Anton de Haen

Anton de Haen (born December 8, 1704 in The Hague (Netherlands); † September 3, 1776 in Vienna "on the Wieden ") was a Dutch-Austrian doctor who was appointed as the first director of the medical clinic at the University of Vienna .

Life

De Haen studied medicine in Leiden and qualified as a doctor in his hometown. He ran his own practice and conducted scientific studies. Having by his former classmates Gerard van Swieten , the personal physician of Maria Theresa had been brought from the Netherlands in 1754 to Vienna, he became Professor of the First Medical Clinic of the University of Vienna in the Civil Hospital, which he modeled after his teacher Hermann Boerhaave organized . He had the right to transfer patients from all Viennese hospitals to his clinic for lessons. In the style of his teacher Boerhaave, away from the textbook and towards the patient , bedside teaching was carried out at this clinic. For the first time, this clinic had a research assignment in addition to teaching. After the clinical method of teaching medicine had not been practiced at German universities up to this time, de Haen became a co-founder of the Vienna Medical School . In addition, after van Swieten's death, he took over his position as Maria Theresa's personal physician. As a scientist, de Haen wrote several pamphlets in which he spoke out against various theories such as Albrecht Haller's theory of irritability. He himself attached great importance to patient observation and researched the numerous forms of febrile illnesses. He already used the combined temperature and pulse measurement, thus was one of the pioneers in the diagnostic use of the thermometer, and wrote an 18-volume treatise on the febrile diseases occurring in Vienna (“Ratio medendi in nosocomio practico”) on behalf of van Swietens. He also wrote works on magic, miracles and witchcraft.

In 1972 the Haengasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.

Works

Aletophilorum quorundam Viennensium elucidatio necessaria Epistolae de cicuta . J. Th. Von Trattner, Vindobonae 1766. ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
De magia. JP Kraus, Leipzig 1751, 1774 and 1777.
De epilepsia et convulsionibus. Vienna 1763.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Haen, Anton de . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 7th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1861, pp. 176–178 ( digitized version ).
August Hirsch: Haen, Anton van . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 311-313.
Karl Heinz Tragl : Chronicle of the Vienna hospitals. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77595-9 , p. 48.

Individual evidence

Jump up ↑ Ralph Hermon Major, A History of Medicine , Thomas, 1954, 581
↑ Göttinger Anzeiger (from October 24, 1776) - Otherwise also other information (especially September 4 and September 5).

personal data
SURNAME	Haen, Anton de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 8, 1704
PLACE OF BIRTH	The Hague , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH	uncertain: September 3, 1776
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Jump up ↑ Ralph Hermon Major, A History of Medicine , Thomas, 1954, 581

[2] Göttinger Anzeiger (from October 24, 1776) - Otherwise also other information (especially September 4 and September 5).