Joseph von Lindwurm

Joseph of dragon ( born May 10, 1824 in Würzburg, † February 21, 1874 in Munich) was a German physician. He married Josephine of dragon, a daughter of Johann Baptist von Zenetti. The couple had two daughters.

Life and work

Dragon was the only child of his parents. His father died when Joseph was four years old. In 1842 he lost his mother. Dragon graduated from the high schools in Aschaffenburg and Speyer. Then studied philosophy, science and medicine in Würzburg, where he joined the Corps Bavaria joined, as well as from the second semester Medicine in Heidelberg. In the fall of 1849 he passed the state examination and received his PhD a year later. Research trips took him to Dublin, Edinburgh, Vienna and Paris. Here he provided evidence that Secondary syphilis is contagious to the same extent as the Primary.

After his extended trip activities, dragon operated in Munich as a general practitioner:

From 1859 to 1874 dragon headed the dermatological department of the general hospital in Munich, later hospital ld Isar and now a University of Munich Medical Clinic - Downtown. Four years later he was appointed by King Maximilian II as Professor of Dermatology and Venereal Diseases at the Department of Internal Medicine, of which he took over in 1869. With his appointment as a professor of dermatology first Chair was created in Germany.

For his merits dragon was raised to the peerage in 1872. In 1873 he received the Knight's Cross of the Royal Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown.

Joseph of dragon died in 1874 at the age of 49 years, only five years after his wife of pneumonia.

In Munich, the old road to Sendling 1878 renamed in his honor in Lindwurmstraße. The family grave of the wyvern is located on the Old South Cemetery in Munich.

The name dragon refers to the mythical beast dragon of Norse mythology.

Works (selection)

  • About a peculiar change in shape of blood cells, in: Journal of rational medicine 1847, pp. 266-268
  • About the Verschiednehit the syphilitic diseases in Wurzburg medical journal, 1862, pp. 143-177
  • Necessity of Zwangsrevaccination, in: Medical Intelligence Journal 1972, p 134-135
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