Christoph Hartung

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Lithograph by Christoph Hartung, made in 1833 by Angelo Magni, Milan

Christoph Hartung (born May 11, 1779 in Römhild ; † June 5, 1853 in Baden near Vienna ) was a German-Austrian doctor and pioneer of homeopathy.

Life

Christoph Hartung with his family, a lithograph by Angelo Magni, 1836, Milan

Hartung, from a family that has lived in Römhild or Westenfeld in southern Thuringia for centuries , and from which the Herzogl. Saxon. Meining. Master builder Johann Caspar Hartung (1622–1725) was born and joined the military medical service of the Austrian Army in Vienna in 1798. From 1798 to 1800 and from 1810 to 1812 Christoph Hartung studied at the state expense at the Imperial Josephine Medical-Surgical Military Academy Josephinum and received his doctorate on August 11, 1812. He rejected the appointment to the chair of anatomy proposed by the Josephinum and instead began a career in the field of military medicine. In 1813 he was given preferential promotion by handwriting from Emperor Franz I of Austria . From 1819 to 1826 he studied homeopathy as a student of Samuel Hahnemann and became a member of the Hahnemann drug examination committee. As a result of his official positions, he brought homeopathy to Salzburg , Veneto and Lombardy . In 1837 he was appointed Imperial-Royal Councilor and chief military doctor of the provinces of Lombardy and Veneto, which led to the supervision of doctors and all hospitals in this region. In 1839 Hartung was a member and lecturer of the large assembly of the Central Association of German Homeopathic Doctors in Leipzig. In 1841, the homeopathic healing of Field Marshal Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz by Hartung followed Europe-wide sensation .

Portrait medal from 1843 based on a design by Francesco Broggi, Milan

For his services to homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann from Paris sent Christoph Hartung his bronze portrait bust and his carnelian ring with Hahnemann's portrait. The representation of Lombardy donated Hartung's portrait medals in gold, silver and bronze.

In addition to Radetzky, numerous members of the royal houses, from the Habsburgs to the Dukes of Melz d'Eryl to the Liechtensteiners, from the former French Empress Marie Louise of Austria to Giuditte Turina, the composer Vincenzo Bellini's famous muse, from Karl von Birago , the well-known war technician, up to the military strategist Field Marshal Heinrich von Hess Hartung's homeopathic treatment.

Hartung, who spoke half a dozen languages, is the founder of a family of doctors that provided numerous well-known doctors in the following centuries and for seven generations to this day. Since his son Erhard was ennobled , it has had the addition of Hartungen .

Fonts

  • Homeopathic cure for cholera. Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1837.
  • History and documents of sickness and healing Sr. Exc. of the kk field marshal ... Count von Radetzky, in a homeopathic way against the lies and abuse of pseudonyms. Dr. Wolf'sche Buchdruckerei, Munich 1843.
  • Memoirs from the life and work of a doctor. Augsburg 1848.

literature

  • Biography of the Kaiserl.-Königl. Rathes and conducting staff field doctor Dr. Christoph Hartung. Vienna 1845.
  • Samuel Hahnemann: Études de Médecine Homéopathique. Deuxième série / par le docteur Samuel Hahnemann. Etudes cliniques: recueil de 166 observations, fruit de vingt-cinq ans d'une grande pratique / par le docteur Hartung. Maloine, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-224-01958-0 .
  • Erhard Hartung: Dr. Christoph Hartung, an important homeopath from the very beginning. E. Kienesberger Verlag, Nuremberg 1998.
  • Klaus Hartung von Hartungen: Dr. Christoph Hartung and his relationships with Radetzky and Hahnemann. 1968.
  • Willi Jasper: Magic Mountain Riva. Verlag Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88221-623-3
  • Albino Tonelli: Ai confini della Central Europe. The sanatorium of Hartungen di Riva del Garda - Dai fratelli Mann a Kafka gli ospiti della cultura europea. Comune di Riva del Garda - Museo Civico - Biblioteca Civica, Trento 1995.
  • Hartung, Christoph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 88 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hartung, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and pioneer of homeopathy
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Römhild
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1853
Place of death Baden near Vienna