Anton von Störck

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Anton Freiherr von Störck (born February 21, 1731 in Saulgau (Baden-Württemberg), † February 11, 1803 in Vienna ) was an Austrian physician and university professor. He was the personal physician of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa .

Anton Freiherr von Störck

Life

Anton Storck was in the then front-Austrian born Saulgau in Upper Swabia, lost his parents early, came to Vienna and was brought up as an orphan in a workhouse. There he also attended high school and studied philosophy. He completed this course in 1752 when he obtained his master's degree. He then studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1757 under his mentor Gerard van Swieten .

An activity as a general practitioner followed, and his healing successes quickly became known in Vienna. On June 30, 1758, he became the “first physicus” of the municipal pension institution for impoverished citizens on Währinger Strasse in Vienna, the so-called Bäckenhäusel . Störck's reputation continued to grow, and at the age of 29 he achieved the position of " kk Leibmedicus" in 1760 , in which he repeatedly accompanied the emperor and Habsburg prince on trips. In 1764 he traveled with Emperor Franz I Stephan and the Archduke Joseph and Leopold to the coronation of Joseph in Frankfurt am Main , and in 1769 to Parma as the medical companion of Archduchess Maria Amalia .

Maria Theresa chose him as the treating doctor when she was attacked by smallpox in 1767 and appointed him her personal physician after her healing.

On February 2, 1771, he became assessor of the Imperial and Royal Court Commission for Study and Book Revisions, and on June 27, he became second president and director of the medical faculty of the Vienna University. On July 1, 1771 he was appointed "Protomedicus", in 1772 he was appointed "First Personal Physician" with the title of Imperial Court Councilor. In 1772 he drafted a study plan for the medical faculty (published in 1775), in which he called for a propaedeutic course and established a certain order of the subjects to be studied. His university career was crowned by his appointment as dean of the medical faculty in 1766 and as "Rector magnificus" of the Vienna University in 1768.

During his career he published numerous medical treatises. In particular, his work on pharmacology (which was originally written in Latin) caused a sensation throughout Europe and was translated into German and French. Störck extensively researched the effects of medicinal plants such as the water hemlock ( Cicuta virosa ), the autumn crocus ( Colchicum autumnale ) and the thorn apple ( Datura stramonium ) on the basis of detailed studies on the healthy and the sick. His investigations into the effects of plant extracts on healthy people can be regarded as a forerunner of homeopathic drug testing , since, according to Tischner , symptoms of poisoning and testing (active) symptoms have already been recorded in healthy people. Störck's suggestion to use Stramonium for mental illness was presumably successfully used by Hahnemann 30 years later in his first 'homeopathic' patient in 1792, the secret Klockenbring law firm from Hanover. Störck's writings must have been known to him, since he had studied for nine months with one of his successors in Vienna, Joseph von Quarin , in close association with him. For example, he was one of the few students who were allowed to accompany the court doctor to private consultations. Many of the remedies examined by Störck (see above) are still an essential part of the homeopathic materia medica , including a. Pulsatilla pratensis, pasque flower, (Datura) Stramonium , Hyoscyamus , Aconitum or Colchicum (see literature).

His younger brother Matthäus Störck (1739-1815) was also a physician and was the personal physician of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who later became Emperor Leopold II . He, too, was raised to the baron status in 1779. The older brother Melchior (1721–1756) was professor of anatomy at the University of Vienna.

Honors

On April 22, 1775, Störck was admitted to the Austrian barons and on June 22, 1777 to the Lower Austrian gentry. He was a member and honorary member of numerous scientific societies in Europe. In 1773 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

The plant genus Stoerkia Crantz from the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae) is named after Störck .

In 1909, Anton-Störck-Gasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after the doctor. In Störck's birthplace Saulgau , the high school bears his name.

