Jean de Carro
Jean de Carro , also Johann Carro , (born August 8, 1770 in Geneva , † March 12, 1857 in Karlsbad , Bohemia ) was a Swiss-Austrian doctor in Vienna and Karlsbad.
Life
De Carro came from an old, influential Geneva family. At the age of 20 he left home to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh , which he graduated in 1793. De Carro then began his professional career in Vienna. In addition to his work as a general practitioner, de Carro was also active in research at the University of Vienna, where he mainly dealt with smallpox infections . In 1799 he successfully carried out a smallpox vaccination with cowpox lymph on his two sons on the European mainland for the first time. Because of its achievements in this field, he was in 1820 by I. Emperor Franz in the knighthood raised.
In 1826 Jean de Carro, who suffered from constant attacks of gout , came to Karlsbad (today Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic) for a spa stay . After a successful cure , he moved his practice from Vienna to Karlsbad and worked there as a doctor during the course season. De Carro had a significant influence on the cultural and medical history of the place during his work in Karlovy Vary. In 1826 he introduced steam baths and carried out chemical analyzes of the springs there. By writing several works in French and English, de Carro made Carlsbad known as a spa town in Europe and North America. From 1831 to 1856 de Carro also published 26 volumes of the "Almanach de Carlsbad" , which included annual reports as well as historical, natural history and medical topics as well as essays on Czech literature and ethnology.
At de Carro's suggestion, a marble plaque with the Latin ode "In thermas Caroli IV.", A praise of Karlovy Vary, was placed near the Mühlbrunn in 1829, and can still be seen there today. In 1843 Jean de Carro was made an honorary citizen of Karlsbad. He continued to publish writings about Karlsbad before he died there on March 12, 1857 and, like other famous personalities who had worked in Karlsbad, was buried at the Andreasfriedhof (today Mozart Park).
His grandson was the stage actor Carl Ritter von Carro .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Carro, Johann Ritter de . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, pp. 295-297 ( digitized version ).
- August Hirsch : Carro, Jean de . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 28 f.
- Carro, Johann von (1770-1857), physician. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 137.
Web links
- Works by and about Jean de Carro in the German Digital Library
- Johann Carro in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 152, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carro, Jean de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carro, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-Austrian doctor in Vienna and Karlsbad |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1770 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1857 |
| Place of death | Carlsbad , Bohemia |