Franz Hantschel

Franz Hantschel (born October 4, 1844 in Kottowitz , Austrian Empire , now the Czech Republic ; † February 23, 1940 in Vienna ) was a German-Bohemian doctor and local researcher.

Life

Franz Hantschel studied at the Josefs Academy in Vienna, became a doctor of medicine in 1870 and then senior physician at the garrison hospital in Lemberg , Stockerau and Vienna. From 1874 he worked as a regimental doctor in Znojmo , later in Brno and as chief doctor in the Bosnian campaigns.

From 1879 he practiced as a doctor in Česká Lípa , devoted himself to local history and became a writer and author of local history publications. He was the leading representative of the "North Bohemian Excursion Club" and also edited its journal Mitteilungen des Nordböhmischer Excursion Club .

Even after moving, first to Prague - Smíchov , then to Linz , he and his childhood friend, the pedagogue and local researcher Anton Amand Paudler (1844–1905), religious, teacher and co-founder of the North Bohemian excursion club, continued to study local history and stayed in contact with his region of origin. The local history museum in Česká Lípa keeps the memory of the research results of the two local historians alive. Numerous items from the collection are still accessible today.

Publications (selection)

• In 1880 he dedicated the small work "Bad Kattowitz bei Haida (Czech Novy Bor) and its surroundings" to his home village, with information on the history and the sights of the community, which was once known for its baths.
• Seals from Northern Bohemia , 1883
• North Bohemian Tourist Guide, 1894, 2nd edition 1907
• Reichenberg tourist guide, 1895, today's city of Liberec
• Tourist guide through the Bohemian Netherlands , 1896
• Prehistoric find chronicle, 1897
• Leipzig tourist guide, 1900
• The rock castle Altbürgstein, called Einsiedlerstein, 1902, today's rock castle Sloup
• Kammweg guide from the Jeschkenkoppe to the Rosenberge . Self-published, Prag-Smichow 1905 ( slub-dresden.de ).
• Local history of the political district of Bohemian Leipa, 1911
• Biographies of German industrialists from Bohemia, artists, Böhmisch Leipa 1920

literature

• Heimatnachrichten 16, (1964) p. 516 f.
• Lotos (Prague), Journal of the Natural Science - Medical Association in Bohemia, 88 (1941/1947) pp. 226–245
• Franz Hantschel: Local history of the political district Böhmisch-Leipa (1911), page 697-682
• Heribert Sturm : (Ed.) Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands, published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Volume I, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna, 1979, ISBN 3 486 49491 0 , page 533 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Hantschel in the catalog of the German National Library