Feldscher

[Karmi-Sempai]

It means "barber surgeon" from Russian. It's a story I thought of, and it includes Jack the Ripper and has some basis on the murders. It's basically a detective story.

Sorry. I'm a little shy when it comes to talking about my works.

[j.r-ahde]

Hello K.-S!

C'mon, I know one person being very shy outside these boards too!

All the best
Jukka

[kid4112]

She's not very used to these kinds of forums...

[kid4112]

Well, anyway, Karmi, your blog seems to be doing pretty well. I hope other people aside from your friends will actually read it.

[Suzi]

Interesting.....am I missing something here????

[Suzi]

Hi- Feldsher according to Chambers describes it as:-In Russia and parts of Eastern Europe-- a partly trained person who practices medicine;one who assists a doctor,esp. on the battlefield [Russ fel'dsher- Ger feldscher,army surgeon]

Suz x

[kid4112]

Yeah, in modern use. Feldscher used to be a term for a barber surgeon in the Victorian London era.

[The Good Michael]

Feldscher was not a Victorian term for Barber Surgeon.

Feldscher obviously is of German origin. Some barber surgeons became Feldschers, but they didn't have the same status. I think barber surgeons ended about 1850, but I can't remember exactly. This is England's barber surgeons I'm talking about. The Feldscher ended in Prussia about 1800, I believe, but continued in Eastern Russia, and still exist today. They are pretty low in the echelon of military medicine.

There is an online book about a Feldscher that worked until 1738 that I am currently reading. It is in German and in old script, and that script is blurry, but I will muddle through it. I don't think it will clear up any JTR stuff, but it is interesting.

Mike

[chrisjd]

Hi,
the name comes from "Feldscherer":
"Feld" meaning (battle)field
"Scherer" meaning barber.

Christian

[Suzi]

Hi Christian-

See- Chambers is NEVER wrong!!!

Love
Suz x

[Sam Flynn]

Some press cuttings

The Times, 3rd April, 1925. RUSSIAN WRITERS IN EXILE - IVAN BUNIN

Bunin is a bright-faced, slightly-built man of middle years; he looks as if he had lived with the moujiks a good deal, and has a reflection of the non-working peasant type - the village feldscher perhaps.


The Times, 15th May, 1956. OBITUARY - MR. A.A. FADEYEV, RUSSIAN NOVELIST AND CRITIC

Born near Moscow in 1901, the son of a feldscher (a semi-trained medical assistant), Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev passed his childhood in Vilna and his youth in the Urals.


The Times, 20th August, 1920. THE MURDER OF THE TSAR: THE CHIEF GAOLER

The origins of Yurofsky have been fully investigated. His parents and relatives -- all poor Jews -- remained in Siberia after the murder and his chief accomplices had fled from Ekaterinburg. He had been a watchmaker at Tomsk, scarcely able to make ends meet. He is next heard of in Ekaterinburg as a photographic dealer. When war came, he evaded service in the trenches by qualifying as a red-cross assistant (feldscher) and remained in Ekaterinburg.

[Suzi]

Blimey Feldscher is well....not one down in todays Telegraph crossy!!
BUT that's what it means!!!