Johann Georg Heine

Johann Georg Heine ( born April 3, 1771 in Lauterbach, Black Forest, † September 7, 1838 in Scheveningen ) was a German orthopedic technician. He is considered the founder of orthopedics in Germany.

From Cutler to the prosthetist

Heine was born on April 3, 1771 in Lauterbach in the Black Forest, the son of a brewer. He learned in Überlingen of the crafts of a cutler and went in the following years on tour, which led him to Esslingen am Neckar, Mannheim and Strasbourg. He finally left Southern Germany and held from 1794 to 1798 in Berlin, where he had contact with Barthel von Siebold, the son of Würzburg surgeon Karl Kaspar von Siebold. In May 1798 Heine moved to Würzburg and became an instrument maker at the Julius -Maximilians- University. He married Anna Wuerzburg Foertsch and had two children, Anna ( * 1801) and Joseph Heine ( * 1803), who later became a doctor in the Palatinate was.

Own workshop and own institute

Soon Heine had his own workshop, were produced in the Prostheses, stretching beds, wheelchairs and other orthopedic aids and offered for sale. 1807 Heine published a " Systematic list of surgical instruments, bandages and equipment" as a catalog for the medical profession. His other publications quickly found recognition in the medical community. A call to Berlin declined from Heine; he remained in Würzburg and received from the hands of the Bavarian Crown Prince, the "Golden Civil Merit Medal". Johann Wolfgang von Goethe knew the Publications Heine and took them up in his library. He learned the " surgeon Heine " know on the board of the Grand Duke Karl August and was so impressed by him that he invited him to his house at the Weimar wife plan.

Opened in 1816, Johann Georg Heine in the former Stephen's Monastery, the first orthopedic institute on German soil, which became widely known later under the name Caroline Institute, named after the Bavarian Queen Caroline.

As Heine began to want to heal and non- orthopedic ailments, it came into conflict with the Würzburg medical profession, and the decades-long good cooperation was terminated.

1829 gave Heine the Institute to his nephew Bernhard Heine and moved to Holland over. He earned in Brussels and The Hague homes for the construction of institutions. Between The Hague and Scheveningen he built a Seebadeanstalt. Heine recognized the value of the medical bath - next to the orthopedics he set the Balneology.

When he tried to cure cholera with mustard baths, he came again into conflict with the local medical profession. The Dutch doctors sent him no more patients.

From Bavaria Heine received the news that the practice of orthopedics him is forbidden. He fell ill with dropsy of the chest and died on 7 September 1838 in Scheveningen. He was buried in Würzburg. There is a large grave monument to him was erected in 1841 by Ernst Mayer, showing the orthopedic surgeon in his work. In his home town of Lauterbach, there is a plaque that was in 1971 attached to the church wall. In Lauterbach there is also a Heinestrasse.

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