August Hauner
August Hauner, 1858 by Hauner, origin. Napoleon (Michael Simon ) Hauner ( born October 29, 1811 in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, † June 11, 1884 in Munich) was a German pediatrician, professor and founder of the Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital in Munich.
Life and work
August Hauner was born in the Bavarian town of Neumarkt an der Rott and studied medicine in Munich and Vienna. In July 1835, he earned his doctorate at the University of Munich on " De febri puerperali " ( "From puerperal fever "). From 1837 to 1845 practiced Hauner first in Tann ( Lower Bavaria ), later in Murnau. In 1845 he moved to Munich, where he worked first as " urban poor people's doctor " for an annual salary of 150 florins. Finally, the then thirty-three Hauner 1846 opened a private pediatric clinic in a rented apartment in the sun road 27, financed by equity and donations of a set up for that purpose association, which stood under the patronage of Queen Therese, the wife of King Ludwig I.. It was one of the first children's hospitals in the German-speaking and had the St. Anna Children's Hospital in Vienna ( founded in 1837 ) as a model. Hauner saw his children's hospital not only as a place for the treatment of sick children but also as an information for mothers about proper nutrition, care and education of their children. 1849 was the relocation of the Children's Hospital in the house Jagerstrasse 9 Hauner habilitated in 1848 for the subject of pediatrics at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. In 1850 he was appointed Privatdozent in 1858 and an honorary professor with no claim to content. Only hard he could accept the fact that he never received a proper chair, as the Medical Faculty of the University of Munich complained that the place of his medical achievements less the autopsy table and the scientific laboratory were, but the bedside. The pediatrician was of the view that children are not only to provide medical care, but also to their " proper education " as a means of prevention should be respected. To this end, he wrote:
1858 August Hauner the personal nobility was conferred. Until 1883 he continued his clinic for the University of Munich Lectures on children's diseases. Hauner published annual reports on its children's hospital as well as from 1863, the research series " Contributions to Pädiatrik ".
In his professional contributions and countless speeches he favored not necessarily the drug treatment but also advocated the nature-friendly forms of treatment. So he recommended, for example, in scarlet fever and typhoid to use the healing power of water and children who suffered from chest and abdominal disease should be placed in lukewarm milk baths.
With high energy, he campaigned for the smallpox vaccination, which he regarded as a great blessing to the invention.
Hauner succeeded in decades of efforts to attract numerous patrons for his idea of a large public pediatric clinic. On March 15, 1882 modern hospital building was handed over to the Lindwurmstraße its determination. The director of the Munich city engineer Arnold Zenetti had taken over the design of the building, which is until today, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital cal. August von Hauner survived his life's work by only two years, and died after a long illness in June 1884. His son Alfred Halm took over the management of the hospital, which was acquired in 1886 by the Bavarian State. Heinrich von Ranke, who was head of the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic until then, was appointed the first director of the newly created University Children's Clinic in the Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital.
Hauner was a member of the fraternity Corps Isaria Munich in KSCV.
His tomb is located in the Old South Cemetery in Munich. In his home town remembers a street to him.
Writings
- Contributions to Paediatrik. Hirschwald, Berlin 1863 ( XI, 227 pp. )
- Broad physical education of children. From the lectures in children Spitale. Fritsch, Munich 1868 (VI, 151 pp. )