Ignaz Ising

Ignaz Ising (born December 9, 1845 in Gelchsheim , Lower Franconia , † August 1, 1919 in Würzburg ) was a German balneologist and spa doctor.

Life

A pavilion as the last memory of Ignaz Ising

Boxberger tomb
( chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen)

Ising, who came from a merchant family, first studied medicine at the University of Vienna , where he also learned the cold water applications according to Vincenz Prießnitz (1799-1851) and holistic medicine as an assistant to Wilhelm Winternitz , and then completed his studies in 1872 at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg with a doctorate . What I learned in Vienna probably met with less acceptance in Würzburg, because Ising commented on his diploma from 1872 with the words: "The grade was bad because, due to my studies in Vienna, I took views on the exam that were not yet common in Würzburg." Before obtaining his doctorate, he volunteered as a junior doctor in the Franco-German War (1870/71).

In Kissingen , which was officially raised to the status of “bath” by the Bavarian “fairy tale king” Ludwig II in 1883 , he married Helene Boxberger (* March 17, 1854, † October 18, 1875) from the well-known Kissingen pharmacist family , with whom he was son Thomas (1875–1877) had. Ising married his second wife Marie in 1877 and renamed his “sanatorium” to “Marienbad” after her.

Ising set up this sanatorium in Bad Kissingen as a "hydrotherapeutic cold water baths" immediately after completing his doctorate in 1872 and opened it in the following year 1873. The "water sanatorium of Dr. Ignaz Ising ” developed into a leading facility in the health resort. While only 14 patients came in the opening year of 1873, in 1898 there were already 1,300, not counting the local patients. Ising therefore had to constantly expand its facility, most recently in 1882 with the construction of a new lodging house (simple hotel operation). Famous personalities lived here, such as the piano manufacturer Julius Blüthner , Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary ( Sisi ), for whose baths a marble tub had to be purchased, or the painter Adolph Menzel . Menzel recommended Ising to his doctor, who had hung his own paintings in his practice: “Also a painter? Dear doctor, stay! "

Ising not only treated with cold water and mechanical body stimuli in his "institution", he was also convinced that therapeutic exercises and dietary nutrition instructions were necessary to recover and keep the patient healthy.

In addition to his sanatorium, Ising also ran a country doctor's practice and was a sought-after pediatrician. But he became involved in Bad Kissingen, where he received citizenship in 1878 , not only as a spa doctor, but also worked for the common good. For a long time, he was a member of the community college and, from 1887, a member of the city ​​magistrate , also as deputy mayor. He campaigned for the preservation of the Botenlauben castle ruins , which is why he founded the "Bodenlaubenverein". In 1890 he was awarded the title of Royal Bavarian Councilor by Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria .

Councilor Dr. med. Ignaz Ising was buried in the main cemetery in Würzburg . His grave is adorned with a mourning angel by the Frankish sculptor Michael Arnold (1824–1877).

Six years after his death, the entire area was sold to the city in 1925 and later converted into apartments. In 1974 all buildings were demolished. Only a Chinese-style pavilion is still reminiscent of “Marienbad” today.

Publications

• The passive manipulations of Swedish therapeutic gymnastics , 1872
• The remedies of the Kissingen spa for the rational use of the spa, presented for spa guests by Dr. Ignaz Ising , Meiningen 1879. - 2nd edition Meiningen 1882. - Later editions also self-published, e. B. 5th edition, Bad Kissingen 1893

literature

• Gerhard Wulz: Miraculous water , in: "Saale-Zeitung" from February 22, 2006

Web links

• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library