Gottfried Karl von Orff

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Gottfried Karl Orff , from 1790 Edler von Orff auf Frohburg , from 1810 Knight von Orff auf Frohburg (born February 10, 1755 in Nördlingen , † September 2, 1837 in Munich ), was a Bavarian doctor and head of the Munich midwifery school.

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Gottfried Karl Orff was the son of Nördlinger city doctor Georg Friedrich Orff († 1779) and his wife Margaretha Katharina Orff, née Kopp. The physician Konrad Friedrich Orff († 1796) was his brother.

After attending school in Nördlingen, Gottfried Karl Orff studied medicine and surgery at the universities in Heidelberg and most recently in Erlangen , where he received his Dr. Med. Et Chir. Doctorate was. In 1773 he became physicus of an electoral regiment in Mannheim. In 1779, at the age of 24, he was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery at the School for Country Doctors in Munich. In 1781 he was appointed Medical Councilor. Gottfried Karl von Orff later worked as the director of the rural medical school and was appointed director of the public midwifery school in Munich in 1816.

On October 1, 1790, Elector Karl Theodor Gottfried Karl Orff was raised to hereditary nobility. After his villa “Frohburg” in the Königinstraße , he received the nobility title “Edler von Orff auf Frohburg”. Since Gottfried Karl von Orff had no descendants, he adopted the Bavarian lieutenant Karl Frohburger (1797–1878), to whom the title of nobility passed, under which he was entered in the Bavarian nobility register on February 13, 1817 .

In 1810 Gottfried Karl von Orff was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , associated with the nobility as Gottfried Karl Ritter von Orff.

In 1811 he was appointed to succeed Franz Joseph von Besnard as chairman of the Munich Medicinal Committee .

On December 1, 1823 Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria appointed him senior medical officer.

Ludwig I, King of Bavaria , awarded him the Cross of Honor of the Order of Ludwig in 1831 .

His adopted son Karl von Orff (formerly Karl Frohburger) was a Bavarian Army Lieutenant à la suite and registrar at the Bavarian General Customs Administration. He was married to Philippine, née Perpente. At that time there was a Bavarian customs registration office in Alzey, shortly before the state border with the Rhine Palatinate , where the family lived and where Karl von Orff officiated. The Bavarian general Karl von Orff was her son.

There is no relationship with Major General Carl Maximilian von Orff (1828–1905), the grandfather of the composer Carl Orff , but merely the same name.

literature

  • New necrology of the Germans . 15, Second Part, Voigt, Weimar 1839, pp. 784–785 digitized
  • Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Medicinisches Writer's Lexicon of the now living authors . Addendum, 31, N-Rop. Copenhagen 1843, p. 95 digitized
  • August Hirsch : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Fourth volume, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1887, p. 432 (archive.org)
  • Johann Jacob Sachs: Medicinischer Almanach for the year 1839. 4, Berlin 1839, S. 29-30 digitized

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Daniel Eberhardt Beyschlag: Contributions to the Nördlingische sex history containing the Nördlingische epitaphs collected and explained with historical notes . Beck, Nördlingen 1801, p. 364 digitized
  2. ↑ Königlich-Baierisches intelligence sheet for the Isar circle. VIII. Piece, Munich 1816, column 145 digitized
  3. ^ Karl Spengler: It happened in Munich. Bruckmann Verlag, 1971, p. 223. ISBN 3-7654-1157-4 . Excerpt from the source
  4. ^ Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexikon. Volume 2, p. 191. Ilmenau 1826, scan from the source
  5. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the letter aristocratic houses. Volume 7, 1913, p. 609. Excerpt from the source
  6. ^ Historical Association of Upper Bavaria: Upper Bavarian Archive. Volume 112, 1988, pp. 141, 150. Excerpts from the source
  7. ^ Schrettinger: The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order and its members. 1882, p. 601. Excerpt from the source
personal data
SURNAME Orff, Gottfried Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orff auf Frohburg, Gottfried Karl Ritter von (full name); Orff auf Frohburg, Gottfried Karl Edler von; Orff, Gottfried Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian physician and head of the Munich midwifery school
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordlingen
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1837
Place of death Munich