Ernst Ludwig Heim

Ernst Ludwig Heim ( born July 22, 1747 in Solz, Thuringia, † September 15, 1834 in Berlin) was a Berlin physician and honorary citizen.

Life

Home was the son of the pastor Johann Ludwig Heim (1704-1785), who wrote, among other things, " Henn Bergische Chronicle ", was born. After studying home doctorate in 1772 as a doctor of medicine. From 1775 he lived in Spandau in Berlin, in 1776 became the town physician and appointed district physician of the Havel country later. At the house Reformation 2nd place in the old town of Spandau, the former Offiziantenhaus, a memorial plaque (see: Monuments in Spandau) to Ernst Ludwig Heim, who had his official residence here.

In 1783 he moved to Berlin on the Gendarmenmarkt, and opened a practice in Markgrafenstrasse. He gained wide recognition and popularity there. Every year he treated three to four thousand patients he treated with free arms as doctor many of the poor patients and often took on the drug costs. In the treatment of patients Home made ​​no differences, but fell on by witty or sometimes coarse remarks, which are regarded as examples of his popularity with the common people. This home was regarded in his day as the "original ", for which the following examples: To the Elector of Hesse, he casually remarked, " Your Highness are just as steifpetrig, as I have always imagined a real elector " or a lieutenant " cough comes either from the lungs, or it comes from drinking. However, from the lung your cough does not come. "

Home was the first doctor a smallpox vaccination. Since a doctor's visit at the Humboldt in Tegel he taught the eight -year-old Alexander von Humboldt in botany. He was the last doctor of the Prussian Queen Luise.

Other family members

To the family of Ernst Ludwig Heim included:

• Brother Dr. Johann Ludwig Heim (1741-1819): Wirkl.Geh.Rat and Vice - Konsistorialpräsident in Meiningen, wrote: " Geological Description of the Thuringian Forest Mountains " (1796-1812)
• Brother Georg Christoph Home (1743-1807): priest in Gumpelstadt wrote the " Flora germanica " (1799-1800)
• Brother Frederick Thimotheus Home (1751-1820): priest in Effelder wrote the " Systematic Classifizierung the cherry varieties " (1819 )

The son, also Berlin physicians as the daughters of home, the doctor of the poor, married into the Prussian nobility.

A Luise home founded the convent in Wasungen, today museum of local history, and donated to the church where they were born Solz end of the 19th century Kühn- organ and 1890, the church clock still functioning.

Honors

Home in 1822 on the occasion of its 50th anniversary Doctor because of his decades-long selflessness honorary citizen of Berlin. In the same year he was inducted into the Leopoldina.

His grave, which is located in the cemetery II of Jerusalem and the New Church in Berlin- Kreuzberg, Zossener road, Dept. of 3.1 was added to the list of honorary tombs of the State of Berlin.

According to Heim, public facilities and streets in Berlin are named, in addition, numerous monuments were erected for him - among others stands in Berlin- Marzahn on the Helene- Weigel-Platz, a 1986 created by Professor Siegfried Wehrmeister bust - and over 16 biographies have been published.

The German Federal Post Office Berlin honored the doctor on the occasion of his 150th death anniversary in 1984 on a stamp, in which his sense of humor was also expressed by a wink.