Ernst Anton Quitzmann

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Ernst Anton Quitzmann (born November 13, 1809 in Freising ; † January 22, 1879 in Munich ) was a Bavarian doctor, medical historian and travel writer.

life and work

Ernst Anton was born in Freising as the son of the school teacher Johann Georg Quitzmann and received his education at a grammar school in Munich. He studied medicine from 1828 and graduated with a doctorate in 1836. He got his first experience in practical medicine when he helped fight an outbreak of cholera in Munich in 1837. In the same year he received his medical license, and on the title page of a publication published in 1838 Quitzmann described himself as a “doctor of philosophy and the whole of medicine” and a “general practitioner”; he earned his doctorate in philosophy in 1838.

In the next few years he worked as a district doctor and poor doctor in Munich. Because he was suspected of a German national-liberal attitude, which at that time amounted to a professional ban in the academic field in the times of Vormärz , he was denied the activity as a private lecturer. In 1842 he was put into "intensified police arrest" for three days when, on the occasion of the engagement of the Bavarian Crown Prince Maximilian to the Prussian Princess Marie, he publicly spoke of an impending reconciliation between the Protestant north and the Catholic south. He left Bavaria in the same year and went to Heidelberg , then part of the Grand Duchy of Baden . There he became a “private docent for historical medicine”, but spent the next few years mainly on trips to northern Germany, Austria, southeastern Europe, Turkey, Greece, Italy and Switzerland.

He reported on his longest journey in his German Letters on the Orient (1848), which received great attention at the time. Written in the form of letters, the main focus is on descriptions from today's Romania , from Constantinople and from Athens . Curiously, the Heidelberger Jahrbücher der LIteratur published a short review even before the book was published, signed “Quitzmann” and apparently written by himself; one can assume that his local contacts helped him to place his own book advertisement in this renowned magazine!

In 1848 Quitzmann returned to Munich. Now he was allowed to work as a private lecturer , although Quitzmann - who had not achieved the title of professor himself and had to fight for years before he could first teach as a private lecturer in Heidelberg - was very reserved about this position: In a lecture at the university teachers' meeting in Jena (spring 1849) Quitzmann called the private lecturer at German universities the “university proletarian”. How much time he had for academic research and teaching and how long he worked as a private lecturer in Munich is unknown, especially since he soon took up a position as a military doctor in the Bavarian army. He brought it from a junior doctor 1st class to senior staff doctor 1st class and later took part in the wars of 1866 and 1870–1871.

Throughout his life Quitzmann was interested in questions of medical history as well as in historical, folklore and ethnological topics, the latter preferably with a local reference to Bavaria. His large, six-volume historical novel cycle, Götterwanderungen and Götterdämmerung , was published between 1873 and 1875 . Several essays by Quitzmann, in which he writes about the origins and the oldest residences of the Bavarians , have become important for research into early Bavarian history . He denied the descent of the Bavarians from the Celts and saw them rather as "pure Germanic peoples" who had emerged from the Suebi people as descendants of Marcomanni princes. According to current knowledge, these assumptions are considered to be outdated, although some scientists assume that the Bavarians are an Elbe Germanic origin.

family

It was not until 1868, at an advanced age, that Quitzmann married Mrs. Wilhelmine Zöpfl, one of the four daughters of the professor of constitutional law (since 1839) and Privy Councilor (since 1874) Heinrich Zöpfl (1807–1877) who worked in Heidelberg . Quitzmann had already met her during his stay in Heidelberg (1842–1848), and despite the fact that he was almost the same age as her father, they are said to have had a very happy marriage, which after only eleven years with Quitzmann's death found its end.

Awards and memberships

Fonts

Travel report

  • 1848: German letters about the Orient , Stuttgart: JB Müller ( MDZ ) ( Google )
    • New edition 1850: Travel letters from Hungary, the Banat, Transylvania, the Danube Principalities, European Turkey and Greece. New edition . [Despite the changed title, actually only one reprint with the same pagination of the first edition] ( MDZ ) ( Google )

Large parts of the text also appeared in Friedrich Heinzelmann's travel pictures and sketches from Galicia, Hungary, the Banat and Transylvania, European Turkey, Greece (...) and Montenegro , Leipzig 1853.

