Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz

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Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz (born August 20, 1772 in Vienna , † July 24, 1815 , other date July 25, 1815 in Zadar ) was an Austrian physician and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is "Vietz".

Life

Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz attended grammar school in Vienna and matriculated at the University of Vienna to study law . After completing his studies, he joined the Austrian civil service in 1794 as chancellor at the Reichshofrat .

Because of his interest in natural history and medical sciences, he was acting as clerk in the same year again and began at the Vienna University studying medicine, he and his promotion to Dr. med. Completed on April 9, 1799.

In 1801 he received an extraordinary professorship in medical police and forensic pharmacology at the University of Vienna from the Lower Austrian provincial government. In 1803 he was commissioned by government decree to hold lectures in the general hospital and to take part in forensic autopsies with his students.

On March 2, 1805 he was appointed full professor at the newly established chair for medical police and forensic pharmacology at the instigation of Baron Andreas Joseph von Stifft . During this time he had also given lectures on Sundays and public holidays on the rescue and treatment of the seemingly dead.

After the veterinary institute was merged with the university, he was appointed first professor and director of the institute by decree of September 11, 1812. Shortly after he took office, the plague broke out in Transylvania , and he was sent there to fight it at the head of a medical commission. In the same year he was also commissioned to visit all quarantine facilities in the provinces of the Austrian coastal region and to report on them.

In February 1813 he went on the inspection trip together with the wound and farm veterinarian Georg Puntschert and traveled the sea coast from Venice to Ragusa and Cattaro and also visited the plague hospital in Livorno . On the way back to Vienna he fell ill with typhus during the crossing to Dalmatia and died in the coastal town of Zadar.

Scientific and literary work

In 1800 he began to publish his work Icones plantarum medico-oeconomico-technologicaum cum earum fructus ususque explicatione . In this writing, which he provided with 1,090 colored copperplate engravings due to his talent for drawing , he described the benefits and uses of plants; of the ten-volume work, however, only the first three volumes came from him, the sequels were made by Ignaz Albrecht and Joseph Lorenz Kerndl (1761-1843).

He dealt intensively with the rescue and treatment of apparent deaths and published a detailed description of this problem in 1804, About the rescue business of apparently dead and suddenly threatened people, together with the new kk Austrian ordinances and the emergency table .

In 1805 he published his book Anatomical Images of the Human Body .

One of his main tasks was the reorganization of the Veterinary Institute and in order to implement reforms he studied the various medical and veterinary institutions and compared them with those in other countries. He designed a new organization for the Vienna Veterinary Institute, which he submitted to the authorities for examination in May 1813 and which was subsequently approved. One of his goals here was to expand the curriculum to include all of veterinary medicine, so that teaching was not, as before, limited to horses only; this initially required the training of teachers in all subjects of veterinary medicine. We owe him the plans for the new building of the institute and its transfer from the military to a civil administration.

He was considered the first veterinary pathologist in Austria.

At his instigation, the posts of state veterinarians were created in the crown lands , from which he demanded that they should support above all with epidemic prophylaxis and animal breeding.

In addition, he laid down the tasks of the Landes-Protomedici (overseer of the doctors and pharmacists) and worked out regulations for the implementation of the smallpox vaccination , a plague police order, which he handed over to the authorities in 1811, and a coastal sanitary normative.

Of particular importance for forensic medicine lessons was his instruction , published in 1814, for the publicly employed doctors and surgeons in the Austro-Hungarian states, how they should behave at judicial examinations .

After his death, Josef Bernt published the first volume of his lectures on forensic medicine, based on the author's handwriting with notes .

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ International Plant Names Index. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
  2. ^ Austrian quarterly for scientific veterinary science . 1877 ( google.de [accessed on March 10, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Medicinal yearbooks of the emperor. royal Austrian state . Beck, 1817 ( google.de [accessed on March 10, 2020]).
  4. ^ Bohemia: an entertainment journal . Haase, 1876 ( google.de [accessed on March 10, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vietz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physician and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1815
Place of death Zadar