Christoph Hartung von Hartungen (medic, 1849)

Christoph Hartung von Hartungen (1911)

Christoph Hartung von Hartungen (right) in conversation with Detlev von Arnim-Kröchlendorff

The doctor is surrounded by friends and patients in Ultental, including Heinrich Mann and Hermione von Preuschen

Hartungshausen, the residence of Christoph Hartung von Hartungen in Ultental, around 1908

Christoph Hermann Hartung von Hartungen (born June 8, 1849 in Vienna , † April 15, 1917 in Terlan ; according to family counts, Christoph IV. ) Was an Austrian doctor .

Life

Christoph Hartung was born on June 8, 1849 in Vienna as the eldest son of the doctor Erhard Hartung and Maria Habermann, daughter of a Iglauer cloth manufacturer. His brother was Eugen Hartung von Hartungen, city senior veterinarian and agricultural academic in Vienna. In 1867, Erhard Hartung was elevated to the hereditary Austrian nobility by Franz Joseph I with the predicate "von Hartungen", which also extended to all of his descendants.

After attending the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna and the Stiftsgymnasium Melk, Christoph Hartung von Hartungen graduated from the Josephstädter Gymnasium in Vienna in 1867 . He then completed a degree in medicine at the Imperial University of Vienna , with Theodor Billroth , Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke , Josef Redtenbacher , Carl von Rokitansky , Johann von Oppolzer , Johann Anton Dlauhy and Joseph Hyrth, among others . He received his doctorate on June 24, 1873. He then continued his education at the Vienna General Hospital and at institutes specializing in neurology . In addition, he studied homeopathy and naturopathy with his father . Then he worked with his father as a freelance doctor in Vienna. In 1887, Hartung von Hartungen founded - based on philosophical considerations for the establishment of an ethical, just and rational society - together with fellow campaigners the Reformation-oriented Hygienic Association Oesterreich , which was supposed to propagate the preventive importance of hygiene for health and also to educate lower social classes . In 1888 he moved to Riva on Lake Garda , where he founded the reform sanatorium of Hartungen in the form of a natural and water sanatorium with an air hut colony. It was one of the first of its kind in Austria, where, including hygiene and dietetics, healing according to an ecologically oriented medicine, after a treatment that included the human environment, the surrounding world and the inner world, was sought. In addition, homeopathy was practiced there, as well as attempts to influence health education through a spiritual, moral and ethical change in consciousness. The then modern psychoanalysis , but especially the human, spiritual affection for the suffering, were part of the therapy of this life reformer. In 1893 Hartung von Hartungen's first wife Clara, née. Winter, daughter of the merchant Carolus Antonius Franciscus Winter. He subsequently married Vittoria de Baroni-Berghof, who came from the Trentino nobility. Together with both women he had a total of eight children, including Erhard (III.), Christoph (V.), Heinrich and Hartmut .

Around 1900 the sanatorium was Dr. von Hartungen is internationally known and sought after and a meeting place for the bourgeoisie , including numerous writers, artists, scientists and aristocrats, many of whom remembered this doctor as the Messiah throughout their lives. Hartung von Hartungen commented on psychological, medical, hygienic-dietary, homeopathic, political, literary-philosophical and social issues in numerous writings and lectures. He was a member of the Anthropological Society of Austria, the Association of Homeopathic Doctors of Austria, founder of the Free Hygienic Journal and the Anti-Anarchist , and holder of the Marian Cross of the Teutonic Knight Order .

Hartung von Hartungen had formed early on from Schopenhauer , Kant , Spinoza , Feuerbach and Hegel , and lived with Socrates , Horace , Plutarch and Goethe. He was described as a brilliant charismatic companion out of inclination, as an independent, tolerant and kind spirit, even as a "Zarathustra figure". Heinrich Mann , the lifelong soulmate, wrote in 1902: “He is a real doctor, so of a very rare species. A personality that encroaches on others, distributing in all directions, uplifting, encouraging and delighted by the feeling of its effects. He will rape her spiritually in a Viennese manner with deafening amiability so that there is no longer any possibility of contemplating the disease. "Almost 50 years later he continued:" She sees the system as human, in the form of the man who once taught her about it . A fifty man with a trimmed white beard, once built, once an elegant Viennese doctor, women hunter like the geniuses of his kind. He can be terribly downgraded, he is cheerful from the bottom up. He was the man who taught to breathe, in his certainty about the excitement of the physical center. ” Thomas Mann also looked back at this doctor at the end of his life and wrote to his son:“ There have been many a time between us over the decades from your unforgettable father Wasn't the question when we remembered our joint stays in Riva and also the encounters with you in conversation ... “During the summer months Hartung von Hartungen took over the medical care of the guests of the well-known arsenic and iron-containing spa in Mitterbad in Ulten . From 1904 to 1906 he had his summer residence Hartungshausen , equipped with the most modern comforts, built entirely from Swiss stone pine in the rear section of the valley in St. Nikolaus . He also welcomed famous friends and patients to his places of work in Ulten, such as Thomas Mann, who completed the Buddenbrooks here ("It's good and relaxing here ...").

