Andreas Ignaz Wawruch

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Andreas Ignaz Wawruch

Andreas Ignaz Wawruch (* 1782 in Niemtschitz an der Hanna ; † March 20, 1842 in Vienna ) was an Austrian doctor and university professor .

Life

Wawruch studied medicine at the University of Prague . At the end of 1810 he became an assistant doctor at the Vienna University Clinic and at the same time a supplier of pathology and drug theory. In 1812 he was with the dissertation inaugurale Tentamen philologico-medicum sistens Antiquitates typhi contagiosi at the University of Vienna to Dr. med. doctorate , shortly afterwards he completed his habilitation there.

In 1812, Warwuch accepted an appointment as professor of medicine at the University of Prague. In 1819 he followed another call as professor of medicine at the University of Vienna and the medical clinic for surgeons. In Vienna he became one of Ludwig van Beethoven's doctors . He was considered a good cellist and great admirer of the musician and accompanied him medically until his death. In 1832 he was also co-editor of the series Medicinische Jahrbuch des kk Österreichische Staat . He was also a member of the Imperial Society of Physicians in Vienna .

Works (selection)

  • De priscorum Graeciae ac Latii medicorum studio restaurando , 1808.
  • Tentamen inaugurale philologico-medicum sistens antiquitates typhi contagiosi , Brno 1812.
  • Observationes clinicae Taeniam (Solium) concernentes , Beck, Vienna 1833.
  • Disquisitio medica cholerae cujus mentio in sacris bibliis occurrit , Beck, Vienna 1833.
  • Practical monograph on tapeworm disease explained through 206 cases , Gerold, Vienna 1844 (digitized version) .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Incorrectly referred to as Andreas Johann Wawruch in the BLKÖ .
  2. Medical review of L. van Beethoven's last epoch . In: Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunst, Literatur, Theater und Mode , Vienna No. 86, April 30, 1842, pp. 681–685.