William Henry Newman-Sherwood
William Henry Newman-Sherwood , also Wilhelm Heinrich Newman-Sherwoood (born May 25, 1812 in London , † March 5, 1872 in Lübeck ) was a British-German doctor and politician.
Life
William Henry Newman-Sherwood was a son of the businessman Samuel Newman-Sherwoood (1787-1848). After a bankruptcy, the family left England in 1815 and came to Lübeck after stints in Paris, Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg. Here, in 1818, his father became a teacher of English at the Katharineum in Lübeck . William Henry attended this from 1821 until he graduated from high school in 1830. Georg Bernhard Eschenburg and Friedrich Christian Avé-Lallemant were among his high school graduates .
He studied human medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg , especially with Franz Naegele , and Halle , especially with Wilhelm Hermann Niemeyer (1788-1840). In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Hanseatia Heidelberg in 1831 . In Halle he was awarded a doctorate in 1835 with a gynecological dissertation on auscultation in pregnant women. med. PhD. In November 1835 he received his license to practice medicine and opened a practice in Lübeck. At the end of the year he joined the Medical Association in Lübeck . In 1839 he received citizenship in Lübeck. On December 4, 1841, the city council appointed him as a part-time city midwifery teacher to succeed Johann Christian Jeremias Martini ; he held this office until his death. His gynecological practice was very successful; he was considered the most sought-after gynecologist in Lübeck in the 19th century.
He was secretary of the Medical Association from 1843 to 1846 and its chairman in 1849, 1853, 1859 and 1865. From 1849 to 1863 he was a member of the Lübeck citizenship and became its deputy spokesman. From 1852 to 1854 and from 1855 to 1857 he was a member of the citizens' committee , which mediated between the citizenship and the senate and gave the citizens a share in the government of the city-state. In 1867 he participated in the creation of a new medical ordinance and was a member of the newly created Medical Collegium as a supervisory body .
Since 1842 he was married to Mathilde Buchhol (t) z (1819–1850), a daughter of Syndicus Carl August Buchholz and his wife Catharina Eleonora Luise, born. Tesdorpf († 1846). The couple had five children; his wife died shortly after giving birth to their fifth child.
In 1857 he acquired the house in Königstrasse Jac.Q. 664 (today's house number: 38).
Works
- De Auscultatione Obstetricia: Dissertatio Inauguralis. Halae: Grunert [1835] (diss.)
literature
- 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. 257-265
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 270
- ^ Kösener corps lists 1910 , 113 , 23.
- ↑ At the same time, the council decided to separate the offices of midwifery teacher and city physician again and appointed Johann August Hermann Heylandt (1799–1865) to be Martini's successor as city physician, see Loytved (Lit.), p. 264
- ↑ Loytved (Lit.), p. 258
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Newman-Sherwood, William Henry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Newman-Sherwoood, Wilhelm Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-German doctor and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1872 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |