Franz Burghardt
Dr. Franz Burghardt (born January 26, 1803 in Buchen im Odenwald, † March 20, 1890 in Budapest ) was a doctor and businessman in Budapest.
Life
Burghardt was born the son of the farmer Joseph Anton Burghardt and his wife Agnes Scheuermann. After the early death of his parents, he grew up in poor conditions. He started out as a shoemaker's boy and gooseherd and later became a whitewater.
Probably through the mediation of the Buchen chaplain at the time , Burghardt came to the grammar school in Tauberbischofsheim , where he graduated from high school. In February 1822 he enrolled at the University of Heidelberg , where he studied surgery for two years, and later also ophthalmology. On October 1, 1824, he joined the Austrian Imperial and Royal Army as a junior physician and was posted to the Josephs Academy in Vienna on August 25, 1827 to finish his studies . He qualified as a surgeon and obstetrician and was promoted to senior field doctor in August 1831.
On February 2, 1831, he married the widow Katharina Retzer, who died only a few months later. On October 1, 1831, he came to Pest, where he married Anna Maria Gerschläger in 1833.
With a handwritten dissertation, he earned his doctorate at the University of Giessen in 1836 . In 1842 he was discharged from the Austrian military at his own request and then worked very successfully as a businessman in the real estate sector in Budapest.
In 1852 Burghardt was elected to the Pest parish council. In 1854 he volunteered to inspect the city's Rochusspital, where he carried out numerous modernizations. In 1859 he was appointed school supervisor for the Pest upper secondary school and the model secondary school. In his functions, he actively campaigned for the elimination of grievances. Due to political changes with the change to Austria-Hungary , he was only honored as a knight of the Franz Joseph Order in 1876 .
He also gave his hometown Buchen with cash donations for the poor and the sick. In 1856 he made a significant contribution to the construction of a nursing home. After the death of his wife in 1877, he called on the benefit of needy students to Dr. Franz and Maria Burghardtischen Foundation Fund. A fund with the same amount enabled the conversion of the higher middle school into a secondary school. In 1884 he founded the trade foundation with 20,000 guilders foundation capital, with which the local trade school was financed. In 1889 Burghardt donated a further 20,000 guilders to the secondary school fund.
The Grand Duchy of Baden awarded Burghardt the Knight's Cross First Class with Oak Leaves of the Order of the Zähringer Lion in 1878 . His hometown Buchen granted him honorary citizenship on October 18, 1884 and after his death in 1891 erected a memorial in the train station. After the high school authorities in Karlsruhe had decreed that the higher schools should be given special names, the "Realgymnasium" Buchen was named in 1954 after the great benefactor of the city "Burghardt-Gymnasium".
literature
Helmut Brosch: Who was Dr. Franz Burghardt? Burghardt-Gymnasium Buchen, November 18, 2004, accessed on April 9, 2014 (Comprehensive presentation in a lecture on the 50th name day of the high school).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burghardt, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Doctor and businessman in Budapest |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beeches in the Odenwald |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1890 |
| Place of death | Budapest |