Andreas Buberl

Andreas Buberl (born November 29, 1832 in Königsberg an der Eger , † July 3, 1907 in Franzensbad ) was a military doctor, health resort doctor and ethnography researcher in the Egerland .

Origin and family

Andreas Buberl was a son of Josef Buberl, landowner and innkeeper in Königsberg an der Eger, a small town about 10 km northeast of Eger ( Cheb ) and his wife Rosina, née Altnöder, from the neighboring Upper Palatinate. He had two sons from his marriage to Franziska Cartellieri from Franzensbad in 1867: Leonhard Buberl (born November 5, 1868 in Franzensbad; † August 17, 1927), medical advisor in Vienna, chairman of the Egerland regional team in Vienna, and Friedrich (Fritz) Buberl (* September 12, 1884 in Franzensbad; † January 12, 1968 in Vienna), graduate engineer, councilor, director of the Austrian main mint.

biography

As a graduate of the high school in Eger ( Cheb ) in West Bohemia, Andreas Buberl became a pupil of the Collegium-Medico-Chirurgicum-Josephinum in Vienna. After receiving his doctorate in medicine, he was senior physician in the hospital of the Austrian garrison in Mantua in Lombardy . In the German War of 1866, in which Prussia fought against Austria and its allies for supremacy in Central Europe, he was killed as a regimental doctor in one of the battles in northern Bohemia and was taken to the garrison hospital of the Theresienstadt fortress ( Terezín ). In 1867 he married Franziska Cartellieri, a daughter of the well doctor Paul Cartellieri in Franzensbad near Eger in western Bohemia and became a spa doctor in Franzensbad ( Františkovy Lázně ). His patients included members of the European aristocracy and the Austrian Imperial House of Habsburg-Lothringen .

Act

In addition to his work as a spa doctor, Andreas Buberl compiled a collection of folk songs from the Egerland , was a member of the Egerland Association (Egerländer Landsmannschaft) in Vienna, a member of the municipal committee in Franzensbad, a city councilor from 1882 to 1887 and a member of the Bohemian state parliament in 1890.

Honors

• Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order
• Holder of the Spanish Order of Don Carlos III.
• Honorary citizen of the city of Cheb and the city of Franzensbad ( Františkovy Lázně )

Relatives from Königsberg an der Eger

• Caspar Buberl (born September 22, 1832 in Königsberg an der Eger, † August 22, 1899 in New York). His father Simon Buberl, a house weaver and nativity scene carver, was a brother of the innkeeper Josef Buberl, the father of the spa doctor Andreas Buberl. Kaspar Buberl learned the craft of stonemason, emigrated to North America in 1852, became a sculptor and teacher at an art school. Working in his own atelier, he received notable orders. His best-known art-historical works are the relief on the memorial of the 20th President of the United States of America, James A. Garfield, who was assassinated in 1881 in Cleveland / Ohio, the frieze of the National Building Museum in Washington with depictions from the American Civil War and the frieze of the Hartford memorial . His brother is
• Hans Buberl (born March 8, 1842 in Königsberg an der Eger, † July 31, 1894 in Vienna), specialist in iron constructions with training in Vienna and Prague; Designer and site manager for one of the Vienna Danube bridges and the Elbe bridge in ( Aussig ) in northern Bohemia. In 1881 he founded the Egerländer Association (Egerländer Landsmannschaft) in Vienna and headed it for years.

literature

• Bohemia - German newspaper of July 5, 1907.
• Our Egerland year 1907, p. 90.
• Egerer yearbook. Calendar for Egerland and its friends 38, 1908, p. 225 ff.
• Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries . Vol. 1, Munich, Oldenbourg 1974, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 158.
• Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former government district of Eger . Volume 1 (A – M) Männedorf / ZH 1985, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , pp. 92 and 93, p. 95 Illustrations with works by the sculptor Caspar Buberl.