Johann Nepomuk Rust

Johann Nepomuk Rust ( * April 5, 1775 at Schloss Johannisberg to Jauernig; † October 9, 1840 at Gut Kleutsch in Frankenstein ) was a Prussian general surgeon, Secret Obermedizinalrat, professor and chairman of the Royal Advisory Board for Hospital Affairs and Head of the Charité. He was in his time considered the most prestigious German surgeon, his " Theoretical- practical manual of surgery, with the inclusion of the syphilitic and eye diseases " as the most thorough and comprehensive work of this genre at that time.

Biography

Rust was born in Austrian Silesia. At the age of 17 he dropped out of his predetermined military career, first studied law in Vienna and then in Prague medicine. In 1799 he earned a Master of Science in Obstetrics, 1800 there newly introduced doctoral degree of surgery. There, she worked in Vienna, Paris, then as a professor in the Lyceum to Olomouc and from 1803 as professor of surgery at the University of Krakow. In Krakow, he founded the local surgical- clinical hospital and a surgical museum. In 1808 he earned a medical doctorate in 1810 and " primary surgeon " ( surgical chief physician ) at the General Hospital in Vienna. Due to an offer that had made him the Prussian government during the Congress of Vienna, he joined in 1815 at the Prussian military. In 1816 he was in Berlin " first surgeon " and head of surgical and ophthalmological clinic at the Charité, associate professor at the medical-surgical military academy and published the " magazine for the whole of medicine ." In 1817 he gave at the Charité first clinical instruction in Ophthalmology. In 1818 he received from the Alma Mater Beroliniensis the extraordinary and in 1824 full professor. In the meantime, he was appointed Obermedizinalrat in the Prussian Ministry of the spiritual, educational and medical facilities and Alan was promoted to surgeon general of the army a year later in 1821 to the Privy.

From 1823 he supervised the " Critical repertory for the medicine ." In 1829 he became president of the board of trustees created by him for Hospital Affairs, 1834 personal physician Friedrich Wilhelm IV ( at that time still Crown Prince ), and in 1837 director of surgical and pharmaceutical studies at the meantime Friedrich -Wilhelms- University vice christened Berlin University. Dated December 21, 1836 him King Ludwig I of Bavaria awarded the Knight's Cross of Merit of the Bavarian Crown, connected to the personal nobility title of " Knight of ". Due to increasing poor eyesight he retired from in 1838 more and more on his Silesian estate, where he died in 1840.

The suboccipital vertebral Malum, a tubercular disease of the atlas and axis, is called after him as Rust disease ( Rust 's Desease ).