Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx

Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx was a German physician and college lecturer. He is not related to Karl Marx, the founder of Marxism.

Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx
Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx
BornMarch 10, 1796
Duisburg, Germany
OccupationGerman physician and college lecturer

Life and works

Marx was born on 10 March 1796 in Karlsruhe, the son of a Jewish antiquarian, and attended the Karlsruhe Lyceum, where he was taught by Johann Peter Hebel and Karl Christian Gmelin. In 1813 he began studies in philosophy and medicine in Heidelberg, where, in 1817, he participated in the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft as a friend of Heinrich Carl Alexander Pagenstecher. He had contacts with Jean Paul and attended inter alia lectures by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, becoming a follower of his. In 1817 he completed his studies and, in 1818, passed his exams with distinction. For his work on the subject, Die Struktur und das Leben der Venen he was awarded a prize by the university. In 1818, he probably participated in the founding of the first Freiburg Burschenschaft, having been in Freiburg a member and mentor of Genossenschaft/Verein zur Bearbeitung wissenschaftlicher Gegenstände,[1] from which the Freiburg Burschenschaft developed. When he then went to Vienna for further studies, he was a corresponding member of the Old Freiburg Burschenschaft. In Vienna he also got to know Karl Ludwig Sand through his burschenschaft connexions. In 1819, Sand murdered the poet, August von Kotzebue, Marx was in Vienna on 19 June 1819 for burschenschaft-related activities and was taken into custody for nine months and then released without charge. In 1820 he was awarded his doctorate in medicine in Jena. Thereafter he went to Göttingen, where he worked as an assessor at the Göttingen University Library, received his habilitation in 1822 at the Faculty of Medicine, became a professor extraordinarius in 1826 and a professor ordinarius in 1831. He taught there for the rest of his life, but also had a doctor's practice. In Göttingen he met Heinrich Heine, his discussions about medicine and his treatise, Goettingen in medicinischer, physischer und historischer Hinsicht[2] are mentioned in his travel journal, Die Harzreise.[3] Heine was also treated by Marx in Göttingen.[4]

Honours
  • In 1838 he became a member of the Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen

Publications (selection)
  • Goettingen in medicinischer, physischer und historischer Hinsicht. Göttingen, 1824.
  • De euthanasia medica prolusio. Göttingen, 1826.
  • Allgemeine Krankheitslehre. Göttingen, 1833.
  • Zur Lehre von der Lähmung der untern Gliedmassen. Karlsruhe und Baden, 1838.
  • Ueber Begriff und Bedeutung der schmerzlindernden Mittel. Göttingen, 1851. Google eBook
  • Ueber die Verdienste der Aerzte um das Verschwinden der dämonischen Krankheiten. Göttingen, 1859.
  • Ueber die Beziehungen der darstellenden Kunst zur Heilkunst. Göttingen, 1861.
  • Konrad Victor Schneider und die Katarrhe. Göttingen, 1873.

Literature
  • August Hirsch (1884), "Marx, Karl Friedrich Heinrich", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 20, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 540–541
  • Markwart Michler (1990), "Marx, Karl, Mediziner", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 16, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 327–328; (full text online)
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft. Band I, Teilband 4, Heidelberg 2000, pp. 40–41.
  • Heinrich Schipperges: Gesundheit und Gesellschaft: ein historisch-kritisches Panorama. Berlin, 2003, pp. 80 ff.

References
  1. Karl Gundermann: Die Mitglieder der Alten Freiburger Burschenschaft 1816–1851. Freiburg im Breisgau 1984/2004, p. 6. pdf
  2. Heinrich Heine: Die Harzreise, in: Reisebilder Vol. 1. Hamburg, 1826, p. 117.
  3. Katarzyna Jastal: Körperkonstruktionen in der frühen Prosa Heinrich Heines. Krakau, 2009, p. 76 and pp. 90 ss.
  4. Ulrich Koppitz und Alfons Labisch, Norbert Paul (Hrsg.): Historizität. Erfahrung und Handeln - Geschichte und Medizin. Stuttgart, 2004, p. 143.
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