Wilhelm Roser

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Wilhelm Roser on a carte de visite , photograph by Friedrich Brandseph around 1862, albumen paper

Wilhelm Ferdinand Roser (born March 26, 1817 in Stuttgart , Kingdom of Württemberg , † December 16, 1888 in Marburg , Kingdom of Prussia ) was a German physician , surgeon and ophthalmologist .

family

Wilhelm Roser is the son of the Councilor of State Karl von Roser and his wife Luise geb. Vischer (born July 23, 1796 in Calw , † August 1, 1841 in Stuttgart ) a sister of Emilie Vischer, the wife of Ludwig Uhland . Both women are daughters of the Calw merchant Johann Martin Vischer , who at the end of the 18th century had the court architect Reinhard Ferdinand Heinrich Fischer built a splendid city palace in the classical style in Calw .

Wilhelm Roser grew up with three brothers and two sisters. One of the well-known descendants of Wilhelm Roser is the puppeteer Albrecht Roser .

Wilhelm Roser was married three times. In his first marriage from February 9, 1847 to January 4, 1853 with Fanny Weber (born June 30, 1827 in Tübingen; † January 4, 1853 in Marburg), daughter of the court president von Weber in Tübingen, in his second marriage from 24 November 1855 to February 10, 1870 with Charlotte Haug (born November 21, 1833 in Tübingen; † February 10, 1870 in Marburg), the eldest daughter of the Tübingen historian Carl Friedrich Haug , and in III. Married from October 10, 1871 to December 16, 1888 with Amalie Haug (born September 10, 1848 in Tübingen, † June 21, 1890 in Marburg), the second youngest daughter of the Tübingen historian Carl Friedrich Haug.

Wilhelm Roser has 13 children from his three marriages. His youngest daughter was born when Roser was 65 years old. Wilhelm Roser is related by marriage to Carl Friedrich Haug junior , Karl von Riecke and Oskar von Bülow . Based on the lifelong genealogical research of his father-in-law Carl Friedrich Haug, Karl von Riecke produced a text on the history of the Württemberg family and state.

Career

In 1834 Wilhelm Roser, together with his close friends Karl Reinhold August Wunderlich and Wilhelm Griesinger , began studying medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1839 Roser was his Inaugural Dissertation : The Humoralätiologie , from the Medical High School of the University of Tuebingen MD PhD .

In the following years Wilhelm Roser undertook study trips to Würzburg , Vienna , Paris and Halle an der Saale . In Vienna, Roser met Karl von Rokitansky and Josef von Škoda . The scientifically fruitful collaboration with his colleague Auguste Nélaton began in Paris . Returned to Württemberg in 1841 , Wilhelm Roser completed his habilitation at the Eberhard Karls University in surgery and then taught at the medical faculty there as a private lecturer .

Wilhelm Roser's grave in the main cemetery in Marburg (2017)
Portrait bust of Wilhelm Roser in Marburg, created by Max Lange

From 1846 to 1850 Roser was a senior medical officer in Reutlingen. There he received a call to the Philipps University in Marburg , to the chair for surgery in the succession of his colleague Eduard Zeis . Roser accepted the call to the University of Marburg and accompanied the chair until his retirement . He established ophthalmology in Marburg . In 1869 Roser was appointed a secret medical councilor. Wilhelm Roser lived with his family in Marburg until his death in 1888.

Wilhelm Roser founded the archive for physiological medicine with Karl Wunderlich and Wilhelm Griesinger in 1841 .

Honors

Family pictures

Works

  • Manual of anatomical surgery . Tübingen 1844; 8th ed., 1884; French transl., Paris, 1870; engl. Transl., London 1873.
  • General surgery . Tübingen 1845.
  • Surgical-anatomical vademecum . Tübingen 1847; 9th edition, 1892.
  • About the so-called specificity of ophthalmias . Archives for Physiological Medicine, 1847, p 101.
  • The doctrine of corneal staphyloma . Marburg 1851.

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Roser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5669, p. 443 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Karl Klüpfel:  Haug, Karl Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 52-54.
  3. all data on the genealogy are given according to the records from the family archive of the descendants of the government councilor Carl Friedrich Feuerlein.
  4. Altwirtembergisches from family papers to the best of the Luther Foundation of an educational institution for pastors' sons , written and edited by Karl Viktor von Ricke [1]