian Gottfried Gruner , Johann Christian Stark the Elder and Friedrich Ferdinand Bretschneider (born October 20, 1758 in Jena; † October 27, 1802 in Jena) pursued. He continued his studies on October 23, 1792 at the University of Wittenberg , where he attended the lectures Georg Rudolf Böhmer , Johann Jacob Ebert , Christian August Langguth and Christian Friedrich Nürnberger . On January 24th, 1793, when he returned to Jena, he acquired the degree of master's degree in philosophy and then worked as a general practitioner in Jena. On July 30, 1795 he defended the inaugural dissertation exhibens toxicologiae theoreticae delineationem and received his doctorate in medicine. In the same year he completed his habilitation at the Salana, in 1801 he was appointed associate professor at the medical faculty and Suckow was associated with it as sub-director of the medical surgical hospital in Jena.

In 1805 he took a position as personal physician of the Count von Hochberg at the Silesian castle Fürstenstein . In 1808 he returned to Jena and in 1811 became co-director of the clinical institute and the insane asylum in Jena. In 1816 he was given a full professorship in medicine, with his lectures dealing with pathology, semiorics, pharmacology, toxicology, general and special therapy. In 1830 he was appointed secret councilor of Saxony-Weimar, rose to full professorial position in the medical faculty in 1838 and also took part in the university's organizational tasks. He was dean of the medical faculty several times and in the winter semester of 1825 and in the summer semester of 1834 rector of the alma mater . On January 25, 1843, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy in Jena, on November 7, 1843, he became a knight of the order of the White Falcon and he was the bearer of the ducal Saxony-Ernestine house order . He was also a member of the mineralogical society in Jena, member of the natural research society in Jena and Brockhausen.

Suckow married in 1798 with Johanna Magdalena Luisa Katharina (Emilia) Amelung (* 1778), the daughter of the pastor in Jugenheim, Gersfeld in the Rhön and Pfungstadt Hieronymus Gotthilf Amelung (* October 9, 1742 in Glaucha; † May 6, 1800 in Pfungstadt ) and Helena Juliana Thon (* * July 13, 1747 in Ostheim von der Rhön; † September 14, 1822 in Bonn). There are children from the marriage. Of these, the mineralogist, geologist and chemist Gustav Suckow (* May 7, 1803 in Jena; † August 17, 1867 ibid.) And the physician Heinrich Emil Suckow (* February 5, 1806 in Freiburg in Silesia , † after 1840) are known .

Works (selection)

• Diss. Inaug. exhibens Toxicologiae theoreticae delineationem. Part. I. Jena 1795 ( online )
• Diss. Pro facultate docendi exh. Toxicologiae theoreticae delineationem. Part. II. Jena 1795 (Resp. Heinrich Christian Friedrich Krauel, online )
• Pharmacopoeia for clinical institutes and self-dispensing doctors. Jena 1805 (1st vol.), Jena 1810 (2nd vol.), 2nd vol.
• Progr. Historia Phthiseos pulmonalis purulentae in foemina gravida ortae et post patrum sponte sanatae. Jena 1822 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Johann Eduard Sommer (born April 2, 1801 in Coburg) and Johann Baptist Schmitt (born April 24, 1796 Fulda), online )
• Progr. Animadversinum in tracheitidem infantum. Particula I. Jena 1823 (Dean's program for doctoral studies Johann Krämer and Julius Göpel)
• Progr. Animadversinum in tracheitidem infantum Particula II. Jena 1823 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Karl August Bona (* May 20, 1791 in Sondershausen) and Gotthelf Adolph Schumann (* May 16, 1798 in Kospoda), online )
• Progr. Animadversinum in tracheitidem infantum Particula III. Jena 1823
• Progr. Animadversinum in tracheitidem infantum Particula IV. Jena 1823
• Progr. Animadversinum in tracheitidem infantum Particula V. Jena 1824 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Franz Ferdinand Syrbius (born August 5, 1799 in Berg near Frankenhausen) and Wilhelm Heinrich Schön)
• Progr. Animadversinum in tracheitidem infantum Particula VI. Jena 1825 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Franz Custav Judersleben (born June 2, 1796 in Auerbach), online )
• Progr. Animadversinum in tracheitidem infantum Particula VII. Jena 1827 (Dean's program for doctorate Christian Friedrich Engelhardt (born October 18, 1804 in Sonneberg), online )
• Progr. Animadversinum in tracheitidem infantum Particula IX. Jena 1828 (Deanery program for doctorate Christian August Kaphan (* 1803 in Osterfeld), online )
• Progr. Animadversinum in tracheitidem infantum Particula X. Jena 1829 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Ernst Julius Gödike and Theodor Wilhelm Grimm)
• Progr. Idiosomnambulismi Exemplum Exhibetur Particula I. Jena 1829 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Friedrich Ferdinand Gley (* 1804 in Hamburg), online )
• Progr. Idiosomnambulismi Exemplum Exhibetur Particula II. Jena 1829 (Dean's program for doctorates August Graef, Carl Friedrich Neuberth and Karl Gale Roederer)
• De Salibus, qui in neutralibus habentur, distributione in ordines pharmacologicos. Jena 1830
• Annual report along with practical remarks on the diseases treated in the Grand Ducal Country Hospital and the outpatient clinic in Jena in 1829. Jena 1831

literature

• Christian Gottfried Gruner: Jo. Steph. Bernardi reliquiae Medico-Criticae. Jena 1795 (Dean's program for the doctorate of Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Suckow, online )
• Georg Gottlieb Güldenapfel : Literary Museum for the Grand Ducal. herzogl. Saxon country. JG Schreiber and Comp., Jena, 1816, p. 145 ( online )
• Heinrich Carl Abraham Eichstädt : Annales Academiae Ienensis. Croecker, Jena, 1823, p. 29 ( online )
• Heinrich Döring : Jena University Almanac 1845. Jena, 1845, p. 95 ( online )
• Johannes Günther: Life sketches of the professors at the University of Jena from 1558 to 1858. Friedrich Maucke, Jena, 1858, p. 135 ( online )
• New necrology of the Germans. Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar, 1850, vol. 26, 1848, part 1, page 528 ( online )
• Obituary. In: New Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung. 7th year, August 15, 1848 ( online )
• August Hirsch . Ernst Julius Gurlt : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. (BLÄ) Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna & Leipzig, 1887, vol. 5, p. 577 ( online )
• Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia. (DBE) KG Saur, Munich, 2008, 2nd edition ISBN 978-3-598-25039-2 , Vol. 9, p. 826
• Friedrich Jännicke:  Suckow . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 105 f.

Web link

• Works by and about Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Suckow  in the German Digital Library