Moritz Auspitz

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Moritz Auspitz (* 1803 in Nikolsburg (Mikulov) ; † March 2, 1880 in Vienna ) was an Austrian , Jewish surgeon and surgeon .

biography

Moritz Auspitz came from the Auspitz family , which was already based in the Moravian Nikolsburg in the middle of the 17th century . In 1831, when cholera broke out in the Austrian monarchy, he was one of the first to be emitted by the kk government in the province, suffered the epidemic in various badly affected places in Moravia and wrote a treatise on the pathology and therapy of the disease. He then settled in his place of birth as a general practitioner before moving to Vienna in 1840. There he took a job at the Jewish hospital in Vienna to give his sons a better education. He was in Mikulov patron of surgery , now he made in addition to working his graduation to the doctor to acquire. He was an obstetrician and ophthalmologist , for several years a secondary surgeon, in order to take over the position of primary surgeon at the Israelite Hospital in Rossau after 1855 .

During the siege of Vienna from October 23 to 31, 1848, he took over the wounded ward of the emergency hospital built in the convict building of the university , and distinguished himself as a courageous doctor. During the fighting, the Austro-Hungarian civil servant Anton Staffer was so abused by butting that he had to be brought to the temporary hospital, bleeding from several gaping head wounds. While the man was being bandaged, an officer of the "Academic Legion" broke into the sickroom with a drawn sword and eight guards with a fallen bayonet to set a cautionary example. Moriz Auspitz stood in the way of the men and made it unmistakably clear to them that no armed man was allowed to enter the hospital and that lynching was much less common . He was able to resolve the situation and saved the innocent man.

He then used the privileges that he received to make up for the studies and exams that were still missing in order to obtain a doctorate . On May 19, 1854 doctorate Auspitz at the Vienna University of Doctor of Medicine . On February 17, 1857 he was accepted as a member by the doctoral college of the medical faculty. In addition to his position as a surgeon at the hospital, he ran a private practice until a few weeks before his death. He was buried on March 4, 1880 in the Vienna Central Cemetery , grave T1 / 6/6/35.

His sons were the dermatologist Heinrich Auspitz (* September 2, 1835 in Nikolsburg; † May 23, 1886) and the Imperial and Royal Major General and writer Leopold Auspitz (* December 5, 1838; † February 23, 1907).

plant

  • Pathology and therapy of cholera

Honors

swell

  • Leopold Hopfgartner: Communications from the Vienna Medical Doctoren College , VI. Volume, Verlag des Collgium Wien 1880, p. 68
  • Václav Jiří Dundr: Memorandum on the Vienna October Revolution , Vienna, 1848, p. 740

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Society of Doctors in Vienna : Journal of the KK Society of Doctors in Vienna, 12th year, Carl Gerold's son Vienna 1856, p. 68
  2. ↑ JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry - Austria
  3. ↑ Erika Weinzierl, Rudolf G. Ardelt, Wolfgang Huber (DDr.), Anton Staudinger: Suppression and Emancipation: Festschrift for Erika Weinzierl on her 60th birthday, Geyer edition 1985, ISBN 3-8509-0119-X , p. 70ff
  4. ^ Society of Doctors in Vienna : Journal of the KK Society of Doctors in Vienna, 22nd year, Carl Gerold's son Vienna 1866, p. 491
personal data
SURNAME Auspitz, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Nikolsburg (Mikulov)
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1880
Place of death Vienna