Carl Arnold Kortum

Carl Arnold Kortum ( born July 5, 1745 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, † August 15, 1824 in Bochum, Germany ) was a German doctor, writer and local historian.

Life

Carl Arnold Kortum came as the son of Christian Friedrich and his wife Helene Maria, nee Severin, in the lordship of Broich on the world. He attended from 1760 to 1763 the Gymnasium in Dortmund and studied until 1766 medicine at the University of Duisburg. After graduating, he settled first as a doctor in Mülheim, where he married Helene Margarethe Ehinger on 7 June in 1768. It was not until 1770 he moved permanently over to Bochum, where he led a thriving practice. He was interested in his spare time for history and geography.

Poetic fame gained Kortum 's contemporary satire of life, Meynungen and deeds of Hieronymus Jobs the candidates, and how he formerly acquired much fame and finally as a night watchman to Sulzburg died - in short Jobsiade. The first edition of the work appeared in 1784.

Kortum 1790 wrote the first history of the city of Bochum. To this end, he gave the magistrate a hand drawn colored map.

A bronze statue of Jobs today adorns an ornamental fountain in Mülheim- Ruhr at the Althofstraße next to St. Peter's Church. The test scene of the candidate jobs is also the subject of groups of figures of a fountain in front of the Bochum district court "Whether the responses of the candidates happened Jobses general shaking of the head ." A bust Kortums can also be found in the subway station at the Bochum City Hall.

During the period of National Socialism, the department store of the Brothers Alsberg was renamed Kortum department store.

The doctor and medical writer Theodor Kortum (1765-1847) was his cousin, according to NDB entry.

Works (selection)

  • Life, Meynungen and deeds / Of Hieronimus Jobs, the candidates, / And as He is formerly acquired much fame / too finally died as a night watchman in Sulzburg. Perrenon, Münster and Hamm 1784 ( First edition of the first part of " Jobsiade ").
  • The Jobsiade. A grotesque - comic epic poem in three parts. Mallinckrodt, Dortmund 1799 ( First edition of the complete " Jobsiade " )
  • The Jobsiade: a grotesque - comic epic poem in three parts. Brockhaus, Leipzig 8th edition, 1857 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • Bee calendar, or as a bee-keeper bey the maintenance of bees, should behave after each Monath. Röder, Wesel, 1776.
  • Principles of beekeeping, especially for the regions of Westphalia. Röder and Heinsius, Wesel and Leipzig, 1776.
  • The martyrs of fashion. A story satirical content. Röder, Wesel in 1778.
  • Message from former and present state of the city of Bochum. In: New Westphälisches magazine for Geography, History and Statistics, 1790, pp. 49-80
  • Health Booklet for miners. Blothe, Dortmund 1798.
  • Sketch of a time and Litterargeschichte the art of medicine from its origins until the beginning of the nineteenth century; for physicians and non- physicians; with the author's portrait. Hesselmann, Unna 1809.
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