Ernst Schilling (politician, 1809)

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Ernst Schilling, lithograph by Georg Decker, ca.1848

Ernst Schilling (born December 25, 1809 in Lofer ; † April 25, 1872 ) was an Austrian doctor and democratic politician during the revolution of 1848/49 . After the failure of the revolution, he emigrated to the USA .

Life

Between 1829 and 1836, Schilling studied philosophy in Salzburg and medicine in Vienna . Since then he has worked as a general practitioner in Vienna. There he also received his doctorate in 1844. med. He was a member of the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna from 1845 to 1849 and its head from 1847 to 1849. In 1848/49 he was a notary at the Widows' Institute of the Medical Faculty.

In spring 1848 he was a member of the Frankfurt pre-parliament and was then among the Austrian representatives in the so-called Fifties Committee , which continued the work of the pre-parliament.

In April 1848 he was at the head of a delegation of the Committee fifties, after Prague traveled to the leaders of the Czech national movement to Frantisek Palacky to participate Bohemia move to the elections.

In May 1848 he was elected member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for the constituency of Austria under the Enns in Vienna - Leopoldstadt , of which he was a member from May 18, 1848 to January 3, 1849.

In the National Assembly, Ernst Schilling joined the Deutscher Hof parliamentary group and its successor parliamentary group, the March Association , and thus belonged to the democratic left that set the tone in the National Assembly, but not to its radical representatives. In 1848 he was also a member of the Austrian club in the Socrates box in Frankfurt am Main. In parliament he was a member of the Committee on People's Armament and Army Affairs.

On May 15, 1848 he was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Salzburg .

After the failure of the revolution, Ernst Schilling emigrated to the USA . Here, in New York , he belonged to a group of immigrant German doctors (including Joseph Kämmerer, H. Schweig, Joseph Goldmark, Ernst Krackowizer ) who rallied around Abraham Jacobi and initiated a radical medical reform in what is known as Little Germany directed.

Around 1855, Schilling was a consulting physician on the three-person Medical Board at the State Emigrant Refuge (a hospital for immigrants that was established on Ward's Island and the world's largest hospital complex in the 1850s).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred EM Purdy (Editor): The Medical Register of New York and Vicinity, For the Year commencing June 1, 1872. New York 1872, pp. 356 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Obituary in: The New York Times . April 27, 1872 ( digitized ).
  3. Volodymyr Tereshchenko: The development of Austro-Slavicism as a political concept in the first half of XIX. Century , Academic Series, Vol. V23140. Grin Verlag 2008 ISBN 9783638759786 . P. 14 f. (online on google.books)
  4. Dr. Josef Gassner: The honorary citizens of the state capital Salzburg; Self-published by the Carolino Augusteum Museum, Salzburg 1954.
  5. ^ Eike Wolgast: Democratic counter-elites in American emigration . in: Manfred Berg , Philipp Gassert (eds.): Germany and the USA in the international history of the 20th century , Festschrift for Detlef Junker , Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart 2004. p. 195 (206) (online on google.books)
  6. ^ Russell Viner: Abraham Jacobi and German Medical Radicalism in Antebellum New York , Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 3, Fall 1998, pp. 434-463. (online at muse.jhu.edu) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / muse.jhu.edu
  7. ^ Friedrich Kapp: Immigration and the Commissioners of Emigration of the State of New York , 1870 / Arno Press 1969, p. 139. ISBN 040500530X (online at google.books)