Wilhelm Valentiner (medic)

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Wilhelm Valentiner (born February 9, 1830 in Neustadt in Holstein , † February 2, 1893 in Wiesbaden ) was a German spa doctor and university professor.

Life

Wilhelm Valentiner came from a family originally from Flensburg , which produced numerous Schleswig-Holstein pastors, doctors and lawyers in the 18th and 19th centuries. He was a son of the lawyer of the same name Wilhelm Valentiner († 1864) and his wife Charlotte born. Sagittarius. Friedrich Peter Valentiner and Georg Theodor Valentiner were his father's brothers. He attended school in Neustadt; from 1846 to 1848 he was in Altona . After he began studying chemistry , he volunteered in the Schleswig-Holstein Army in the First Schleswig-Holstein War and was wounded on August 8, 1850. Until 1851 he was in hospitals in Rendsburg and Kiel .

After his recovery he studied human medicine at the University of Göttingen from autumn 1851 ; In 1853 he moved to the University of Breslau , where he in 1855 with a study on the prevalence and importance of cholesterol in the animal organism to Dr. med. et chir. received his doctorate. He was particularly dedicated to medicinal chemistry; Among other things, he researched the effect of alcohol consumption on the tissues of the body as an assistant to Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs . In 1859 he went to the University of Berlin with Frerichs ; In 1860 he qualified as a private lecturer specializing in balneology and balneotherapy .

His main area of ​​activity was as a well doctor in Upper Salzbrunn in Silesia (today Szczawno-Zdrój ). During the winter of the 1870s, he had a practice in Rome at Via Sistina 46 next to Casa Buti . Gerhart Hauptmann , who was born in Ober Salzbrunn, characterized him as a "type of bon vivant " who was already "lost" in his time: "He traveled around the world as a ship's doctor in winter and was very popular with women."

Awards

  • Title Secret Medical Council

Fonts

  • De cholestearini organismi animalis praesentia atque dignitate. Wroclaw 1855.
  • Chemical diagnosis in diseases. For doctors. Berlin 1860 (2nd often changed edition with 33 imprinted woodcuts, Berlin 1863).
  • The Upper Salzbrunn spa resort in Silesia, described for spa guests. Berlin 1865, 2nd edition 1877.
  • Studies on the pathology and pathological statistics of diseases of the respiratory organs. Berlin 1867.
  • The cure of chronic lung diseases in Ober-Salzbrunn in Silesia: A contribution to ... health theory. Grass, Barth et al. Comp., Breslau 1869.
  • (Contributor in): Manual of general and special balneotherapy. Berlin 1873.
  • The Kronenquelle zu Ober-Salzbrunn and its scientific representation: Reclame or study? An open letter to Dr. Gscheidlen . Kreidel, Wiesbaden 1884.

literature

  • Eduard Alberti (ed.): Lexicon of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866. 2. Dept. MZ, Academic Bookstore, Kiel 1868 ( digitized version ), No. 2251
  • Obituary, in: Leopoldina 29 (1893), p. 58
  • Valentiner, Wilhelm , in: Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin and Vienna: Urban & Schwarzenberg 1901, Sp. 1751

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 Volume 2, Kiel 1868, p. 494 ff., Lists 15 family members under nos. 2238 to 2252.
  2. ^ German clinic: Newspaper for observations from German clinics. 1872, p. 340 .
  3. ↑ Gerhart Hauptmann: Autobiographical . Propylaea 1962, p. 494.
personal data
SURNAME Valentiner, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German spa doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt in Holstein
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1893
Place of death Wiesbaden