Johann Adam Maas

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Bath doctor Adam Maas
Wife Eva Catharina

Johann Adam Maas (* 1784 in Würzburg ; † November 13, 1852 in Bad Kissingen ) was a spa doctor in Bad Kissingen and co-founder of the Bad Kissingen Theresienpital .

Life

Adam Maas studied medicine with Adam Elias von Siebold ( "one of my most worthy students" ) at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , where he was named as a respondent on July 21, 1810 and published his dissertation Sistens glandulam thyreoideam tam sanam, quam in August 1810 morbosam eandemque inprimis strumosam . He holds a doctorate in medicine and surgery .

During the Napoleonic wars , he served as a doctor in a to 1814 military hospital in Zell am Main in Würzburg and as a field surgeon in the rank of officer in the Landwehr - Battalion used.

He came to the spa town of Kissingen in 1814 at the age of 30 and on May 20, 1814 was appointed the royal Bavarian district physician ( medical officer ) and district court physician . He was the main fountain and saltworks doctor in Kissingen, and at the same time fountain doctor in the neighboring spa town of Bocklet .

As an officially appointed well doctor, he was obliged to ensure compliance with the well and bathing laws in the health resort and to look after the salt works. In addition, he was in charge of the control of the pharmacies, which he apparently did not take very seriously, because the royal government of the Lower Main District in Würzburg warned him in 1821 for his negligent supervision.

In 1820 he published the first edition of his treatise Kissingen und seine Heilquellen , which the Stahel'sche Buchhandlung honored with 5.30 guilders per sheet. The first edition, which was also noticed by the medical community, was out of print in 1828, which is why a second and greatly expanded edition appeared in 1830. In his book, Maas put forward the thesis that no Kissinger citizen of his time suffered from hemorrhoids , as all of them drink healing water from the Maxbrunnen (Saurer Brunnen).

In 1834 Maas co-founded the Kissingen “ Theresienspital ” for servants and maids in need in the spa houses, which was financed by a foundation from Bavaria's King Ludwig I and his wife Therese . He was also the doctor of this hospital, but donated his annual salary of 100 guilders.

In 1838 the “ newspaper for the elegant world ” reads : Die Badeärzte, Dr. Maas and Dr. Balling , both writers on Kissingen and of a well-deserved reputation, are very busy and therefore cannot always give the individual patient the necessary care, even with great compliance. Maas was very wealthy and had a handsome house built outside of the former city fortifications on the “Säuplan” (today: Ludwigstrasse 17), which, however, no longer exists.

He was a member of the "Philosophical-Medical Society of Würzburg".

His wife Eva Catharina (1795–1819) died of tuberculosis at the age of 24 . Two daughters also died in childhood. Only daughter Eva Amalie Therese (born March 27, 1818 in Bad Kissingen; † January 21, 1894 ibid) survived and married the bath doctor Heinrich Carl Welsch (1807-1882) from Kissingen on October 9, 1837 at the age of 19 .

Maas died as the oldest well doctor in Bad Kissingen in 1852 and was buried in the local chapel cemetery.

Publications

  • Sistens glandulam thyreoideam tam sanam, quam morbosam eandemque inprimis strumosam. Dissertation . Wuerzburg 1810.
  • Kissingen and its healing springs. Stahel'sche Buchhandlung, Würzburg 1820.
  • Bath chronicle from 1821 by Kissingen. In: Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland : Journal of medicine. Volume 54, 1822, p. 118.
  • Observations on the healing effects of the mineral spring in Kissingen. In: Johannes B. Friedreich: Notes on Bavaria's baths and healing springs. Verlag Friedrich Campe, Nuremberg 1827, p. 91. (digitized version)

Orders and awards

literature

  • Gerhard Wulz: The chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen. A guide with short biographies. Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-934912-04-4 .
  • Gerhard Wulz: A life in Kissingen - because of love .... From the life of the well doctor Heinrich Carl Welsch. In: Saale newspaper . May 18, 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New necrology of the Germans. Thirtieth year, 1852. Second part. Bernh. Friedr. Voigt, Weimar 1854, p. 950 .
  2. ↑ Adam Elias von Siebold : Detailed description of the healing springs in Kissingen and their effects , Verlag Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin 1828, p. 25. (digitized version)
  3. ^ Adolph Carl Peter Callisen: Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors. Volume 12: Lus-Mes. Copenhagen 1832, p. 25. (digitized version)
  4. ^ Conrad Johann Martin Langenbeck (ed.): Library for surgery. Volume 4, Verlag Rudolph Deuerlich, Göttingen 1811, p. 140. (digitized version)
  5. ^ Johann Wendt: The healing springs to Kissingen in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Kissingen / Breslau 1837, p. 27. (digitized version)
  6. ^ Johann Baptist Scharold: Memories from the history of the spa fountains and spa facilities in Kissingen. GE Köpplingersche Buchhandlung, Kitzingen 1838, p. 52. (digitized version)
  7. ↑ Harald Steiner: The author's fee. Its development history from the 17th to the 19th century. (= Book scholarly contributions from the German Book Archive Munich, Volume 59). Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-447-03986-8 , p. 280. (excerpt)
  8. ^ Bibliography on Google books
  9. ^ Kissingen and its healing springs. 2nd Edition. Verlag Franz Bauer, Würzburg 1830 (digital copy)
  10. ↑ The Theresien Hospital was converted into a "Center for Elderly Care and Aid" (Theresienstift, Steinstraße 2) by the Diakonisches Werk Schweinfurt for 3.5 million euros in 2005 and reopened in December 2005. ( Press release ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) ( Official homepage  ( page no longer available , Search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.epv.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.diakonie-schweinfurt.de  
  11. ^ Newspaper for the elegant world. 1838 (part 2), p. 747. (digitized version )
  12. ↑ EG Gersdorf (Ed.): Leipzig Repertory of German and Foreign Literature. Volume 6, Verlag FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1844, p. 159. (digitized version)
personal data
SURNAME Maas, Johann Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1852
Place of death Bad Kissingen