Otto Juettner
| Prof. Otto Juettner MD | |||||||
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| Born | 1865 | ||||||
| Died | 1922 | ||||||
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Post Graduate School of Physiological Therapeutics, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA The Berkshire, 628 Elm Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA [1911] | ||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||
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1906.04.24 proposed by D. Randall-MacIver, seconded by Richard B. Marshall
1911.02.07 It was resolved that Messrs E.F. Martin, Paul Radin, R.B.S. Sewell and R.C.J. Swinhoe be struck off the list of Fellows. That Capt. Pope Hennessey be threatened with expulsion. That Messrs F. Eyles, Hewitt, Oman Hadji Johari, E.W. Elkington and Sheldon Ridge be suspended for one year. That Prof. Juettner be threatened with suspension for a year.
1912.06.11 It was resolved that Prof. Otto Juettner, Messrs E. Giblin, W. Sheldon Ridge and Omar Hadji Johari be struck off the list of Fellows
Notes From Elsewhere
Otto Juettner, a medical doctor who essentially founded the study of the history of Cincinnati medicine. Juettner was born near Breslau, Germany, in 1865. He received a fine preparatory education at St. Mathias Gymnasium in Breslau, and the Grand-Ducal Lyceum in Carlsruhe.
When Juettner came to America in 1881, his classical education served him well, because he could not speak much English, and his Jesuit professors at Xavier University were not fluent in German, so he and they communicated in Latin. By the time Juettner graduated from Xavier in 1885, he earned honors in English. He then earned a master of arts from Xavier in 1887, while simultaneously enrolled at the Medical College of Ohio (as the University of Cincinnati medical school was then known) where he earned his M.D. in 1888.
Juettner practiced medicine in Cincinnati, but he mostly wanted to sing. He organized in 1901 a group of UC students into an musical organization called The Stygians, who met in a hall on Elm Street near Washington Park. More than sixty years later, one of those Stygians remembered:
“… a long hall – tables and chairs in its center, flanked on both sides with cross-back support boards, groaning with salami, knock-wurst, wieners, pickles, rye bread, freshly tapped wooden barrels, quarter kegs! Singing, songs of his own composition, German songs, fighting Beere-duels … “
A small book of lyrics, published only for members grew into a 1907 songbook published by the UC Alumni Association, containing “A Varsity Song.”
Perhaps Juettner felt guilty for ignoring his original Alma Mater for, in 1915, he presented Xavier – on the 30th anniversary of his graduating class – with the XU Alma Mater called “St. Xavier for Aye.” (Xavier replaced Juettner’s song some years ago.)
Juettner married Estelle Regina Bode (UC, Class of 1899) in 1913. He continued active practice in Cincinnati, excepting the period from 1915, when he was appointed a lieutenant and later captain in the Medical Reserve Corps. He is known among the medical community today for his monumental 1909 survey of Cincinnati medical history, Daniel Drake and His Followers. In his day, Juettner achieved some fame for regular diatribes against the evils of coffee-drinking. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1922 at the too-young age of 57.
No less a critic than William Howard Taft, proud son of UC and later President then Chief Justice of the United States, opined that Juettner’s “Varsity Song” - now UC’s “Alma Mater” was “the finest, most inspiring college song of any I have ever heard.”
Otto Juettner, a German-born physician, was a noted Cincinnati researcher in physiological therapy and the use of x-rays. He was editor of the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERAPY, founded the Cincinnati Post- graduate School of Physiological Therapeutics in 1903 and spoke to medical groups in New York, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Baltimore. He wrote at least three books: DANIEL DRAKE AND HIS FOLLOWERS, PHYSICAL THERAPEUTIC METHODS IN TREATMENT, and THE MAN HIMSELF: ESSAYS ON THE SEXUAL HYGIENE OF MAN IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. Dr. Juettner was also a gifted musician and composer. He wrote songs for the University of Cincinnati and for Xavier University. He was married to Estella Bode. Her father, August H. Bode, wrote travelogs of Germany and Switzerland, and her brother, Howard D. Bode, had a career in the navy and served on the submarine, U.S.S. K-7, during World War I.
Publications
External Publications
DANIEL DRAKE AND HIS FOLLOWERS, PHYSICAL THERAPEUTIC METHODS IN TREATMENT, and THE MAN HIMSELF: ESSAYS ON THE SEXUAL HYGIENE OF MAN IN HEALTH AND DISEASE.
