Ernst Krackowizer

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Ernst Krackowizer (around 1870)

Ernst Nepomuk Krackowizer (born December 3, 1821 in Spital am Pyhrn , † September 23, 1875 in Ossining near New York City , NY ) was an Austrian revolutionary from 1848 and a surgeon in the USA.

family

Emilie Forster (around 1850)

Ernst Nepomuk Krackowizer came from a family whose ancestors can be found in a list of descendants until the 17th century. His parents were the nurse (judge) Ferdinand Krackowizer (1777–1826) and his wife Theresia Richter (1794–1866). The couple had eight children; Ernst Krackowizer was the fifth child.

On May 11, 1851, Ernst Krackowizer and Emilie Forster (1826-1919), who came from Styria , married in New York . His bride had followed him to the United States in the same year. Her third daughter Marie Krackowizer (1861–1929) was the wife of Franz Boas .

Life

Ernst Krackowizer attended the Stiftsgymnasium in Kremsmünster and studied medicine at the Universities of Vienna and Pavia . After completing his studies, he took on an assistant position with Franz Schuh at the General Hospital of the City of Vienna .

In the revolution of 1848/49 in the Austrian Empire, Krackowizer took part in Vienna as captain of the Academic Legion . After the suppression of the revolution, Krackowizer was able to flee to the Kingdom of Württemberg in Tübingen , where he became an assistant to Victor von Bruns . From there he went to Kiel . Since Ernst Krackowizer was wanted in a wanted list, he emigrated to the USA in 1850. Krackowizer listed the register of the Upper Austrian Lieutenancy prepared on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior under the consecutive number 14:

"Krackowitzer Dr. Med. Currently practicing physician at Wilhelmsburg near New York in North America. The same is from Vöcklabruck in Upper Austria and his mother currently lives in Steyr. In 1848 he became a commandant of a mobile company as an assistant in the General Hospital in Vienna and severely compromised himself during the siege of Vienna, which is why he was followed with profiles and fled to America. Very dangerous."

In America he first practiced as a doctor in Williamsburg . Ernst Krackowizer was friends with Boa's uncle from the maternal line, the pediatrician Abraham Jacobi .

After moving to New York in 1857, Krackowizer became a member of the Pathological Society . Together with colleagues, he founded the German Hospital, today Lenox Hill Hospital , in New York , where Will Meyer, a cousin of Franz Boas, was the chief surgeon from 1887 to 1923. During the Civil War (1861-1865) Krackowizer served on the side of the Northern States as inspector general of the military hospitals. As a Republican, he was a supporter of President Abraham Lincoln .

Krackowitzer died after two months of typhoid fever on his Greenmount estate in Sing-Sing, today's Ossining.

membership

  • Ernst Krackowizer was a member of the Committee of Seventy : a reform movement that was founded around 1870 after the aftermath of the industrial revolution , the civil war and the high immigration figures. A forerunner organization was the Citizen's Municipal Reform Association (CMRA).

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Web links

Commons : Ernst Krackowizer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files


Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Girtler: Franz Boas - fraternity member and son-in-law of an Austrian revolutionary from 1848 . University of Vienna, Vienna 2003.
  2. ↑ Ferdinand Krackowizer: The Krackowizer family, memorandum written from 1884 to 1891 and dedicated to his children by Ferdinand Krackowizer, retired Imperial Court Councilor (Auberger line no. 76), Wels, in the Kremsmünsterer house (Stadtplatz 63) , translation from the handwriting of Alfred Desbrosses
personal data
SURNAME Krackowizer, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krackowizer, Ernst Nepomuk; Krackowitzer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American physician, surgeon and revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Spital am Pyhrn
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1875
Place of death Ossining near New York City