Joseph Heine
Joseph (of ) Heine ( born November 28, 1803 in Würzburg, † November 4, 1877 in Munich) was a physician and governmental and medical officer in the Palatinate.
From Würzburg in the Palatinate province (1803-1848)
Joseph Heine was born on November 28, 1803, the son of Johann Georg Heine orthopedists in Würzburg. He attended until 1824 the Würzburg school, and then studied in the Franconian metropolis and medicine in Munich. In 1827 he put in Bamberg from the state exam and received his doctorate in the same year in Würzburg as a doctor of medicine.
Heine deepened his medical knowledge by traveling abroad. So he dealt in winter 1828/29 in Paris with skin diseases and surgery, the latter with Guillaume Dupuytren.
His father Johann Georg Heine departure to Holland in 1829 forced Joseph to return to Würzburg, where he along with his cousin Bernhard led the Caroline Institute for one year. 1830 drove him the " desire for further training " to Vienna and Warsaw ( 1831), where he treated the wounded of the Polish November Uprising and cholera sufferers.
Ill Even with typhoid fever, he was forced to Bavaria return and he practiced as a doctor in Homburg am Main and Würzburg, before he applied as Canton doctor in the Palatine Forest Moor and with the appointment in 1836 Royal Bavarian official, was what he remained until his death. In 1840 he applied for a higher place, he was Canton doctor first class in Germersheim (up to 1851)
" Political " interlude (1848-1851)
In the revolutionary year 1848, Joseph Heine ran for a seat in the National Assembly in Frankfurt, but just going down. The political leanings of the " Non-political ", as he called himself, can be called a " great German, anti-revolutionary ". His second effort at a political mandate was successful: He was elected to the second chamber of the Bavarian Landtag. The mandate he gave back in 1851 and went as a city court doctor and hospital director to Bamberg
County and medical officer of the Palatinate (1856-1875)
Another career move meant the nomination as " circular and medical officer of the Palatinate ". He was responsible for the overall supervision of the health of this Bavarian administrative district based in Speyer. Until his retirement (1875 ) he did a great job in his responsibility for the supervision of the medical profession, hospitals, and pharmacies throughout the Palatinate. He did not have a doctor's office but treated friends and relatives, but also destitute citizens. His good connections to the German medical profession, for example, to Rudolf Virchow in Wurzburg, it was due to that in the summer of 1861 took place the 36th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Physicians in Speyer.
The relationship with his father
When Johann Georg Heine 1829 Würzburg and left the family to work in the Netherlands, this must have been for the son of Joseph a severe shock. A later offer of the father to take over a house in Brussels as a sanatorium, he refused, preferring completed his medical education in other European cities. With concern Joseph saw the Father in areas of medicine, for which he was not qualified efforts. A single encounter between father and son there was in 1838, shortly before the death of John George. Joseph want to help the seriously ill father, but he insisted stubbornly on the self-treatment with questionable methods. Add a font that Joseph Heine published in 1842, he reckoned with harsh words with the Father. Serious allegations for its break with the family, but also his unscientific approach in his last decade of life, followed by effusive praise for the orthopedic surgeon Johann Georg Heine.
Joseph Heine and Anselm Feuerbach
In addition to numerous friendships with prominent contemporaries as Bavarian Minister Theodor von Zwehl, the publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta, the philosopher of history Peter Ernst von Lasaulx and Adolf von Zerzog, especially the relationship Joseph Heine family Feuerbach was particularly intense. The uncle of the famous painter, the mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach knew and admired Heine as a student and transferred the friendship after his death on the older brother Joseph Anselm Feuerbach, who taught archeology in Freiburg.
Heine realized early artistic talent of the son Anselm Feuerbach and tried to promote it: he and Zwehl wanted to send the young painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach in Munich, but the twenty -year-old traveled to Antwerp in 1850. Passing through, he visited Heine in Germersheim, so that the money for the journey ' rausrückt ", but then he admits," Heine was grumpy, and I have equal say goodbye in a polite way, I 'm sick of it, very. " This broke the connection - at least according to the evidence of existing sources - from. Anselm went to Paris and finally to Rome, and Heine lost him out of his vision.
Joseph Heine was honored at his retirement in 1875 with the Bavarian nobility staff. He lived for two years in Munich, where he died on 4 November 1877.