Hartung von Hartungen's extensive circle of friends and patients included Heinrich, Thomas and Carla Mann , Hermann and Clara Sudermann , Christian Morgenstern , Rudolf Steiner , Peter Rosegger , Hermione von Preuschen , Franz Defregger , Alexander Girardi , Katharina Schratt , Cesare Lombroso , Karl May , Sigmund Freud , Daniela von Bülow , Henry Thode , Anton Josef Cardinal Gruscha , Wilhelm Stekel , Sebastian Kneipp and the Princely House of Liechtenstein .

In 1906 and 1907 Hartung von Hartungen withdrew from the management of the sanatorium, a "vibrating laboratory of European spirit", which his son Erhard (III) took over with the temporary assistance of his younger brother Christoph (V.) and moved with his family to Meran , where he continued to look after an exclusive clientele as a spa doctor , as in Mitterbad and Hartungshausen. So he took over the last medical treatment from Christian Morgenstern, who died in his arms from the effects of tuberculosis .

Hartung von Hartungen died on April 15, 1917 in Terlan in the Adige Valley (near Bozen), where he had looked after wounded soldiers to the last. Heinrich Mann arranged for his friend to be cremated in Munich. His urn was buried in the Hartung family crypt in Arco .

In his honor, the town of Riva named a street in the center after his name in 2000.

Fonts

• On virile weakness and its inductive curability . Vienna 1884.
• A few thoughts on the solution of the employment question as an economic question, both large and small, in its basic relation to today's social question . Vienna 1886.
• Honorable worker . Weidling 1887.
• Sensations and thoughts of one of our planet inhabitants about the attraction and repulsion relationships of the earth to today's humans . Vienna 1887.
• About hydrotherapy, diet cures, massage and suggestion . In: Ärztlicher Central-Anzeiger . Vienna (1889–1890).
• Lake Garda with special consideration of the Mori-Arco-Riva Einsebahn, and Gardone Riviera (=  cityscapes and landscapes from all over the world . No. 96.97 ). Städtebilder-Verlag, Zurich 1891.
• The hygiene of nursing . Vienna 1891.
• Handbook of climatic medicine . Berlin 1892.
• Medicine, natural healing and the people . Reichenberg 1893.
• Our future or a word for the natural healing method . In: Free Hygienic Sheet . Riva 1893.
• The universe and man . In: Free Hygienic Sheet . Riva 1894.
• Science and audience . Arco 1895.
• The hygienic body care of the lung patient . Arco 1897.
• The hollow socialism of the present and its dangers for society and the state . In: The Anti-Anarchist . Riva 1902.
• The determination of the doctor . In: The Anti-Anarchist . Riva 1902.
• Healing method constitution diet . Meran 1908.
• About self-culture-homeopathy-public health care . In: Berlin homeopathic journal . Berlin 1912.
• Confessions of a Fool in the 20th Century . Meran (1915/1916).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Erhard Hartung: Dr. Christoph Hartung, an important homeopath from the very beginning . Kienesberger, Nuremberg 1998, ISBN 3-923995-13-X , p. 60-61 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Eduard Widmoser: South Tyrol AZ . tape II . Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1983, ISBN 3-87803-005-3 , p. 178 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} 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, Trient 1995, p. 32-50 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Willi Jasper : Magic Mountain Riva . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88221-623-3 , pp. 20th ff .
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Klaus Dieter Seckelmann: The Hartungen sanatorium in Riva . In: South Tyrol in words and pictures . No. November 4 , 1970.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dirk Heißerer : Sea showers - sun shine. Poets on Lake Garda . Diederichs Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-424-01476-1 , p. 122 ff .
7. ↑ ^{a b} Manfred Dierks : The madness and the dreams. An almost true story from the life of Thomas Mann . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf - Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-538-07048-2 , pp. 214 .
8. ↑ Tyrolean . In: Meraner Zeitung . April 17, 1917.
9. ^ 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, Trient 1995, p. 99 .