title: [Demise of the wound physician vocation exemplified by the political representative Arnold Schlegel (1850-1924)].
abstract: The name of Arnold Schlegel stands for a dazzling and complex personality. After being apprenticed to a barber surgeon in Württemberg, he spent about four decades in Switzerland working as an innkeeper. Yet, Schlegel distinguished himself as one of the leading representatives of the last non-academic surgeons in Württemberg. In contrast to most of his surgical colleagues, most of Schlegel's vocational activities are documented. This study is based on unpublished documents of different archives of Württemberg and Switzerland. The aim of the study is to illuminate the life of Arnold Schlegel and, in view of his policy, to illustrate the trying circumstances of contemporary barber surgery.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Würzburg.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D019024:Barber Surgeons / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D013557:Switzerland
vernacular_title: Die Agonie des wundärztlichen Berufsstandes am Beispiel des Standespolitikers Arnold Schlegel (1850-1924).