Niemieccy i żydowscy lekarze w Poznaniu w latach 1793–1866
German and Jewish physicians in Poznań, 1793–1866

Summary/Abstract: The article is a prosopographical portrait of the German and Jewish doctors practising in Poznań from 1793–1866, e.g., from the decision of the Prussian authorities to establish a Medical Board (Collegium Medicum et Sanitatis) to the last cholera epidemic that devastated the city’s population. Throughout the nineteenth century, Germans and Jews constituted 70–80% of doctors practising in Poznań. They were the pillar of sanitary reforms; and in 1831, 1837, 1848, 1852 as well as 1866, they bore the responsibility for the fight against cholera epidemics. The fate of the German and Jewish doctors was reconstructed on the basis of autobiographies included in doctoral dissertations, reports on the course of the cholera epidemics in Poznań, official address books, nineteenth-century bibliographies, and Prussian registers of civil and military service. It was proven that the community of the non-Polish doctors was a miniature of the social changes taking place in Poznań in 1793–1866.

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