Arthur Hruska

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Arturo Hruskas burial site, Gardone Riviera cemetery

Arthur (Arturo) Hruska (born May 10, 1880 in Innsbruck , † January 13, 1971 in Munich ) was an Austrian dentist and botanist .

Life

Arthur was a student of his father Josef and was already involved in dental alloys and metal prostheses in his youth. He completed his training in Belgium, Ireland, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland and the USA. He received his doctorate in Munich in 1906 and completed his studies in Padua in 1913 . He was a surgeon and traumatologist, also a biologist, ethnologist and essayist.

Act

Arthur Hruska dealt with the etiology and therapy of periodontal disease . He described it as "a disease that leads to tissue and enzyme changes through environmental influences and mutations" and viewed it as a characteristic disease of the civilized and consumer-oriented world. He was also the first to describe the therapy.

In 1901 he was appointed to the court in Petersburg. The tsar allowed him to practice his profession all over Russia. However, Hruska preferred to return to Italy. In 1903 an ordination opened and began to transform 10,000 m² (1 ha) of an abandoned vineyard in Gardone on Lake Garda into a garden with streams, ponds and paths. Hruska built various small lakes with water from the nearby springs, he connected the ponds with streams, which he made as naturally as possible. The water kept the garden moist and cool, while the trees protected it from the wind and cold. On September 30, 1903, he married Cornelia Anna Lelsz (Corry) from the Netherlands (born January 14, 1874 in Buiksloot near Amsterdam, † August 23, 1917 in Innsbruck). They had four children.

Like all Austrians, the Hruska family suddenly had to leave Italy with the First World War. They hid their valuables in the caves and under the waterfall in the garden and fled by boat. They later settled in Brixen . The Hruska family received Italian citizenship. Arthur Hruska continued his medical work in plastic surgery and operated on jaw and facial injuries. After the end of the First World War, the house and garden in Gardone Riviera were restored. Hruska has traveled all over the world including the Pyrenees, Himalayas, Tenerife and China. He studied mountain formations, collected plants and crossed Lapland on foot. He now built an alpinum , a rock massif, to allow the plants to thrive in their natural environment. That is why his children called the garden the “ elephant cemetery ”. The garden is lush and green, it is shaded by tall exotic trees: conifers, palms, camphor trees, banana trees, bamboo grass, ferns, agaves, lilies and shrubs can be seen in the jungle, aquatic plants bloom along the streams and around the ponds. The garden has belonged to the Austrian artist André Heller since 1988 . In 2014 he sold it to the Austrian real estate investor Günter Kerbler . The park is open to the public between March and October each year.

Works

  • The stabilization of loosened teeth , Berlin 1912.
  • The bridges , Interlaken 1927.
  • The movement of teeth as a biological problem in human civilization , Berlin 1931.
  • Tooth loosening as a biological problem in the context of human domestication phenomena , Berlin 1931.
  • The tooth transplant , Berlin 1939.
  • 30 years of experience with periodontal therapy , Berlin 1942.
  • Paradentosis of the cave-bear and some hominid fossils , in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Stomatologie 45: 239–246 (1952)
  • Arturo Hruska, Arturo Hruska (jr.), Giovanni Hruska, Kurt Hruska: The incorporated multi-unit prosthesis; the so-called fixed bridge , Munich 1956.

literature

  • Telegraph Weekend Magazine, Places to see. The botanical gardens of gardone, Crystall-Holidays, pp. 1-3.
  • Alpenpost, No. 36, p. 7, September 7, 1957.
  • Tiroler Tageszeitung, No. 351, p. 4, October 30, 1967.
  • Ernesto G. Armani, Aldo L. Cerchiani: Il giardino botanico Arturo Hruska, Milano 1971.
  • Walter Pippke, Ida Pallhuber: Lake Garda, Verona, Trentino. The lake and its urban landscape and history, literature and art, Cologne, DuMont, 1992.
  • Franz Hubmann, The Gardens of Andre Heller, Vienna, Brandstätter, 1996.
  • Franz Daxecker: The dentist who moved mountains. The Innsbruck dentist Dr. Arthur Hruska and the Giardino botanico, in: Tiroler Heimatblätter 1998, pp. 49–51 (1998).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sagen.at/doku/biographien/arthur_hruska.html
  2. ↑ http://www.weltdesgartens.de/reiseziel-gartenkunst/kuenstlergaerten/andre-heller-garten-am-gardasee.html
  3. ↑ Wiener Zeitung : Power and Splendor over Lake Garda , May 10, 2005 (accessed on November 25, 2013)
  4. ^ Nana Claudia Nenzel: Lake Garda . DuMont Reiseverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7701-7224-5 , p. 232 (288 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Hruska, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hruska, Arturo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian dentist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1971
Place of death Munich