Emil Osann

Emil Osann ( born May 25, 1787 Weimar, † January 11, 1842 in Berlin) was a German physician who is considered the founder of scientific Balneology.

Family

Emil Osann was the eldest son of weimaranischen Government Council Friedrich Heinrich Gotthelf Osann ( 1753-1803 ). His mother Caroline Amalie Friederika born hoof (1766-1843), sister of Christopher William hoof married, after the early death of his father in 1815 the Minister of State Christian Gottlob von Voigt. His brother Gottfried Wilhelm Osann (1796-1866) was a professor of chemistry and physics in Tartu and Würzburg, his brother Friedrich Gotthilf Osann (1794-1858) was a professor of philology at Jena and Giessen.

Life

Emil Osann studied medicine in Jena and Göttingen. In 1809 he received his doctorate at the University of Göttingen with the work " Dissertatio sistens Saturni medicum maxime internum ". After completion of the Prussian state examination, he settled as a general practitioner in Berlin.

Shortly thereafter, he became an assistant physician at the, founded by his uncle Christopher William hoof polyclinical Institute in Berlin. Since 1814 Osann was an associate professor of physiology at the local medical-surgical military academy. He habilitated in 1815 and was appointed as an associate in 1818, in 1826 a full professor of remedies doctrine. In 1833, he was succeeded hoof director of the polyclinic institution.

He was a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists, Leopoldina since 1820.

Work

Not least due to the influence Hufeland Osann employed as scientists mainly with the effect of healing springs. In 1822 he published a work on the mineral springs Emperor Lazne in Eger, for him, the Austrian Emperor gave the large golden medal of honor. His main work was the Physikalisch- medicinische account of all known mineral springs of the principal countries of Europe, is considered the first comprehensive work of Balneology. It was in three volumes, but Osann was only the first two complete until his death on the German spas. Since 1837 he was the sole editor of the Journal of practical medicine.

Osann became involved with his wife in numerous social projects and helped sick fellow Berliners.