August Lucae

Johann Constantin August Lucae ( born August 24, 1835 in Berlin, † March 17, 1911 ) was a German physician and otologist.

Life and work

Lucae came from an old family of pharmacists Berlin. His father was August Friedrich Theodor Lucae (1800-1848), pharmacist first class to Berlin and owner of " Red Eagle Pharmacy " as well as a mineral water factory in Berlin. His mother was born Caroline Wendel (1803-1870), daughter of Johann Georg Wendel (1754-1834) a professor of Drawing at the Gymnasium in Erfurt. One of his brothers was the architect Richard Lucae, another was the German scholar Karl Lucae ( 1833-1888 ).

August Lucae studied medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the University of Bonn. In 1859 he received his doctorate with the work of De usu laryngoscopiae nonnulla. His other ways then led him to Würzburg to Anton Friedrich von Troeltsch, Prague, Vienna, Paris and London. In Paris he made ​​the acquaintance with acoustics Rudolph Koenig here the first acoustic- physiological work of Lucae in 1862 emerged later in London he worked with Joseph Toynbee, who worked at the otological clinic at St. Mary 's Hospital.

After this he again went back to Berlin, where he still practiced in the same year at the Institute of Pathology of Rudolf Virchow. After his habilitation - with Scripture About deafness in gray degeneration of the spinal cord - he was from 1866 to 1905 worked as a lecturer at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. In 1871 he was first appointed associate professor and in 1874 he took over as director of the University Polyclinic for Diseases of the ear. Finally, he was appointed in 1899 as full professor of otology at the University in Berlin.

Lucae aimed at building a clinic affiliated with a department Neck Surgery at the Charité, but his first application for this purpose was rejected in 1871 by the current Minister Heinrich von Muhler of the Prussian Ministry of the spiritual, educational and medical Alan occasions. Its reasoning was that the establishment of such an independent clinic within the Charité Hospital was not permissible and that, furthermore, this also give us no suitable premises available to the University Hospital. But Lucaes resistant insistence within the administrative institutions as well as its high number of treatments and successes ultimately led to the change of opinion in the ministry. In 1881 he was entrusted with the management of the co-founders of the first stationary Department of throat diseases in Germany. In 1906 Lucae became Professor Emeritus.

Lucae was also a founding member of the aligned English style Club of Berlin, which was constituted on October 8, 1864.

Works (selection)

• The sound conduction through the bones of the head and their significance for the diagnosis of diseases of the ear Würzburg, 1870
• On the origin and treatment of the subjective auditory sensations Berlin, 1884
• About hemorrhage and hemorrhagic inflammation of the child's ear labyrinth. Archive for pathological anatomy and physiology and clinical medicine, June 7, Volume 88, Issue 3, pp. 556-575