Friedrich Wilhelm Beneke (March 27, 1824, Halle - December 16, 1882, Marburg) - German physician, balneologist, teacher and medical writer.
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Biography
In 1846 he entered the University of Gottingen to study medicine, in 1846 he received his medical degree there for his thesis "De ortu et causis monstrorum disquisitio". Then he studied in Prague for several months and in the same year he returned to his hometown, where he opened a medical practice. In 1848 he was called to the front of the war for Schleswig-Holstein as a military doctor as part of the Hanover army. In the period from 1849 to 1851, he interned at the German Hospital in London and owned medical practice in Hanover, and in summer was a government balneologist at the resort of Regensburg.
In 1853 he became a physician to the Grand Duke of Oldenburg . In 1855, he became the first balneologist in Bad Nauheim and then received the right to lecture in Marburg . In 1858, he became director of the Institute of Pathology and Anatomy in Marburg and at the same time was introduced to the Secret Medicinal Council, in 1863 he was appointed adjunct professor of pathological anatomy and general pathology, in 1867 he became a full professor, combining work with teaching until the end of his life balneologist in Bad Nauheim.
Through the efforts of Beneke, sanatoriums for children were set up on the coast of the North Sea . On his initiative, a “union for joint work on scientific medicine” was created (“Verein für gemeinschaftliche Arbeiten zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Heilkunde”); He also edited the body of this union (“Correspondenzblatt des Vereins etc.” and “Archiv des Vereins etc.”). The greatest value belongs to his works on balneology and metabolic pathology: "Der phosphorsaure Kalk in physiologischer und pathologischer Beziehung" (Göttingen, 1850); "Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Oxalurie" (Göttingen, 1852); Grundlinien der Pathologie des Stoffwechsels (Berlin, 1874); "Constitution und constitutionelles Kranksein des Menschen" (Marburg, 1881). Beneke also wrote a number of works on hygiene and statistics.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Marburger Professorenkatalog - 2016.
Literature
- Jacobzon L.Ya. Beneke, Friedrich-Wilhelm // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 extra.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.