Augustus Granville

Augustus Bozzi Granville, born Augusto Bozzi ( born October 7, 1783 in Milan, † March 3, 1872 in Dover ) was an Italian -born British general practitioner, gynecologist and author.

Life

He was the third son of Carlo Bozzi, Postmaster-General of the Austrian Lombardy, who was from an old and respected Lombard family and since his stay in Corsica there had personal connections to the Bonaparte family. His mother was an Englishwoman Rosa Granville, whose name he in London his own anfügte later. After lessons from the age of six at the Barnabites in Milan and he left school at the Collegio de Merati he studied medicine at the University of Pavia. He was a staunch Republican and Italian patriot and the French resisted under Napoleon Bonaparte. Therefore, he had sat as a student in Pavia even as a political prisoner in jail.

After graduating, he joined a traveling theater troupe and sang to the guitar. In Corfu he met William R. Hamilton, the attaché of the British ambassador Lord Elgin at Constantinople Opel. With Hamilton, he traveled to Greece. He then signed up as a doctor in the Turkish Navy, then joined the British Royal Navy and went on various ships in the Mediterranean, the West Indies and South America, where he met with Simón Bolívar. For him, Granville brought 1811 documents to Sir Robert Peel in London. at that time he contracted malaria and yellow fever.

In London he married an Englishwoman and converted from Catholicism to the Anglican faith. In 1813 he retired from the Royal Navy. For personal recommendations from the socially upstanding perimeter of his friend William R. Hamilton, he managed to access the medical establishment in London. But he ought to continue their education at the Women's Hospital l'Hospice de la Gynaecology in Paris and then settle down as a gynecologist in London, he was recommended. Granville followed this advice and also heard the lectures of 1816 Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire.

In 1818 he became physician to the Westminster Dispensary, and in 1829 president of the Westminster Medical Society. Granville examined health statistics and causes of death among the working class and sat stubbornly for the necessary reforms. In exile in London, he also fought for the independence of the split among foreign powers in Italy (see: History of Italy ).

Granville was an educated and much traveled man. He was also twice come up to Saint Petersburg and had the book about his travels St. Petersburgh. A Journal of Travels to and from Capital did; Through Flanders, the Rhenish Provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the Federated States of Germany, and France ( London, 1828) written. On one trip he visited on January 2, 1828 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

He was decades in the former " world spa " Bad Kissingen ( Bavaria ) one of those British doctors who practiced in the summer months for a few weeks in the spa, so that many English-speaking resort guests could be treated without language difficulties. During this time he also wrote his book The springs in Kissingen (Leipzig 1850). In the years from about 1855 to 1865, he served at the same time as secretary of that church committee, which was responsible for the construction and management of the new Anglican Church in Bad Kissingen at that time.

Granville to 1821, the first medical autopsy on an ancient Egyptian mummy - Irtyersenu (about 600-550 BC) of Thebes - have made ​​him the Royal Society of London, described in a lecture on 14 April 1825 under the then entitled An essay on Egyptian mummies ( published by W. Nicol, London 1825) was published. At that time believed the gynecologist uterine cancer to have found the cause of death. Today scientists believe Granville refuted and tuberculosis have been found to be the cause, as in 2009, has been reported worldwide.

In addition to his medical and scientific work, he published more than 220 books and writings have been translated into seven languages. In 1874, two years after his death, his autobiography Autobiography of AB Granville was published.

Orders and Awards

  • Royal Bavarian Order of Merit of St. Michael

Publications (selection)

  • An Historical and Practical Treatise on the internal use of the hydrocyanic ( prussic ) acid in pulmonary consumption and other diseases of the chest, Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820 ( online)
  • An essay on Egyptian mummies, published by W. Nicol, London 1825 (online)
  • St. Petersburgh. A Journal of Travels to and from Capital did; Through Flanders, the Rhenish Provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the Federated States of Germany, and France, publisher Henry Colburn, London 1828 (online)
  • The Royal Society in the XIXth century, London 1836 (online)
  • The spas of Germany, published by Henry Colburn, London 1838 ( online). - Reprint: British Library, Historical Print Editions, March 2011, ISBN 1241323119 ISBN 978-1241323110 or
  • The mineral springs at Kissingen. Their use and their effectiveness, translated by Theodore Cramer, published by JJ Weber, Leipzig 1850 ( online)
  • Autobiography of AB Granville, Granville PB (ed.), 2 vols, London 1874 ( online)
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