Christoph Hartung von Hartungen (medic, 1882)

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Christoph Hartung von Hartungen (left) in his youth. Sitting in front of him is his older brother Erhard and on the right his younger brother Heinrich

Christoph Hartung von Hartungen (born May 22, 1882 in Weidling near Vienna , † January 15, 1967 in Meran ; according to family counting Christoph V. ) was an Austrian-Italian doctor.

Life

Christoph Hartung von Hartungen was born on May 22nd, 1882 in Weidling as the second son of Christoph Hartung von Hartungen (IV.) And Clara born. Winter, daughter of the merchant Carolus Antonius Franciscus Winter (1) born. Erhard (III.), Heinrich and Hartmut were his brothers.

After private lessons in his parents' house in Vienna, Hartung von Hartungen and his family moved to Riva on Lake Garda in 1888 and then attended the state high school in Trento , where he graduated with distinction in 1900 . He then studied medicine at the Imperial University of Vienna , among others with Hermann Nothnagel , Edmund von Neusser , Anton Eiselsberg , Julius Wagner-Jauregg , Wilhelm Neumann . On November 19, 1906, he received his doctorate in medicine. Then he went to the Tyrolean Kaiserjägerregiment in Trento for a year . From 1907 to 1914 years of study and assistantship followed in Austria, Italy and Germany, including in the family's own sanatorium , which is managed by his older brother Erhard. v. Hartungen in Riva on Lake Garda. While working as a spa doctor in San Martino di Castrozza , Hartung von Hartungen met Sigmund Freud , with whom he discussed psychology. In addition, Hartung von Hartungen wrote numerous scientific publications. In 1914, Hartung von Hartungen received his doctorate from the University of Padua with the dissertation Contributo alla cura della malattie dei bronchi, dell'intestini e nervose a base costituzionale .

In 1912 Hartung von Hartungen married the concert pianist Ida Bodanzky , sister of the violinist and conductor at the New York Metropolitan Opera Artur Bodanzky . In his second marriage in 1918 he married Antonia Marno von Eichenhorst, descendant of the Minister Marno and the princes of Colonna . From the two marriages come three sons, including the son Heinrich, whose godfather Heinrich Mann was.

During the First World War , Hartung von Hartungen worked as a military doctor in numerous positions. For his services he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Austrian Franz Joseph Order in 1915 . After the war he worked as a freelance homeopathic doctor in Vienna. In 1921 he moved to South Tyrol, now Italy . Living in Merano , he opened a summer outpatient clinic in Seis am Schlern . In 1922 he received Italian citizenship. At the Vienna University for World Trade he was - after his publication of the standard work Psychology of Advertising from 1921 with a new edition from 1928 - from 1929 to 1931 lecturer in the psychology of advertising. In 1933 he opened his winter outpatient clinic in Como , in 1936 he moved to Milan , which he had to leave again in 1942 for reasons of war. In the South Tyrolean option , he refused to move to the German Reich for political reasons.

In addition to his international homeopathic practice, the cosmopolitan doctor dealt with biology, ethnology, psychology, religion and ethics, music, literature and art, discussed with Theodor Koch-Grünberg , Wilhelm Stekel , Max Friedlaender , Artur Schnabel , Franz von Bayros , Hugo Becker , Richard Burmeister , Thomas Mann and corresponded with the Nobel Prize winners Romain Rolland and Heinrich Mann.

In September 1913, Martha Freud wrote to her husband Sigmund, impressed, about Hartung von Hartungen's medical help: […] in short, he's the real doctor like we've never had before. His circle of friends and patients was large. These included the Sigmund Freud family, Prince Gorchakov , Wilhelm Stekel, Thomas Mann , Heinrich Mann, Carla Mann, Magnus Hirschfeld , Romain Rolland, Enrico Benvenuti , Beniamino Gigli , Franz Defregger , the Lombard royal houses Gonzaga , Zaccaria , Melzi d'Eryl and Tommaso Gallarati-Scotti .

After the end of the Second World War , Hartung von Hartungen worked in various positions as a doctor in South Tyrol. From 1951 to 1954 he was editor of the weekly newspaper Der Standpunkt . In the 1950s Luchino Visconti hired him for a small role in the film Sehnsucht . Hartung von Hartungen died on January 15, 1967 in Merano, his grave is in the cemetery of Castelrotto .

Publications (selection)

  • Some news about ancient and modern Rome . In: Communications of the kk Geographical Society . 3 and 4, 1906.
  • The seaside resort and its therapeutic significance . In: Kur- und Bade-Zeitung of the Austrian Riviera . No. 35 , 1909.
  • Resilience cures at the sea . In: Kur- und Bade-Zeitung of the Austrian Riviera . No. 39 , 1909.
  • A tour of a modern asylum for the mentally ill . In: Österreichische Illustrierte Zeitung . No. 2 , 1909.
  • Homosexuality and women's emancipation . Max Spohr, Leipzig 1910.
  • The high infant mortality rate, its cause and treatment . In: Modern Medicine - Journal of Science and Sociology . No. 4 , 1911.
  • The importance of psychoanalysis for the modern sanatorium . In: Clinical-therapeutic weekly . tape 19 , no. 22 , 1912, pp. 651-655 .
  • Critical days and dreams . In: Journal of Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology . No. 12 , 1912.
  • Advertising Psychology . 2nd, presumably edition. Poeschel, Stuttgart 1928 (first edition: 1921).
  • The Merano grape cure . Meran spa administration, Meran 1951.
  • Heinrich Mann in South Tyrol . In: The point of view . September 26, 1952.
  • The most important homeopathic remedies for nervous and mental diseases . In: German Homeopathic Monthly . (February, April and June), 1953.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Erhard Hartung: Dr. Christoph Hartung, an important homeopath from the very beginning . Kienesberger, Nuremberg 1998, ISBN 3-923995-13-X , p. 661 .
  2. ^ A b Fritz D. Schroers: Lexicon of German-speaking Homeopaths . Karl F. Haug Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8304-7254-4 , p. 55 ( online [accessed November 5, 2011]).
  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. 99-102, 141-189, 327 ff., 345 ff .
  4. ↑ a b c Eduard Widmoser: South Tyrol A – Z. Volume II, Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1983, ISBN 3-87803-006-X , p. 178.
  5. ↑ a b c Willi Jasper : Magic Mountain Riva . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88221-623-3 , pp. 20th ff .
  6. ^ Klaus Dieter Seckelmann: The Hartungen sanatorium in Riva . In: South Tyrol in words and pictures . No. 4 , November 1970, pp. 31 .
  7. ↑ a b Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo (Ed.): Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud: Briefwechsel 1904–1938 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-10-022750-6 , pp. 109-112 .
personal data
SURNAME Hartung von Hartungen, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartung von Hartungen, Christoph V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Italian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Weidling near Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 1967
Place of death Meran