Friedrich August Unger
Friedrich August Unger (born January 19, 1833 in Eibenstock , † April 5, 1893 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German doctor and the first winter guest of the climatic health resort Davos in Switzerland .
Life
As the son of the Eibenstock merchant Friedrich Benedikt Unger and his wife Sidonie Luise, he attended the Princely School of St. Afra in Meißen . To study medicine, he moved to the University of Leipzig and joined the student union Landsmannschaft Afrania . He finished his studies with a doctorate to become a Dr. med.
After Unger fell ill with pulmonary tuberculosis, he cured for three years in the Görbersdorf asylum in the Giant Mountains without any significant success. Together with Hugo Richter , who had lived there for two years, he went to Graubünden in the winter of 1865 to find healing in a high valley. He settled in Davos (approx. 1560 m in the high Landwasser Valley ) as a spa doctor . The first guesthouse had opened in Davos five years earlier. Unger and Richter were the first winter guests and are considered to be co-founders of winter tourism in Davos. Unger stayed there until 1889 and then went back to Germany, where he spent his twilight years in Frankfurt am Main.
literature
- Alexander Erlach: The history of homeopathy in Switzerland 1827-1971. Haug, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-8304-7306-0 , p. 150.
- Ernst Halter (Ed.): Profile of a Phenomenon. Offizin Zürich Verlag , Zürich 1997, ISBN 978-3-907495-89-6 , p. 33.
- Walter Schmidt: Afraner AH album. 1839-1909. Jachner & Fischer, Leipzig 1909, p. 43.
Web links
- davos.ch: Chronology ( Memento from June 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
See also
Footnotes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Unger, Friedrich August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Unger, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eibenstock |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1893 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |