Wilhelm Stricker (publicist)

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Wilhelm Friedrich Carl Stricker (born June 7, 1816 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 4, 1891 there ) was a German doctor , historian and publicist .

Life

Wilhelm Stricker was born in Frankfurt in 1815 as the son of a businessman. He attended high school in Frankfurt and Kreuznach and studied from 1835 in Dresden at the Collegium medico-chirurgicum . In 1839 he finished his studies in Berlin , in the meantime he had also studied in Göttingen . After graduating, he went on study trips to Berlin, Paris and Italy . In 1841 he settled in Dresden and worked there as a doctor, especially concerned with ophthalmology . But since he lacked practice, he devoted himself more to literary work. During this time he wrote articles for magazines, for example " about the German-speaking area " or " about emigration and colonization ". In 1845 Stricker published a travel guide for doctors and naturalists.

In 1844 he settled in Frankfurt as a doctor. In 1845 he founded the Frankfurt ophthalmic institute there and worked in the Senckenberg library. From 1846 he brought out the magazine "Germania, knowledge of the German element in all countries of the world", the magazine was discontinued shortly afterwards. In 1847 he published a first book that dealt with the history of the natural sciences in Frankfurt. After the European revolutions in 1848 , Stricker considered emigrating and published the magazine “German Emigrants” on this subject.

Stricker worked on the Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of All Times and Nations, published by August Hirsch . In a Berlin lecture, Julius Pagel highlights Stricker's book “Contributions to the medical history of culture. Foreign and personal collected and published by Wilhelm FC Stricker. ” And writes that with this“ ... little-known and noticed text, Stricker became the father of the term “medical cultural history” and thus also of the matter itself. "

From 1854, after the death of Christian Ernst Neeff , Stricker was the second librarian in today's Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library , and first from 1863. He kept this position until his death on March 4, 1891, when he fell victim to a stroke . His son was the Wiesbaden doctor August Stricker .

His scientific work was mainly articles in various journals. But he also wrote historical works on the history of Frankfurt. The historian Rudolf Jung estimated Stricker's historical work to be easy to overtake.

Grave in the Frankfurt main cemetery

His grave monument on the Frankfurt main cemetery is an obelisk made of syenite to rustiziertem base. It is a listed building and is designated as an honorary grave .

Fonts (selection)

  • Modern history of Frankfurt am Main 1806–1866 , Auffahrt, Frankfurt am Main, 1874 ( digitized on Archiv.org)
  • History of medicine and related sciences in the city of Frankfurt am Main , Keßler, Frankfurt am Main, 1847 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library)
  • Contributions to medical cultural history , 1865, Auffahrt, Frankfurt am Main, 1865 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library)
  • The Amazons in legend and history . CG Lüderitz, Berlin 1868, Volume 61 ( digitized on Archiv.org)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Stricker  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Hirsch (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. in six volumes. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna, Leipzig 1884 to 1888.
  2. ^ Contributions to medical cultural history: foreign and own collected and edited by Wilhelm FC Stricker . Franz Benjamin Auffahrt, Frankfurt am Main, 1865. 164 pages
personal data
SURNAME Stricker, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stricker, Wilhelm Friedrich Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1891
Place of death Frankfurt am Main