Hermann Askan Demme

Hermann Askan Demme ( born August 28, 1802 in Altenburg, † January 18, 1867 in Bern ) was a German -Swiss physician.

Demme was the son of Hermann Gottfried, General Superintendent of Saxe- Altenburg. He studied philosophy and theology in Jena and Berlin. In 1822 he joined the Jenaische fraternity. In the years 1824-1828, the former member of the youth sat in federal imprisonment. In 1830 he received his doctorate in Würzburg for Dr. med and was assistant to Johann Lukas Schönlein. In 1831 he was a military doctor in Warsaw, 1832, he traveled to the United States. Demme 1833 married Marie Lucie Elisabeth Auguste Diruf ( 1808-1882 ) of Heidelberg. The two had four sons. In the same year he became professor of anatomy at the University of Zurich and 1834 at the University of Bern. He was from 1835 a member of the Health Council. In 1837 he was burger from Interlaken. In 1847 he led the first in the German-speaking area of an operation under ether anesthesia. In 1856 he was Burger of Bern ( society means lion ).

Works

• General surgery of gunshot wounds. War.online Our ​​own experience in the Northern Italian lazarettos of 1859 and with use of the achievements to date, Volume 1 of Military Surgical Studies, Würzburg 1863. Certainly by Carl Hermann ( son of Hermann Askan ), which operates in Solferino
• Contributions to the pathological anatomy of the tetanus and some other diseases of the nervous system, Leipzig and Heidelberg, 1859. Online
• About the changes in the tissue by fire. A contribution to the pathological histology, Frankfurt 1857. Online

Swell

• Marie Lucie Elisabeth Auguste Demme - Diruf: An experience of my life and at the same time, a route to my knowledge of human nature, sl, 1866 ( University Archives Bern ).