Eduard Albert

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Eduard Albert

Eduard Albert (born January 20, 1841 in Senftenberg , Bohemia ; † September 26, 1900 there ) was a Bohemian-Austrian surgeon and literary translator.

Life

Eduard Albert came from a watchmaking family, attended school in Senftenberg and high school in Reichenau an der Knieschna and Königgrätz ; on the latter he passed the Matura in 1861. He studied medicine at the Josephinum in Vienna , among others with the well-known pathologist Carl von Rokitansky , and completed his studies with the same doctor in January 1867 . In 1868 he married the doctor's daughter M. Pietschová (1845–1924). In 1874 he became full professor of a clinic in Innsbruck, where he devoted himself intensively to scientific and journalistic activities. Thanks to the intercession of Eduard Taaffe , whose personal physician and favorite he was, he succeeded Johann von Dumreicher in 1881 as head of the 1st surgical clinic in Vienna. This function was exercised by Theodor Billroth's competitor until his death.

From 1886 he was a member of the Supreme Health Council, from 1888 of the Leopoldina in Halle, from 1890 of the Czech Academy of Emperor Franz Joseph for Science, Spoken Word and Art as well as the Medical Academy and the Surgical Society in Paris, honorary member of the London Royal Surgical Society Society , from 1887 Hofrat, bearer of the Knight's Cross and the Order of the Leopold ; He was also the editor of the specialist journals Medical Yearbooks and the German Journal for Surgery .

As a politician he ran for the Reichsrat in 1879 , but due to political intrigue he had to withdraw his candidacy. At the end of the 1880s there was a rapprochement with Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , whom he had observed in the manuscript dispute, and his realistic environment; 1888-1890 he supported their main publication Čas financially. Masaryk's progressive views on the upbringing and higher education of women, however, led to a divergence.

Eduard Albert's grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Albert died of a stroke in 1900; he was buried in Senftenberg. In 1901 his son had his remains exhumed and transferred to Vienna.

His son was the private scholar and writer Georg Albert (1869–1943).

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Albert's extensive work consists of 177 specialist publications in branches of medicine, mainly in the field of surgery . In addition to teaching material, such as editions of his lectures, he published about new surgical methods; he was one of the pioneers of antiseptics and theoretical orthopedics . In addition to the quality of the content, he also attached great importance to the linguistic form; as a speaker and teacher, he trained a number of famous students. The later orthopedist Lorenz is one of them . In addition, he was the personal physician of Austrian celebrities and not least of the Emperor Franz Joseph I ; in his time he was one of the most important surgeons in Austria.

Albert performed the first arthrodesis and also coined this term.

In addition to his professional activities as a scientist and doctor, he devoted himself to beautiful literature . In Vienna he spread the Czech literature of his time through his work as a critic, poet and translator. As a patron he promoted Czech politicians and artists, corresponded with writers whose works he translated into German; Long friendship and cooperation connected him with the poet Jaroslav Vrchlický . In the four volumes of his anthology of ( modern and recent ) poetry from Bohemia , he also published his own translations and accompanied the individual works with comments on literary history.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolf Lorenz: I was allowed to help. My life and work. (Translated and edited by Lorenz from My Life and Work. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York) L. Staackmann Verlag, Leipzig 1936; 2nd edition, ibid. 1937, p. 98.
  2. ↑ Jaroslav Opat: Průvodce životem a Dilem TG Masaryk. Česká otázka včera a dnes. Praha 2003, ISBN 80-86142-13-2 , p. 49 f., And Stanislav Polák: TG Masaryk. Za ideálem a pravdou. Vol. 2: 1882-1893. Praha 2001, ISBN 80-86495-02-7 , pp. 180-184.
personal data
SURNAME Albert, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-Austrian surgeon and literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Senftenberg
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1900
Place of death Senftenberg