Publications

Latin editions

  • Dissertatio inauguralis medica de conceptu, partu naturali, difficili et praeternaturali , Vienna 1757
  • Annus medicus primus et secundus, quo sistuntur observationes circa morbos acutos et chronicos, adjiciunturque eorum curationes et quaedam anatomicae cadaverum sectiones , Vienna 1759
  • Tractatus medicus cum diversis experimentis de Cicuta , Lausanne 176X
  • Antonii Störck Libellus. Trattner, Vindobonae ( digitized edition )
    • 1. ..., quo demonstration : cicutam non solum usu interno tutissime exhiberi, sed et esse simul remedium valde utile in multis morbis, qui hucusque curatu impossibles dicebantur. 1760
    • 2. ..., quo confirmatur : cicutam non solum usu interno tutissime exhiberi, sed et esse simul remedium valde utile in multis morbis, qui hucusque curatu impossibles dicebantur. 1761
  • Antonii Störck Supplementum necessarium de cicuta . Trattner, Vindobonae 1761 ( digitized edition )
  • Antonii Störck Libellus, quo demonstratur: Stramonium, hyosciamum, aconitum non solum tuto posse exhiberi usu interno hominibus, verum et ea esse remedia in multis morbis maxime salutifera: iunguntur simul harum plantarum imagines aere excusae . Trattner, Vindobonae 1762 ( digitized edition )
  • Libellus, quo demonstratur: Colchici autumnalis radicem non solum tuto posse exhiberi hominibus, sed et ejus usu interno curari quandoquoque morbos difficilimos, qui aliis remediis non cedunt , Vienna 1763
  • Libellus, quo demonstratur: Herbam ceteribus dictam flammulam Jovis, posse tuto et magna cum utilitate exhiberi aegrotantibus , Vienna 1769
  • Instituta facultatis med. Vindobonensis , Vienna 1775
  • Praecepta medico practica in usum chirurgorum castrensium et ruralium ditionum austriacarum , translation by JM Schosulan, 2 volumes, Vienna 1776
  • Libellus, quo continuantur experimenta et observationes circa nova sua medicamenta , Vienna 1765
  • Libellus de usu medico Pulsatillae nigricantis , Vienna 1771
  • Praecepta medico-practica in usum chirurgorum castrensium et ruralium ditionum Austriacarum . 2. On. - Hartmann, Viennae Austriae 1784 ( digitized edition )
  • Pharmacopoea Austriaco-provincialis . de Trattner, Vienna 1774 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Pharmacopoea Austriaco-provincialis . de Trattner, Vienna 2nd edition 1775 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

German editions

  • General instructions for the prevention as well as for the cure of Hundswuth , Vienna 1783
  • Treatise that the thorn apple, rabid and iron hat can not only be safely given to people internally, but are also healing agents in many external diseases , from the Latin by G. Neuhofer, Augsburg 1763
  • Treatise on the safe use and usability of the thorn apple, henbane and iron hat , from the Latin by S. Schinz, Zurich 1763
  • Observations on the use and usability of hemlock , from Latin, Vienna 1764
  • Observations of the use and usability of hemlock , from the Latin by Georg Ludwig Rumpelt, 3 parts, Dresden 1765
  • Anton Störk's two treatises, on the benefits and uses of the stinging herb, or the upright burning clematis, and the wise diptam, or escher root: from the Latin; together with two copper plates (from Latin), Felßecker, Frankfurt 1769 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
  • Treatise on the grafting of children's leaves , Nuremberg 1771
  • Treatise on the healing use of the pasque flower , Nuremberg 1771
  • Medical volumes in which observations on acute and chronic diseases etc. are included , Vienna 1774
  • Medical and practical lessons for field and land surgeons in the Austrian states. 2 volumes, Vienna 1776 ( digitized edition )

Many of Störck's works also appeared in French translation.

English translations

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Anton Frhr. von Störck at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Störck, Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Störck, Anton Freiherr von; Störk, Anton Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian medic
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH Saulgau
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1803
Place of death Vienna