Emanuel Formánek

Emanuel Formánek.

Emanuel Formánek (born October 7, 1869 in Litomyšl (Leitomischl), † April 2, 1929 in Prague ) was a Czech physician and politician ( Czech National Social Party ). He was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives , a member of the National Committee and a member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Life

education and profession

Emanuel Formánek was born to the doctor Emanuel Formánek and his wife Aloisie. He attended the five-class elementary school and then the high school in Raudnitz , where he passed the Matura in 1888 . He studied medicine at the University of Vienna between 1888 and 1890 , where he passed the first Rigorosum . Then he was from 1891 to 1893 demonstrator and from 1894 to 1896 assistant at the Institute of Applied Medicinal Chemistry at the Czech University in Prague , where he received his doctorate in medicine at the Czech University on March 15, 1893. Between 1893 and 1894 he performed his military service as a one-year volunteer with the 42nd Infantry Regiment in Königgrätz and disarmed with the rank of senior physician. After studying in laboratories in Germany and France, he became a city chemist for the city of Prague in 1897. He also acted as chief inspector of the General State Research Institute for Food and the municipal laboratory for food testing. After his habilitation in April 1898 in the subject of medicinal chemistry and in 1902 in the field of toxology, he was active as a private lecturer at the Czech University and had lectureships at the Czech Technical University in Prague . After a research grant in Germany in 1903, he became an associate professor at the Czech University of Medicinal Chemistry in the same year, and from 1910 he was also an associate professor of chemical physiology. In 1918 he was promoted to full professor of chemistry and between 1917 and 1928 he was the director of the chemical institute of the medical faculty, and he was dean from 1923 to 1924. Formánek was a member of the National Health Council, a member of the Association of Czech Doctors in Prague, Vice-President of the State Health Council and Chairman of the Scientific Directorate of the State Health Institute. On May 23, 1923 he was appointed associate member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Political career

Formánek was a member of the National Social Party, but not very active in party politics. However, he was involved in the Neo-Slav movement and in the summer of 1913 campaigned in St. Peterburg for financial support for the pro-Russian forces in the Habsburg Monarchy. He ran in the Reichsrat election in 1911 in the electoral district of Bohemia 28 and was able to prevail in the runoff election with around 56 percent against the candidate of the Social Democrats. He was a member of the House of Representatives between July 17, 1911 and November 12, 1918, where he was initially a member of the Bohemian National Social Club. After leaving this club in June 1912, he joined the newly formed Unified Bohemian Club in June 1913. From November 1916 he was a member of the Czech Association and from September 1917 a member of the Constitutional Club. He was also a member of the Free Association of University Professors in the House of Representatives and was particularly involved in emergency matters, in the area of ​​taxes and inflation, as well as in the question of nationality. In 1918 he became a member of the Czech National Committee.

literature

• Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848–1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848–1849. Reichsrat 1861–1918. A biographical lexicon. Sub-Volume 1: A-L. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2014, p. 298.
• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical handbook, 1911-1917, XII. Legislative period. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Ludwig, Vienna 1911, p. 265
• Robert Luft: Parliamentary Leadership Groups and Political Structures in Czech Society. Volume 2: Czech MPs and parties of the Austrian Reichsrat 1907–1914. Biographical handbook of the Czech members of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat 1907 to 1914. Munich, Oldenbourg Verlag , 2012, pp. A 103 ff.