Wilhelm Thomé (physician)

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Wilhelm Thomé (born December 22, 1809 in Oberdollendorf near Bonn ; † February 10, 1846 in Cologne ) was a German ophthalmologist , obstetrician and clinic director. In the middle of the 19th century he was one of the most progressive and well-known personalities in the city of Cologne.

Life

Born in 1809 in Oberollendorf near Bonn as the son of the merchant and winemaker Johann Wilhelm Thomé and his wife AM geb. Kemp, Wilhelm Thomé attended the Royal Prussian High School in Bonn from 1820 and the Bonn University from 1828 . There he became a member of the Corps Rhenania in 1831 . He then went to Berlin for six months at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , in order to finally write his dissertation on August 9, 1834 in Bonn under the title De Corneae Transplantatione . Provided with a certificate of departure from Bonn University dated July 6 of the same year, he was granted his license to practice medicine and surgeon on July 11, 1835 - again in Berlin - and received his certificate that he was sworn in at about the same time. Also in 1835, Thomé was granted his license to practice as an obstetrician on October 3.

He then went on a two-year study trip to Vienna, Venice, Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples, Switzerland and Paris. Thomé's passport dated November 17, 1835, including 30 visas, certified his trip to Rome in 1836.

In 1838 Thomé settled in Cologne and established an ophthalmological institute there, which he himself managed successfully.

In 1839 he married the daughter of a businessman, Katharina Rennen (1813-1894) from Cologne, and the future botanist Otto Wilhelm Thomé was born in Cologne in 1840 as the first of four sons .

Grave of the Thomé family

In 1842 and 1843 was Wilhelm Thomé during the gymnastic movement, one of the founders of the first gymnastics club of the Rhine province , the Cologne Turnvereins of 1843, under the later name Cologne Turnerschaft of 1843 the oldest gymnastics and sports club in North Rhine-Westphalia . In addition, Wilhelm Thomé was part of a small circle of well-known Cologne personalities from the middle and higher social classes, politically progressive merchants, lawyers and writers, men like Georg Jung , Dagobert Oppenheim , Gustav Mevissen , Carl Stucke, Gustav Mallinckrodt or Gerhard Josef Compes . They all also supported the Rheinische Zeitung project in 1842 , subscribed to shares in establishing the newspaper project or sat on the paper's supervisory board .

Wilhelm Thomé died of a stroke in 1846 at the age of only 36. The family grave is located in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 59).

Fonts

  • De Corneae Transplantatione , Inaugural dissertation from August 9, 1834 at the University of Bonn

Archival material

Archives by and about Wilhelm Thomé and his family can be found, for example

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Fritz-Dieter Söhn: De Corneae Transplantatione. Dissertatio Inauguralis , short vita on the sale offer for 740 euros of Thomé's dissertation from 1834 in the first edition including 3 hand-colored lithographed plates with 8 illustrations via the Central Directory of Antiquarian Books platform , last accessed on August 5, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Official Journal of the Royal Government of Cologne , 20th year, Cologne: M. DuMont-Schauberg, 1835, p. 364; Digitized via Google books
  3. ^ A b Gisela Mettele : Bourgeoisie in Cologne 1775-1870. Community spirit and free association (= city ​​and bourgeoisie , vol. 10), Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter - De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 1998 [Reprint 2014], ISBN 978-3-486-83127-6 and ISBN 978-3-486- 83126-9 and ISBN 3-486-83126-7 , p. 206; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1910, 26 , 105
  5. ^ Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living authors , Vol. 33: Addendum. Contains: corrections, additions, the more recent literature and the medical writers who died since 1830. Th - Z. In addition to the anonymous and periodical and collected publications A - Z , Altona; in commission: Royal Deaf-Mute Institute in Schleswig; Friedrich Fleischer in Leipzig; Carl Theodor Schlueter (Carl Aue's successor) in Altona and CA Reitzel in Copenhagen, 1845, p. 21; Digitized via Google books
  6. ↑ a b c Compare the information from the Archive in North Rhine-Westphalia portal
  7. ↑ a b Wilhelm v. Waldbrühl : Dr. Wilhelm Thomé. In: Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen , Vol. 24 (1848), pp. 121–125; Digitized via Google books
  8. ↑ Martin Schwarzbach (Ed.): Natural sciences and natural scientists in Cologne between the old and the new university (1798-1919) (= studies on the history of the University of Cologne , vol. 2), Cologne; Vienna: Böhlau-Verlag GmbH, 1985, ISBN 978-3-412-00985-4 and ISBN 3-412-00985-7 , p. 143; Preview over google books
  9. ↑ Compare the Yearbook of the Cologne historical association eV , Ed .: Kölnischer Historical Society, Cologne: SH Verlag, 1992, pp 143, 164f. u.ö .; Preview over google books
  10. ↑ Marcel Seyppel : The democratic society in Cologne 1848/49. Urban society and the emergence of parties during the bourgeois revolution (= Cologne writings on history and culture , vol. 15), also dissertation at the University of Cologne, Cologne: Janus-Verlags-Gesellschaft, 1991, ISBN 978-3-922977-35-3 and ISBN 3-922977-35-9 , p. 170 and others; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Thomé, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist, obstetrician and clinic director
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberdollendorf near Bonn
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1846
Place of death Cologne