William Baring (medic)

Ernst Georg William Baring (born August 6, 1830 in Burgdorf , † July 2, 1901 in Celle ) was a German medic .

family

Baring comes from the Hanoverian line of the Baring family . He was the first child of the theologian and pastor Karl Baring (1803–1868) and Emilie geb. Schneider (1807–1863), daughter of the captain of the staff a. D. and chief boniteurs for the tax district Osnabrück Johann Georg Christian Schneider (1774-1854). He had seven siblings, including the writer Natalie Eleonore Helene Baring .

Baring got engaged to Auguste born in 1849. Scheller († 1856), the only child of the doctor and medical advisor Scheller, who, however, died of consumption before the intended wedding and expressed the wish in writing that Baring should marry her friend Louise Rose. He then married Louise Wilhelmine born on September 1, 1857 in Hanover. Rose (1828–1904), daughter of the main tax collector for the city and district of Hanover, Karl Christian Rose. Baring had known his wife for many years as she worked as a governess in his parents' house. She was also a writer and published a number of poems. The couple had two children: Marie Baring (1858–1858) and Adolf Baring (1860–1945).

Live and act

Baring first attended the village school in his father's parish village in Obershagen. During his time at the grammar school in Celle, he took part in the political upheaval through liberal speeches in March 1848 , so that his father was advised to take him out of school. He passed his high school diploma on April 20, 1848 in Göttingen with the grade "Good". At Easter 1848 Baring enrolled at the University of Göttingen to study medicine. On August 14, 1853, he passed his doctorate there "with distinction". He then continued his studies at the University of Vienna until the end of July 1854 , most recently at the University of Prague . The offer to work for a doctor in Göttingen as his assistant and to pursue an academic career was turned down by Baring in order to settle in Celle according to the wishes of his fiancée, which he later regretted. After his excellent state examination on February 1, 1855 in Hanover, Baring opened his practice as a resident doctor on May 19 of the same year in Celle.

After the death of his fiancée, Baring applied by letter in London for a doctor's position with the new Anglo-German Legion formed for the Crimean War , for which he received an acceptance. Due to the peace treaty that was concluded a little later, this appointment did not come about. On November 10, 1858, Baring was appointed city ​​physician to the city of Celle, and a little later, on December 13, 1858, he was appointed railway doctor. With effect from January 9, 1861 he received from King George V the rank and title of a royal Hanoverian medical council . In 1864 he discovered the first trichinae epidemic in the Kingdom of Hanover , for which he was publicly thanked.

During the Battle of Langensalza in the German War, Baring worked in the war hospitals near Langensalza from June 28 to July 12, 1866 , when his home was occupied by Prussian troops. On 19./20. July 1866 he experienced the riot in Celle. But Baring rejected his idea of emigrating to England like his brother Edwin and other friends . During the Franco-Prussian War he set up a reserve hospital in the artillery barracks in Celle , where he treated wounded soldiers from the battle of St. Privat . During an operation on a soldier, Baring suffered an infection as a result of a small injury to his finger , which permanently impaired his left hand and became the cause of lasting sickness. As a result, he had to restrict his practice and give up his official activities soon after. He only continued to write his psychiatric reports , which the authorities have always valued. First, Baring withdrew his participation in the city gas commission in Celle, where he had been active alongside his work as a doctor.

In the summer of 1873 and 1874, Baring spent a long time with his family on the island of Wangerooge , which was newly established as a bath by Celle and Oldenburg , where he worked as a bathing doctor and bathing inspector and carried out scientific observations. In 1886 he was honored in a ceremony for his 25th anniversary as a railway doctor. In the same year he visited the island of Helgoland with his family and two sisters-in-law . Later he traveled to Saxon Switzerland , Thuringia and Graal in Mecklenburg .

Baring published several papers that won awards on workers' housing. In his paper on the railway medical system, he emphasized before all other experts the need to limit the consumption of alcohol by railway employees. He also published research on the air in educational institutions and other medical papers. Baring stood u. a. in correspondence with Johann Heinrich Wichern and Rudolf Virchow . He also wrote several poems that were also published.

Awards (selection)

• Red Eagle Order 4th Class
• Prussian war memorial 1870/71
• Royal Prussian commemorative medal from 1897
• Royal Saxon War Memorial Cross

Publications

• How to furnish and maintain workers' housing in a good and healthy way. Price font ; crowned and ed. from the Society for the Good and Charitable Basel , Bahnmaiers Buchhandlung (E, Detloff), Basel 1860. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
• On the railway medical system, by a Hanoverian railway doctor, Schulze-Verlag, Celle 1863

literature

• Adolf Baring : The Baring family, in particular the Hanoverian line, with 22 illustrations and a coat of arms in: German Roland Book for Gender Studies , published by the "Roland" Association for the Promotion of Stamm-, Wappen- und Siegelkunde EV, 1st volume, Dresden 1918, P. 7ff.
• Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families , Volume 102, Görlitz 1938.
• Wilhelm Rothert (Hrsg.): General Hanoverian biography: First volume: Hanoverian men and women since 1866. - Hanover: Sponholtz, 1912. Appendix
• Marianne Rodenstein : More light, more air: health concepts in urban development since 1750. Campus Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3593339110 , p. 119.

Web links

• Exchange of letters Baring

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Died. In: Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung , vol. 16, p. 473. ( limited preview in Google book search)
2. ↑ Prof. Helwing: The political science, namely the political economy and statistical literature of the year 1863 in: Journal of the Royal Prussian Statistical Bureau , Volume 4, p. 232, digitized