Heinrich Averbeck

Johann Heinrich Bernhard Martin Averbeck (* August 13, 1844 in Bremen, † February 2nd 1889 in Bad Laubach bei Koblenz on the Rhine ) was a general practitioner and spa physician, considered the founder of physical healing methods and their combination.

Life

After graduation in 1864 at the Old School in Bremen the son of a Bremen lamp manufacturers studied medicine in Heidelberg, Göttingen and Basel, where he at the request of Carl von Liebermeister with a dissertation on Addison's disease, which was first described by Thomas Addison in 1855, 1868 summa cum laude was awarded his doctorate. After further studies in Tübingen and Göttingen, he wrote in 1869 the first comprehensive monograph on the Addison's disease. On his medical development had a decisive influence besides Karl Ewald Hasse, Jacob Henle, August Socin especially Carl von Dear Master.

From 1868-1879 he worked in Bremen as a general practitioner, surgeon and obstetrician in private practice. During this time he joined with publications on vaccination and compulsory vaccination, 1876, The social question and its solution, 1877, and the corruption of the Food and Related Products, 1878 in appearance. On the latter subject he lectured and wrote articles for the newspaper Weser in Bremen.

In April 1879, he opened with a native of the East Prussian Schievelbein, Jewish former military doctor, a Prussian army doctor, Dr. Ludwig Senff ( 1833-1885 ), in Baden -Baden sanatoriums, where for the first time together in an institution, all physical healing methods and the combination could be made in the application, especially in chronic conditions and diseases. The case also was first conducted antiseptic inhalation method in conjunction with lung gymnastics and the Medical gymnastics took it a dominant position. The basic idea was, globally and locally, to their object by the modified and combined use of the available physical remedy a suggestion and modification of metabolic processes. He took the view that, although the individual remedies are nothing new, but can achieve a significant effect, especially in their combination and individual application and dosage. At the turn of 1880/1881 he took over the sole management of this institute after leaving Senffs. As a second doctor he employed Dr. Eugen Kommerell ( 1852-1936 ), who worked from 1881 until the dissolution of the sanatorium in Baden -Baden with him.

During the year 1882 the purchase of the cold-water bath sanatorium Laubbach on the Rhine at Koblenz from the previous in liquidation stock corporation. Transfer of the facilities of the Institute in Baden -Baden to Bad Laubach ( old spelling: Laubbach ) with complete modernization from 1882 to 1883. For the first time the creation of a center for physical medicine at the same time possible hospitalization of the patient as a model institution for the implementation of physical therapy clinics and spas. During this time work on medical gymnastics and massage. 1886 introduction of the term: the "acute neurasthenia " in homonymous work as a supplement to the first German classic monograph (1885 ) on the neurasthenia of Rudolf Arndt. Various reviews for this among other things of Sigmund Freud, 1887. On the application of physical methods of treatment in their combination especially with internal diseases he had contacts amongst others with Ernst L. Wagner and Alfred Hegar, who sent him patients for further treatment. 1886 call for establishment of a reciprocity insurance health, intended to enable each physical-mental working civilized man to make every 3-5 years for the period of 3-8 weeks a cure or go to a summer resort. Thus initial pioneering idea for the future regional insurance agencies. 1888 work on the mental overburdening of youth. His brother Otto Binswanger joined in his great work on neurasthenia 1896 the therapeutic conception of the possibilities of physical healing methods to sustainably.

Averbeck was a member of Oskar Liebreich with established Balneology Section since 1886 ( since 1889: Balneologische society ) of the Society for Medicine in Berlin and a research associate of the General German university newspaper in Berlin. He was cremated in Gotha and was buried in the cemetery in Bremen Rien Berger. His son Bernard Averbeck was later President of COBA, German Cement Association.

Publications

Literature

  • Address the Stadt Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein, eds. U. Theiss, Koblenz 1883
  • Biographical Dictionary of the outstanding physicians of all times and peoples, 2nd edition, eds. Haberling, Hübotter, Vierordt, Volume 1, Berlin- Vienna 1929
  • Binswanger, Otto: The pathology and treatment of neurasthenia, Jena: Gustav Fischer 1896
  • Brown, Julius: Systematic Textbook of balneotherapy; 5th edition; Braunschweig: Harald Bruhn 1887
  • German Medizinische Wochenschrift, No. 51.1887, S.1106
  • Gsell - Fels, Th: The bathrooms and climatic health resorts in Germany; Division II: the Baths of Lake Constance, of Württemberg, Bavaria, Thuringia and resin; 2nd corrected edition; Zurich: Caesar Schmidt 1892; like, 1st Edition 1885, here p 202-204
  • Lower Saxony life pictures, Volume 9; Hildesheim 1976 S.155ff
  • Julius Pagel: Biographical Dictionary of the outstanding physicians of the 19th century, Berlin 1901, 1929
  • Prager Medizinische Wochenschrift, 13 (1888 ), p 67
  • Reimer, Hermann: Handbook of speciellen Climatotherapy and balneotherapy, Berlin 1889
  • Sauer - Kaulbach, Liselotte Where once Kurschatten walked, the history of the lost healing and spa town of Bad Laubach, in Rhein-Zeitung, Koblenz 44 (1989 ), No. 8, pp. 14
  • Weser -Zeitung, Bremen, Nr.15146 of February 12, 1889, morning edition
  • Courier on Sunday, Bremen No.14 (78 ), 1989, p 23
  • Averbeck, Hubertus: From the cold water cure to physical therapy. Reflections on people and at the time of the most important developments. With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Heinz Schott, Bonn and a foreword by Prof. Dr. Joachim Hofmann - Göttig, Koblenz; Bremen: European Higher Education Publishing in 2012, here S.645 -674; Pp. 736-868; ISBN 978-3-86741-782-2
  • Physician (19th century)
  • Person (Bremen)
  • German
  • Born in 1844
  • Died in 1889
  • Man
Obstetrics Baden-Baden Kinesitherapy Ernst Leberecht Wagner Ernst Ludwig Alfred Hegar Friedrich Albrecht Erlenmeyer
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