Wilhelm von Bippen (physician)

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In memory of Dr. med. von Bippen † 1865

Wilhelm von Bippen (born April 8, 1808 in Lübeck ; † March 29, 1865 ibid) was a general practitioner, author and, as a politician, a member of the Lübeck citizenship .

Bippen's father came from Livonia and worked in Lübeck first as a merchant, later as postmaster and city post director. Wilhelm von Bippen visited the Katharineum in Lübeck and graduated from Michaelis in 1827 with the Abitur. His fellow high school graduates included Carl Friedrich Wehrmann and Nikolaus (von) Stieglitz (1807–1833), Ludwig Stieglitz's eldest son . He studied human medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg , Halle and Berlin . In Halle he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In 1833 he opened a practice in Lübeck. In 1841 he was defeated in his application for the position of city midwifery teacher against William Henry Newman-Sherwood . Due to his medical work, however, he did not see himself as busy and turned on the one hand to politics. He became a member of the Lübeck citizenship and was its spokesman for a time . The Lübeck constitutional reform of 1848, in which he played a key role, fell during his political activity. In addition, he was active in the society for the promotion of charitable activities and was its director.

As an author he published Gotthelf Weiter's stage plays in two volumes in 1857 under a pseudonym . In 1852 he honored his father-in-law with Georg Arnold Heise . Messages from his life. In the Eutin Sketches in 1859, Bippen attempted to classify the Enlightenment Eutin Circle in the history of literature . His poems were published in 1866 after his death under the title In memory of Wilhelm v. Bippen in Weimar. He died working on a book about the philosopher Charles de Villers . His son was the legal historian Wilhelm von Bippen .

Works

  • Nonnulla de hermaphroditis et memorabilis hominis gynandri historia atque descriptio: Dissertatio Pathologico-Anatomica; Accedunt tabulae lithographicae III. Halis: Baentsch 1831 (diss.)
  • About contemporary political parties. Lübeck: Rohden'sche Buchhandlung 1848
  • Georg Arnold Heise: messages from his life. Halle: Schwetschke 1852
  • Stage plays. Lübeck: Dittmer 1857
  • Eutin sketches: on the cultural and literary history of the eighteenth century. Weimar: Böhlau 1859 ( digitized version )
  • (posthumously) In memory of Wilhelm von Bippen: one and twenty poems from his estate. Weimar: Böhlau 1866

literature

  • Ernst Deecke : Hundred Lübsche folk rhymes: Dr. med. C. Pabst and Dr. med. W. von Bippen amicably consecrated on June 8, 1858. Lübeck: Rahtgens 1858
  • Wilhelm Mantels :  Bippen, Wilhelm von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 653 f.
  • Wilhelm Deecke : Wilhelm von Bippen: a picture of life. Weimar: Böhlau 1867 ( digitized version )
  • Christine Loytved: Midwives and their teachers: turning points in training and office Lübeck midwives ( 1730-1850 ). Osnabrück: Rasch 2002 (Women's Health; Vol. 2), zugl .: Osnabrück, Univ., Diss., 2001 ISBN 3-935326-76-9 , pp. 262f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-305545 , no. 228
personal data
SURNAME Bippen, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lübeck doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1865
Place of death Lübeck