Andreas Jeitteles

Andreas Jeitteles

Andreas Jeitteles (born November 24, 1799 in Prague ; † 1878 ) was a physician, writer and politician.

Life and family

Andreas Ludwig Jeitteles came from a German-speaking Jewish family of scholars from Bohemia who produced numerous scientists and writers in the 18th and 19th centuries, e. B. the journalist and narrator Ignaz Jeitteles (1783–1843) and the comedy poet and doctor Alois Jeitteles . His sons, the Germanist Adalbert (1831–1908) and the zoologist Ludwig Jeitteles (1830–1883) were well-known scholars.

Andreas Jeitteles studied medicine at the Universities of Vienna and Graz and completed his studies in 1825 with a doctorate in medicine. med. from.

Scientific and political career

After completing his studies, he became a prosector at the anatomical department of the University of Vienna in 1829 , and in 1835 he moved to the medical faculty of the University of Olomouc , where he was elected rector for the years 1841/2. When the revolution broke out in 1848, he was nominated and elected for the constituency of Olomouc / Moravia as a candidate for the Frankfurt National Assembly. He took his seat in Frankfurt on May 20, 1848 and initially remained non-attached. But he soon joined the “ March Association ” faction , which included many well-known MPs (e.g. Ludwig Feuerbach and Ferdinand Freiligrath ) who campaigned, left-wing liberal, for democratic freedom and fundamental rights. Disappointed about the failure of these efforts and the beginning of the counter-revolution in Prussia and Austria, he resigned on January 25, 1849.

Literary endeavors

Andreas Jeitteles not only published scientific works, but was also fruitful as a fiction writer, albeit under the pseudonym Justus Frey, under whom he wrote as a poet and dramatist.

Works

Scientific writings

• Elements of anthropophysiology from the point of view of advanced science, 1838.
• Also a word about camphor. In: Med. Jahrbuch des kk Österr. State, Volume 22, pp. 105 f., 1840.
• Call for the establishment of a comparative psychology and zoo psychology. In: Med. Jahrbuch des kk Österr. State, Volume 22, pp. 177 f., 1840.
• History of reflex movements: In Prague's quarterly journal for practical medicine, 1858.
• Does bone syphilis exist or are the bone disorders that occur in syphilis a product of mercury use? 1862.

Fiction

• Seals, 2 volumes, published by A. Jeitteles in 1894
• Collected seals, published in 1902 by A. Jeitteles

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Jeitteles, Andreas Ludwig Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1863, pp. 119–121 ( digitized version ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Jeitteles, Ludwig . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 127 ( digital copy ).
• Bernhard Münz:  Jeitteles, Andreas Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 643-647.
• Jeitteles, Andreas Ludwig. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 94.
• Heinz Rieder:  Jeiteles, Aaron, since 1828 Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 387 f. ( Digitized version ).

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