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Johann Theobald hero
Monument to Johann Theobald Held in Hohenbruck (Třebechovice)

Johann Theobald Held (also Jan Děpold and Jan František Held , pseudonym: Jan Orebský , born December 11, 1770 in Hohenbruck , Königgrätzer Kreis , †  June 30, 1851 in Prague ) was a Bohemian doctor , anatomist , guitarist and composer .

Life

Held lost his father in 1780 and then came to Prague, where he was accepted as a choirboy in the chapel of the old town parish church Maria in der Wiege, which was directed by Wenzel Praupner . He also attended the Neustädter Gymnasium and from 1789 took courses at the Karl Ferdinand University . From 1792 to 1796 he studied medicine there and on August 21, 1797 was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. Immediately afterwards he took a position as a general practitioner in the hospital of the Merciful Brothers ( Na Františku Hospital ), which he held until 1827, and where he also taught anatomy . He also ran his own doctor's practice in the city.

One of the highlights of Held's life was a trip to Vienna in 1803 , where he met numerous famous musicians, including Beethoven and Ignaz Schuppanzigh . Held reports on this in his autobiography, which he wrote in German from 1843 to 1851. The largely unprinted original is owned by the Museum of National Literature in Prague.

In the years 1818/19 and from 1823 to 1825 he worked in Prague as dean of the medical faculty, later as rector of Charles University .

Like his brother Ignaz Held, he was an excellent guitarist and also played baryton , violin and viola . His compositions include songs, piano pieces and a Te Deum .

Literary works (selection)

  • The home festival in Hohenbruck, in Bohemia on 16. – 18. July 1816 , Prague 1818
  • A word about the enrollment of the pupils at the Carl Ferdinand University in Prague who devoted themselves to all medical studies , Vienna 1820
  • Brief history of the Merciful Brothers Sanatorium in Prague. In addition to retrospectives on the origins, distribution and fate of this order in general , Prague 1823 ( digitized version )
  • Tentamen historicum illustrandis rebus anno MCCCCIX in Universitate pragena gestis , Prague 1827
  • View of Carlsbad. A letter to Mr. Johann Ritter de Carro , Prague 1835 ( digitized version )
  • A word to the pupils of the organ school founded by the Church Music Society , Prague 1837
  • Second look at Carlsbad. A letter, etc. , Prague 1838

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Date according to Weitenweber (1847), p. 2
  2. See Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) And a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 429f.