Wilhelm Rehbein

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Wilhelm Rehbein (* 1776 ; † December 30, 1825 ) was a German doctor.

Life

Wilhelm Rehbein was a doctor of the classical Weimar . From 1816 he was court medicus in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach , from 1822 Leibmedicus and from 1818 also Goethe's general practitioner . Rehbein also accompanied Goethe on his trips to the Bohemian baths from 1818. From November 1823 Johann Peter Eckermann describes his bathing trips in his conversations with Goethe and describes Rehbein's work. Rehbein was also present at Goethe's table talks. Goethe called Rehbein, a friend of his, an insightful and careful doctor . Goethe spoke to him, as he did with other doctors, about medical topics. According to tradition, Rehbein was with the dying Christiane von Goethe almost every hour . At least that was what Adolf Stahr assured him in June 1816. After his death in mid-1826, Carl Vogel became his successor. After the death of Wilhelm Ernst Christian Huschke in 1828, the treatment of Goethe was entirely in Vogel's hands. Immediately after Rehbein's death, according to a letter from Heinrich Karl Friedrich Peucer to Karl August Böttiger dated June 22, 1826, the doctor, Bergrat, city physician and regimental doctor in Weimar Friedrich Wilhelm Wahl (1778-1830) had taken over Goethe's treatment.

Rehbein received the Saxon-Weimar White Falcon Order in 1825 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goethe's Conversations Biedermann Edition , Vol. 3/1: Conversations of the Years 1817–1825, ed. by Wolfgang Herwig, Munich 1998, p. 80 f. According to an anecdote by Karl Sondershausen , Goethe "celebrated" his birthday on August 27, 1818. (The "real" birthday was one day later.) He had therefore already drunk a lot of wine and asked Rehbein to drink it on his birthday. But that was not Goethe's birthday, as Rehbein noticed. Goethe looked at his calendar and then said: "Well, look at that! I got myself drunk for free today." In another memory of the actor Eduard Genast , however, there is one (he refers directly to Rehbein!) In this context, the phrase assigned to Goethe: "Donnerwetter! I got drunk for free. Ibid. p. 82. But Genast also wrote:" The latter could only be considered a humorous phrase for everyone who knew him, because Goethe got drunk never."
  2. ^ Fritz Bergemann (ed.): Eckermann, Conversations with Goethe in the last years of his life (= Insel Taschenbuch. Volume 500). 11th edition. Berlin 2015, u. a. P. 66 f. and p. 70 f.
  3. ↑ Effi Biedrzynski : Goethe's Weimar. The lexicon of people and scenes. Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-7608-1064-0 , p. 156.
  4. ^ Peter Uhrbach: Goethe's Fraulein in Böhmen: Ulrike von Levetzow. Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2009, ISBN 978-3-86729-050-0 , p. 48 f., P. 59 f. and p. 165 f.
  5. ↑ Goethe's Conversations Biedermann Edition , Vol. 2: Conversations of the Years 1805–1817, ed. by Wolfgang Herwig, Munich 1998, p. 1143.
  6. ↑ Encyclopedia Medical History , Vol. 1: AG, ed. by Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New-York 2007, p. 499.
  7. ↑ Goethe's Conversations Biedermann Edition , Vol. 3/2: Conversations of the Years 1825–1821, ed. by Wolfgang Herwig, Munich 1998, p. 52.
  8. ↑ Goethe's Conversations Biedermann Edition , Vol. 3/1: Conversations of the Years 1817–1825, ed. by Wolfgang Herwig, Munich 1998, p. 821.

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SURNAME Rehbein, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1776
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1825