Carl Dietrich Christoph von Reyher
Carl Dietrich Christoph von Reyher (in Russian literature Karl Karlowitsch Reyer (Russian Карл Карлович Рейер); b. October 23jul. / November 4, 1846greg. in Riga; † December 30, 1890jul. / January 11, 1891greg. in St. Petersburg) was a German-Baltic-Russian surgeon.[1]
| Dr Carl Dietrich Christoph von Reyher | |
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| Born | Carl Dietrich Christoph von Reyher November 4, 1846 Riga |
| 💀Died | December 30, 1890 St. PetersburgDecember 30, 1890 |
| Cause of death | Hunting accident |
| Other names | Karl Karlowitsch Reyer |
| 💼 Occupation | Doctor |
| Family | von Reyher |
Life[edit]
Carl von Reyher, son of the clerk at the Livonian Court Karl Christopher von Reyher and the teacher Maria Helena Mathilde von Reyher née Ulmann, attended the Russian Governorate Grammar School, graduating in 1865. He then studied medicine at the University of Dorpat, receiving his medical diploma in 1870. While still a student, he specialized in surgery and assisted Georg von Adelmann and Ernst von Bergmann in operations. He also assisted in operations at the Riga Hospital. During his education he traveled abroad several times at state expense for study purposes. In England he learned about antiseptic surgery.
After graduation, Reyher attended the universities of Berlin, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Prague, and others at his own expense. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, he worked in Prussian hospitals and became a field physician in the Prussian IX Army Corps. He participated in the battles of Weissenburg, Wörth, and Gravelotte. He worked in Mannheim and in Nancy with Carl Wilhelm von Heine, who was in charge of a Württemberg field hospital there. He obtained information on antiseptic wound treatment from Joseph Lister at the University of Edinburgh in 1873 and from Richard von Volkmann at the University of Halle.
In Dorpat, Reyher was Ernst von Bergmann's assistant in the Surgical Clinic of the University of Dorpat from 1871 and was awarded a doctorate in medical sciences in 1872 with his dissertation Zur Pathologie und Therapie der Cholera (13 Blood Transfusions). In the same year he was briefly a physician in the cholera department of the Riga Military Host Hospital. In 1874 he became a private lecturer of surgery in Dorpat and in 1877 a state lecturer.
In the Serbian-Turkish War he worked in a field hospital in Svilajnac in 1876, followed by service in the Russo-Turkish War in 1877-1878. He became a Surgical Advisor to the Caucasus Army and was present at the bombardment of Kars. During this time, through his work in the Red Cross, he successfully brought the antiseptic method of treatment to general application. At the International Medical Congress in 1881, he became a member of the Military Medicine Committee.
From 1878 Reyher was consultant surgeon of the Nikolai Military Hospital in St. Petersburg. In 1883 he became chief surgeon of the St. Petersburg Semyonovskoye-Alexandrovskoye Military Hospital of the Semyonovskoye Leibard Regiment and a member of the Military Medical Science Committee. In addition, he directed other hospitals and military hospitals in St. Petersburg, established first-aid courses, and gave courses in gynecology. He was also a consultant to the Duchess of Edinburgh Field Nurses School. He attended the International Medical Congress in Washington, D.C., in 1887 and was an honorary member of the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia.
In 1890, Reyher received an appointment to the chair of Clinical Surgery at the University of Kiev. However, he died shortly thereafter as a result of a hunting accident near St. Petersburg. He was buried in the German Lutheran Smolensk Cemetery on the Smolenka River in St. Petersburg.
Books[edit]
- Über Veränderung der Gelenke bei dauernder Ruhe (Deutsch. Zeitschr. f. Chir.)
- On the cartilages and synovial membranes of the joints (Journ. of Anat. and Physiol.)
- Über Laryngostrictur, ihre Heilung und den künstlichen Kehlkopf (Verhandl. d. Deutsch. Gesellsch. f. Chir.)
- Studien über die Entwicklung der Extremitäten des Menschen und besonders der Gelenkflächen (zusammen mit Wilhelm Henke, Protokolle der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, III, 1874)
- Antiseptische und offene Wundenbehandlung (Langenbeck-Archiv, XIX)
- Hydrocölenschnitt (St. Petersb. med. Wochenschr., 1875)
- Zur Behandlung der Pseudarthrosen (St. Petersb. med. Wochenschr., 1876)
- Zur Laryngotomie und Kehlkopfexstirpation (St. Petersb. med. Wochenschr., 1876)
- Antiseptische Wundbehandlung in der Kriegschirurgie (Sammlung klin. Vorträge Richard von Volkmanns, Nr. 142–143)
References[edit]
- ↑ "BBLD - Reyher, Carl (Karlovič) Dietrich Christoph v. (1846-1890)". Unknown parameter
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