Historical novels

  • 1874–1875: Wanderings of the gods and Götterdämmerung . Leipzig: Bernhard Schlicke
    • I. Department: Isomara, the priestess of the Cisa. Cultural history novel (1874). 2 volumes (MDZ: Volume I - Volume II )
    • Section II: The victim of the Hecate. Cultural history novel (1874). 2 volumes (MDZ: Volume I - Volume II )
    • III. Department: The Grove of the Norns. Cultural history from the eighth century (1875). 2 volumes (MDZ: Volume I - Volume II )

Baiuvarica and Bavarica

  • 1838: Folk songs for the historical frescoes in the arcades of the royal court garden in Munich . Munich: Georg Franz ( Google ) ( MDZ )
  • 1857: Origin, original seat and oldest history of the Baiwaren. Ceremony for the seventh secular celebration of the founding of the capital and residence city of Munich . Munich: Georg Franz ( MDZ ) ( Google )
  • 1860: The pagan religion of the Bavarians. First factual evidence of the origin of this people . Leipzig - Heidelberg: CF Winter ( MDZ ) ( Google )
  • 1866: The oldest legal constitution in the Baiwaren. As factual evidence of the ancestry of the Baier tribe . Nuremberg: JA Stein ( MDZ )
  • 1872: Documented history of Flinsbach in the district of Rosenheim . Munich: C. Wolf & Sohn (= special print from Volume XXXII of the Upper Bavarian Archive for Patriotic History ) ( MDZ )
  • 1873: The oldest history of the Baiern up to the year 911. With a history card and a family table of the Agilolfinger , Braunschweig: Fredrich Wreden ( MDZ )

Medicine, science and ethnology

  • 1837: On medical systems and their historical development . Munich: G. Franz ( MDZ ) ( Google )
  • 1838: Quaedam circa morbi historiam . Latin habilitation thesis Munich: Georg Franz ( MDZ ) ( Google )
  • 1838: The development history of the earth according to the ages . Munich: Georg Franz ( MDZ )
  • 1842: Historical development of the parasite theory and its importance for the development of pathogeny . Munich: Georg Franz ( MDZ )
  • 1843: "Philipp Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus". In: August Lewald (ed.): Deutscher Heldensaal and Ehrentempel . First part ( Google ). Karlsruhe: F. Gutsch & Rupp, pp. 111-126
  • 1843: The History of Medicine in its Present State. Historically and critically presented . Karlsruhe: C. Macklot
    • First section: Subjective part of the history of medicine ( MDZ )
    • Second Division: Objective Part of the History of Medicine ( MDZ )
  • 1844: The human body according to its structure and its functions, as the basis of a popular human study . Karlsruhe: F. Gutsch & Rupp (= General German Citizens Library, 8th and 9th half volumes, edited by Karl Andree and August Lewald) ( MDZ )
  • 1855 (together with Maximilian Perty ): Natural history of man as an individual and as a race . Stuttgart: JB Müller (= People's natural history of the three realms for school and house. Volume IV) ( Google ) ( MDZ )
  • 1864: About medical companies and military ambulances. In addition to complete stretcher lessons and instructions for patient transport on railways . Nuremberg: JA Stein ( MDZ ) ( Google )
  • 1876: "The Serbs". In: Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig), No. 1727 of August 5, 1876, p. 116.

literature

  • Wolfgang Uwe Eckert, Robert Jütte: History of Medicine. An introduction . 2., revised. u. supplementary edition, Böhlau, Cologne - Weimar 2014, p. 26

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the dedication to the father in Quitzmanns Geschichte der Medizin , 1st section (1843).
  2. ↑ Heidelberger Jahrbücher der Literatur , No. 58 (1847), pp. 922–924.
  3. ^ The position of the private lecturers II. In: Ost-Deutsche Post . No. 59 . Vienna March 29, 1849, p. 1 (not paged) .
  4. ^ According to the title page. Elsewhere in the contemporary press, the book was cited with the year of publication "1847".
  5. ↑ Was already announced in November 1873 as “news from the book market”, see Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig), No. 1586 of November 22, 1873, p. 387.
personal data
SURNAME Quitzmann, Ernst Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian doctor, historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Freising
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1879
Place of death Munich