Andreas Fackh

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Andreas Fackh , also Andreas Jakob Ritter von Fack (* around 1652; † January 22, 1727 in Vienna ) was an Austrian doctor , court medic and dean of the medical faculty in Vienna.

Life

Andreas Jakob Ritter von Fack studied medicine in Vienna in 1677. He initially applied for a scholarship in vain, but then received a Bittnerianum scholarship in 1678. On August 17, 1682, the medical doctorate took place in Padua , in September 1682 the repetition at the medical faculty in Vienna. On February 12, 1698, he applied for a position as court medicus, which he received in the following months. On September 2, 1703 he became King Charles's first body medic in Spain and was knighted by the Royal Order of the Habitus of Christ in Portugal. On October 1, 1711 he became Imperial Protomedicus of Charles VI. and returned from Spain in February 1712. Also in 1712 he became dean of the medical faculty in Vienna. The integration of the Spanish Hofmedici who had returned to Vienna led to considerable problems. In 1713, in this precedent dispute, a compromise was negotiated with the medical faculty, in which Fack and Pio Nicolo de Garelli were involved.

Pre-professional care

Problems were also caused by the accommodation of the non-medical staff and other staff who had returned from Spain with Fackh. The royal groom Nicolas Funck was hired as a nurse and his wife as a cook. However, this died soon afterwards. The chief steward argued that Funck was an old man who was no longer able to serve. There was also never a male nurse and Funck could not do anything in this position. So Funck finally received an annual pension. From July 1713, Catharina Elisabeth Seelin († 1727 from an incurable "contracture") was officially hired as a nurse for women. During this time there was also a move to house noble boys and ladies-in-waiting with leaves and other infectious diseases and to care for them separately, which made the use of additional nursing staff necessary. These staff also demanded a salary. The beginning of professional care in Austria, which is generally set in 1784 with the establishment of the Vienna General Hospital (AKH) , had its preliminary stage in the time of Andreas Fackh and Catharina Elisabeth Seelin.

Leopoldina

On September 25, 1714 Andreas Fackh with the nickname DEMETRIUS I was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 310 ) in the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian Academy of Natural Scientists , after he had previously made a name for himself as a scholar. Fackh published eight case descriptions in the "Ephemeris" in 1717. In 1725 he became a senior at the medical faculty in Vienna. On September 2, 1725, Fack became Superintendent of the Emericanum Scholarship. Fackh also built an extensive library. After Fack's death in 1727 Giovanni Battista de Garelli, the father of Pio Nicolò de Garelli , took over the office of Protomedicus.

family

Andreas Jakob Ritter von Fack married Anna Maria, born on April 23, 1703. Schleubin (also Släby, Slaby). In his second marriage he married Maria Anna geb. Michlin, who died on May 31, 1726. This marriage resulted in two children, the son Edmund (* 1717) and the daughter Maria Anna (* 1715).

literature

  • Hanß Heinrich Helcher, Academia Leopoldina: Cure of incurable diseases proven by God's blessing and with the help of gold , p. 94: Your graces, Doctor Andreas Fackh ... thank me in letters , printed by Immanuel Tietzen Leipzig 1723.
  • Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 490 digitized
  • Dr. Joh. Nep. Ritter von Raimann (Hrsg.): Medicinische Jahrbücher des Kaiserl. Royal Austrian State , vol. 55, in Braumüller and Seidel Vienna 1846, p. 214.
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 206 (archive.org)
  • Ralf Bröer: Court medicine. Structures of medical care at an early modern princely court using the example of the Viennese imperial court (1650–1750) , habilitation thesis History of Medicine (Chair Wolfgang U. Eckart ), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2006, pp. 94, 95, 97, 141, 142, 277, 287, 499, 713, 714.
  • Marion Mücke and Thomas Schnalke : Briefnetz Leopoldina. The correspondence of the German Academy of Natural Scientists around 1750 , de Gruyter Berlin 2009, p. 616.
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 206 .

Publications

  • Andreas Fack, you. Kays. Maj. Rath and oldest body = Medicus: the last sent old flowers were rightly handed over to me ..., in: Johann Christian Lehmann's perfect flowers = garden in winter, Leipzig in the Großische Handlung 1750, d. January 30, 1717, p. 66.
  • Ephemeris I 7 I 7: here: De Insectis: Cent. V + VI, obs. 73; here: De Aneurismate: Cent. V + VI, obs. 74; here: De Colica: Cent V + VI, obs. 75; here: De Hydrope: Cent V + VI, obs 76; here: De Calculis: Cent V + VI, obs 77; here: De Febribus Malignis: Cent. V + VI, obs. 78; here: De Ichoroso Haemorrhoidum Fluxu: Cent. V + VI, obs 79.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For details on the precedent dispute, see p. Bröer 2006, pp. 358-360.
  2. ↑ Christine R. Auer: Veronica Güttler (1700–1738), successor to Catharina Elisabeth Seelin , in: Hubert Kolling (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for Nursing History “Who was who in nursing history”, Volume 8; hpsmedia Nidda 2018, pp. 88–89.
  3. ↑ Member entry of Andreas Fackh at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 17, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Fackh, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fack, Andreas Jakob Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor, court medic and dean of the medical faculty in Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH around 1652
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1727
Place of death Vienna