Johann George Heine (* 3 April 1771 in loud brook, Black Forest; "† 7 September 1838 in Scheveningen) was and physician. It is considered as a founder of the in Germany.

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Heine is born on 3 April 1771 in loud brook in the Black Forest as a son of a Bierbrauers. It learned in handicraft of the Messerschmieds and goes in the following years on journey, which leads it to Esslingen, Mannheim and Strasbourg. Finally it leaves South Germany and is from 1794 to 1798 in Berlin, where it has surgeon Caspar of filter old contact with Barthel of filter old, the son of the In May 1798 Heine resettled after peppering castle and becomes Instrumentenmacher for the Julius Maximilians university. He marries the Anna and has two children Anna (* 1801) and Joseph Heine (*1803), which becomes later an important physician in the Pfalz.

Own workshop - own Institut

Soon Heine has its own workshop, in which prostheses, Streckbetten, wheelchairs and further orthopedic aids are manufactured and offered for the selling. 1807 publish Heine a "“systematic listing of surgical instruments, bandages and machines"” as catalog for the medical profession. Its further publications find acknowledgment rapid at the medical professional world. Heine rejects a call to Berlin, it remains in peppering mountain and receives from the hand of the Bavarian Crown Prince the "“golden civil earnings/service medal ",1816 open Johann George Heine in the former step Hans monastery the first orthopedic institute on German soil, which later admits Karolinen institute (designated after the Bavarian queen Karoline) far away under the name becomes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe knows the publications Heines and takes up it to its library. He becomes acquainted with the "“operating surgeon Heine"” at the board of the Grand Duke Karl August and is in such a way done of him that he in-loads him into his house to Weimar woman plan. The successful is long a physician become, although without classical medical knowledge. As Heine begins to want to heal also non-orthopedic physical defects comes it to the conflict with the medical profession, and those good co-operation for many decades is terminated.

The dark years

1829 hand over to Heine Institut at his nephew Bernhard Heine and move to Holland. It acquires houses for the establishment of institutes into Brussels and the Hague. Between the Hague and Scheveningen he establishes an institute for seaside resort, Heine recognizes the value of the medical bath, beside the sets he the Balneologie. When he tries, the Cholera with mustard flour baths to heal, he comes again into conflict with the school medicine. Also the Dutch physicians send no more patients to it. From Bavaria Heine reaches the message that the practice of the is forbidden to him. It gotten sick at the chest water craze and dies on 7 September 1838 in Scheveningen.Er in peppering castle is buried, there it 1841 a large monument established. In its homeland municipality loud brook gives it a Gedenktafel, which was attached 1971 at the church wall.

See also

• Heine - as surname

Literature:

• Hekler, Hans: Johann George Heine, a loud brook, that Goethe admired number 8, Schramberg in (contributions to the history of the city and the space shank Schramberg) 1988 (also on-line, see Related links)
• Hansen, Heinz: The orthopedist family Heine - lives and working of the individual family members in the indication of an important German family tradition of the nineteenth century, thesis, Dresden 1993
• Schwarzmann Schafhauser, Doris: In the area of conflict between Medikasterei and "“more scientifically"” medicine - Johann George Heine and the academic beginnings of the peppering castle 1994

Related links

• Older literature here
• Detailed biography with pictures here

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