Wilhelm Wagner (medic, 1793)

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Karl Wilhelm Ulrich Wagner (born January 21, 1793 in Braunschweig , † December 4, 1846 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and university professor .

Life

Wilhelm Wagner was born in Braunschweig in 1793 as the son of the philologist and university professor at the Braunschweig Collegium Carolinum , Karl Franz Christian Wagner . His uncle was the doctor Ernst Horn . Wagner was taught by his father and then studied medicine from 1809 at the Collegium Anatomico-Chirurgicum in his hometown. He continued his studies in 1810 at the University of Marburg , where his father had previously moved. From 1812 he studied at the University of Göttingen and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . Subsequently, he entered the Brunswick military service as a regimental doctor with the cavalry , rose to the position of brigade doctor and, after the battle of Waterloo in 1815, became the general staff doctor of the Brunswick contingent. He passed the medical state examination in Braunschweig in 1816 . In 1818 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

Activity in Berlin

Wagner went to Berlin in 1819, where he completed his habilitation in medicine and worked as a private lecturer from 1820 . In 1821/1822 he went on an eight-month study trip to Great Britain to gain experience about the state of medicine there. In 1826 he received the full professorship in state medicine , his main field of work, at the University of Berlin . State medicine was developed at the end of the 18th century at universities in German-speaking countries as a new discipline from the union of forensic medicine and the medical police , today's hygiene. In addition, Wagner was appointed criminal physician in 1828, city ​​physician in 1829 and a councilor in the medical college of the province of Brandenburg. He fought the cholera that broke out in Germany in 1831 , published important articles on its spread and was appointed to the Secret Medical Council and a member of the scientific deputation for the medical sector in 1833 for his achievements . In 1833 he founded the practical training institute for state medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin, the forerunner of today's Institute for Forensic Medicine Berlin . After the Vienna Institute founded in 1805, it was the second center for forensic medicine teaching and research in German-speaking countries. For his achievements in the development of the regulation on the procedure in infectious diseases Wagner was awarded the Red Eagle Order III. Class honored with a ribbon. In 1841 he was appointed government medical advisor at the Berlin Police Headquarters . He worked at Horn's archive for medical experience , the Berlin medical-encyclopedic dictionary, and numerous medical journals.

family

Wagner was married to Julie, nee Albrecht. The son Albrecht Wagner , born in 1827 , also became a doctor. The younger son Julius Wagner (1842-1904) became general of the infantry. Wilhelm Wagner died in Berlin in December 1846 at the age of 53.

Fonts (selection)

  • Commentatio de foeminarum in graviditate mutationibus nec non de causis, quibus fiat, ut integra eorum valetudo cum hisce mutationibus consistat . 1816.
  • Commentatio de coremorphosi sistens brevem methodorum ad pupillae artificialis conformationem hucusque adhibitarum adumbrationem novique ad iridodialysin instrumenti descriptionem . Goettingen 1818.
  • Attempt to present and criticize the Italian doctrine of the contra-stimulus . Berlin 1819.
  • De medicorum juribus atque officiis tractatus. Pars I sistens disquisitionem historicam de medicorum apud diversas gentes statu atque conditione . Berlin 1819.
  • About the use and the appropriate establishment of practical teaching institutions for physicists . 1823.
  • About the Medicinal Institutions and the Current State of Medicine in Great Britain and Ireland . Berlin 1825.
  • with Ernst Horn: How do you have to protect yourself against cholera? . Berlin 1831.
  • The spread of cholera in the Prussian state, proof of its contagiousness . Berlin 1832.
  • News about the establishment of a practical teaching institution for state medicine at the Royal Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . 1833.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingo Wirth , Andreas Schmeling : Forensic Medicine: Basic Knowledge for Investigation Practice , 3rd Edition, Kriminalistik Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7832-0021-8 , p. 402.
  2. ^ Bernhard von Langenbeck (Ed.): Archive for Clinical Surgery , Volume 12. Verlag August Hirschwald, Berlin 1871, pp. 1091f.
  3. ↑ Guido von Frobel : Militär-Wochenblatt , Volume 89, Part 2, 1904, Col. 2519.

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Karl Wilhelm Ulrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1846
Place of death Berlin