Johann Peter Frank

Johann Peter Frank ( born March 19, 1745 in Rodalben, † April 24, 1821 in Vienna ) was a German physician and is considered the founder of public hygiene and a sociomedical embossed Health Service.

Biography

Johann Peter Frank was the youngest of thirteen children of a grocer. At the school he went to Eußerthal, Rastatt and Lorraine Bock home. He studied philosophy in 1761 in Metz, but decided in 1763 to study medicine in Heidelberg and Strasbourg. He received his doctorate in 1766 as a doctor of medicine in Heidelberg. After working as a country doctor in Rodalben, Bitsch, Zaisenhausen and Bruchsal Frank 's personal physician was the Prince-Bishop of Speyer. Later, the management of an institution in Bad Durkheim and a hospital in Bruchsal him from this was transferred, where he built a Chriurgenschule. In 1767 he married, his wife Katharine, died of puerperal fever, the son of a half a year later. In 1770 he married Marianne Wittlinsbach, who bore him a son.

1779 Frank published the first of six volumes of his major work " system a complete medici African Polizey ". He Hierinstellt in the section " Reverting to the gym and the same Vortteilen in public education," the health, ethical and cultural significance as well as the character-building function of physical exercises and explains a number of useful exercises. This includes " walking, hiking, running, jumping, throwing, skating, sledding, ball games, fencing, riding, dancing, archery, cold- bathing, swimming, stilt walking and climbing ." After Frank in 1784 took up a professorship in Göttingen, he was professor in Pavia in 1785, and Director General of the Medizinalwesens in Austrian Lombardy. As a professor at the Vienna General Hospital Frank begins 1795 with the fundamental modernization of the institute. In 1804 he was appointed with his son Josef Frank at the Imperial University of Vilnius, where he also introduces modern structures and curricula. 1807-1808 is finally Frank physician to the Russian Tsar Alexander I at the court in St. Petersburg. Frank died 1821 in Vienna at the effects of a stroke and rests in a grave of honor in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 32 A, number 3).

Basic significance of his work

Johann Peter Frank is a pioneer in the field of social medicine and the public health service and one of the founders of the field of hygiene as a university subject. The six-volume publication "System of a complete medici African Polizey " is his masterpiece. His advocacy for better training of doctors, nurses and midwives, better financing of health care, as well as his advocacy of a mandatory medical school of Viennese surgeon made ​​from a Frank regarded as uncomfortable contemporaries.

Frank stood for a fundamental improvement of hygiene in public buildings, more light into wards, parks in cities, sports and gymnastics in schools and pauses in the work hours a. He also did not hesitate to make this the rulers, for whom he worked, clearly. Alexander von Humboldt said of him: " ( I ) confess that rare man has made such an impression on me. "

Works

• System of a complete medici African Polizey. From 1779 to 1819.
• Small fonts practical content., 1779.

Johann -Peter - Frank Medal

When Johann -Peter - Frank Medal is the highest award of the Association of Physicians of the public health service ( BVÖGD ). It has been awarded since 1972 at the annual national conference of the Association for outstanding services to the public health system of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Appreciation

In 1875 (9th district) was named the Frankgasse after him in Vienna Alsergrund.

In recognition of his merits, the " Frank - van Swieten Lectures" are one of the Technical University of Braunschweig, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Heidelberg, UMIT in Hall near Innsbruck, the University of Leipzig and the University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn jointly undertaken international course on strategic information management named in hospitals after him. The Lower Saxony Institute for Sport History has recorded it in 1998 in the honor of the Sports Gallery in Lower Saxony.