Johann Alois Minnich

Johann Alois Minnich, bust from 1887

Johann Alois Minnich (* 1. June 1801 in Lenzburg , † 2. July 1885 in Baden AG ) was a Swiss spa doctor with effect site in the spa quarter of Baden .

Life

Minnich came from a Catholic family who had immigrated "from German lands". His father, Alois Hyacinthus, was a painter and draftsman. As a student, Johann Alois attended the Pfeiffer Institute in Lenzburg , the school in Yverdon and the lyceums in Solothurn and Lucerne . In Solothurn he also worked as a teacher at the orphanage.

Minnich married Antoinette Guggenbühler from Lucerne, daughter of an interrogator, around 1825. Her son Albert Minich (1827–1899) became a doctor and his successor. His son was the doctor and scientist Walter Minnich (1864–1940). In his second marriage, Minnich married Albertine Andreae in 1864.

From 1821 to 1825 he studied medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau and Würzburg , where he received his doctorate, and made a trip to Turkey as the companion of his medical professor Johann Lukas Schönlein .

After passing the state examination in Aarau, Minnich practiced as a resident doctor in Mellingen from 1825 to 1832 . He became a member of the Federal Cholera Commission and, as Cholera Commissioner (1831 and 1836), was the author of its final report. Immediately afterwards, in 1832, he was appointed bath doctor for the poor in the canton of Aargau in Baden, where he was professionally and socially committed.

Minnich published poetry in dialect and also in standard German. His first work Alpine flowers. He had already published a reading of Swiss poems that appeared in Lucerne in 1836 in July 1824 in the Freiburg weekly or entertainment newspaper . At the time, his work Baden in Switzerland satisfied more medical curiosity; today it is more of local history. He also wrote travel descriptions and devoted himself to painting and drawing.

Johann Alois Minnich lived in Villa Bäderstrasse 6, which is now known as "Zum Castell". This house later housed a stationery and a photo shop. Baden residents therefore occasionally speculated that the well-known colored pencils could derive their name from Faber-Castell . The house was built for him in 1837/38, is now privately owned and is a listed building as a municipal monument.

A memorial in Baden's Mättelipark that was donated by "his friends" two years after his death commemorates Minnich's integrative personality. The design was made by Robert Dorer , who was born in Baden and to whom important national monuments can be attributed, such as the Geneva national monument on the lake quay with the two female figures.

Fonts (selection)

• Alpine flowers. A reading of Swiss poems . Meyer, Lucerne 1836. google books
• Pictures from Switzerland . Meyer and Zeller, Zurich 1845.
• Travel pictures from Spain: with a view of the Abenzerragen room in the Alhambra . Schultheß, Zurich 1862.
• Bathing in Switzerland and its warm healing springs from a medical, natural and historical point of view. With several coppers and a card . Baden 1844 (2nd, revised edition 1871). google books
  • Baden en Suisse et ses sources minérales chaudes au point de vue de la médecine, de l'histoire naturelle et de la topography . J. Zehnder, Baden 1872.
• For the Hebel celebration in Basel in 1860. Poems in Alemannic dialect . Baden 1860.

literature

• Ulrich Bretscher: Johann Alois Minnich (1801–1885). In: Argovia , annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, vol. 68–69, 1958, pp. 545–546 ( digitized version ).
• Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Minnich, Johann Alois. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Ulrich Münzel: Dr. Johann Alois Minnich, 1801-1885. New year's paper of the pharmacy Dr. U. Münzel in Baden, 1948.
• Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon, Vol. 10, p. 1123.
• Andreas Mettenleiter : Testimonials, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements III (I – Z). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 269-305, here: p. 281.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Minnich, Johann Alois. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
2. ^ Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 2nd Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1966, Vol. 15, Lfg. 2. P.  771http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3DGoedekeGrundrissZurGeschichteDerDeutschenDichtung-2-15-2%2FGoedekeGrundrissZurGeschichteDerDeutschenDichtung-2-152~MDZ%3D%70A~%SZ%3Dn113Dopp71~dopp71 PUR% 3D .
3. ↑ Lexicon: Large and Small Pools, Baden / Ennetbaden, Aquae Helveticae, Canton Aargau, Switzerland ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , March 2009, p. 9.  
4. ↑ Directory of the gardens of the city of Baden, Part A, as of 2012 ( Memento of the original dated September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 5. 
5. ^ Inventory of newer Swiss architecture 1850–1920 . Vol. 1, p. 470. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1984.