Franz Xaver von Gietl

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Franz Xaver von Gietl
Age picture, around 1885

Franz Xaver Ritter von Gietl (born August 27, 1803 in Höchstädt ad Donau , † March 19, 1888 in Munich ) was a German doctor.

Career

Gietl studied medicine at the universities in Landshut , Würzburg and Munich . In 1827 he received his doctorate in Munich with a pathological examination of neuroganglia . He was sent by the government in 1831 to monitor cholera in Bohemia , Moravia and Silesia . In 1834 he was appointed personal physician to the then Crown Prince and later King of Bavaria Maximilian II . In addition to this position, he also worked as a professor at the medical clinic of Munich University from 1838 . From 1842 to 1851 he was also director of the municipal hospital on the left bank of the Isar. Only at the end of the winter semester of 1885/86 did he stop giving clinical lectures because of a progressive heart condition.

Gietl developed an extensive journalistic activity. His dissertation was followed by six reports on observations of cholera, to which he later returned in journalism. In 1865 and 1875 he published on typhus , in 1849, 1857 and 1870 specifically on its treatment. In a paper published in 1870 he described the main features of his fever theory.

When the district administrator of the Palatinate in January 1844 spoke out against the majority of the Sisters of Mercy being appointed to the “District Poor and Insane Asylum” in Frankenthal and accused the women religious of “proselytizing, immorality and waste” Deputy Bernhard Magel , parish priest of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , immediately. He independently obtained an "expert opinion" from the management of the general municipal hospital in Munich, which the hospital director Dr. Franz Xaver von Gietl wrote. This is where Dr. Gietl vehemently opposes the absurd allegations of the district council members and pays the highest praise to the sisters who have been working there for a long time.

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the City of Munich made him an honorary citizen in 1883 . Gietl's son was the landscape and genre painter Josua von Gietl .

tomb

Grave of Franz Xaver Gietl on the old southern cemetery in Munich location
The right marble bust of the tomb shows Gietl and is probably a work by Johann von Halbig

The tomb of Franz Xaver Gietl is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (wall right place at 135/136 cemetery 6) Location . The grave site was originally laid out for the merchant Johann Josef Pasch (177–1823) and his wife Elisabeth (1780–1833), whose two busts probably originally stood in the two niches. Their daughter Anna (1814–1897) married Franz Xaver von Gietl, who in 1880 took over the grave site. After Gietl's death, his marble bust (attributed to Johann von Halbig ) was placed in the right niche. Gietl's son, the painter Josua von Gietl, is also in the grave .

literature

  • Julius Pagel :  Gietl, Franz Xaver Ritter von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 350 f.
  • Julius Pagel (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the 19th century. 1901
  • Michael Sintzel: History of the origin, expansion and effectiveness of the Order of the Sisters of Mercy , Manz Verlag, Regensburg, 1880, pages 137–141.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The case and the writing of Gietl are recorded in the book History of the Origin, Expansion and Effectiveness of the Order of the Sisters of Mercy by Michael Sintzel, Manz Verlag Regensburg, 1880, pages 137–141.
  2. ↑ cf. Art and Memoria, The Old Southern Cemetery in Munich, Claudia Denk, John Ziesemer, 2014, p. 223f
  3. ↑ cf. Art and Memoria, The Old Southern Cemetery in Munich, Claudia Denk, John Ziesemer, 2014, p. 223f
personal data
SURNAME Gietl, Franz Xaver von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gietl, Franz Xaver Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Höchstädt on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1888
Place of death Munich