Jakob Heine (* 16 April 1800 in loud brook, Black Forest; "† 12 November 1879 in CAN place) was a physician and discoverer of the spinalen child paralysis.

Life and work

A latedestined becomes a physician

Jakob Heine is born on 16 April 1800 as a son of a restaurant operator/barkeeper and a sacristan in loud brook. Against the desire of the father it wants to become ministers and takes as in Rottweil the maturity examination. it goes to 1823 to peppering castle, where its uncle Johann George Heine operates an orthopedic institute. Jakob Heine changes to the medicine and locks after four years 1827 with a thesis.

Physician and institute leader in CAN place

Jakob leaves 1829 peppering castle and opens in CAN place (with Stuttgart) a specialist practice as an orthopedist. It is so successful, it already 1830 - thus as one - the honour citizen of the city CAN place is appointed. In a particularly acquired and developed house Heine establishes the first orthopedic institute on soil, in which he treats soon patients out completely Europe. Its special field are backbone curvatures, becoming lumpy feet and paralyses of the arms and legs. Apart from the orthopedic treatment with apparatuses it sets mineral waters also on gymnastic and baths in the Cannstatter (today bath CAN place). One of the children from the 1831 closed marriage with Henriette Ludovike Camerer (1807-1884) is Carl William Heine (1838-1877), the one of the most important European surgeons 19. Century becomes. Since 1854 Jakob Heine carries the title of nobility as carrier of the medal of the crown.

The discovery of the spinalen child paralysis

Already as Assistenzarzt in peppering castle Heine is interested in illnesses of the joints and bones. In CAN place it researches in this area further and publishes 1840 a book with the title observations concerning paralysis conditions of the lower extremities and their treatment. Which it describes, it calls child paralysis in the second edition of 1860 Spinale. Thus Jakob Heine of the discoverers of this illness is and with good reason in the Polio resounds to OF Fame in warm jumps (Georgia) with a honoured. The Swedish physician and researcher OSCAR Medin (1847-1927), which the epidemic character the illness recognize, ties to the realizations Heines. Therefore the further designation of the child paralysis than Heine Medin illness agitates beside Poliomyelits.

The last years

1865 go to Jakob Heine into the retirement. Since he does not find a successor, this is also end of the orthopedic institute. Heine dies on 12 November 1879 and at the Uff Kirchhof in CAN place is buried. In its place of birth loud brook is dedicated to him 1971 a Gedenktafel (together with its uncle Johann George).

Literature

• Hans Hekler: Jakob Heine. By the king ennobled and in all world honoured. In: (contributions to the history of the city and the space shank Schramberg), number 10, Schramberg 1990 (on-line version)
• Heinz Hansen: The orthopedist family Heine. Life and working of the individual family members in the indication of an important German family tradition of the nineteenth century. Thesis, Dresden 1993

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