Johann Georg Otto von Grünewaldt

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Johann Georg Otto von Grünewaldt (born March 30, 1830 in Koik ( Estonia ), † May 8, 1910 in Reval ) was a German-Baltic physician , professor and Russian Real State Councilor .

Life

Johann Georg v. G. attended the cathedral school in Reval and studied medicine from 1848 to 1852 at the University of Dorpat , from 1854 to 1855 in Prague and Vienna and from 1856 to 1857 in Paris and Berlin . From 1855 to 1856, during the Crimean War , he served as a military doctor in Helsingfors and was then a freelance practicing gynecologist in Saint Petersburg until 1890 . At the same time, he was ordinator at the midwifery institute from 1857 to 1860 . From 1860 he was Stadtaccoucheur and from 1872 to 1874 professor at the Midwifery Institute . From 1878 to 1890 he was director of the Evangelical Hospital in Saint Petersburg. From 1859 to 1890 he was a co-founder, secretary, vice-president and president of the Saint Petersburg Doctors Association. He then became their honorary president and honorary member of the German Medical Association in Estonia. From 1890 he lived on the Haakhof estate .

Publications

In addition to several specialist medical publications in the Sankt Petersburg Medical Weekly and in the Reval daily newspaper, he published the "Four Sons of One House" in 1900; Pictures of time and life from Estonia's past in which he describes the life story of his father and his brothers Johann von Grünewaldt (1796–1862), Moritz von Grünewaldt (1797–1877), Otto Magnus von Grünewaldt (1801–1890) and Alexander von Grünewaldt (1805 –1886).

Origin and family

Family coat of arms of the von Grünewaldts

Johann Otto v. G. came from the German-Baltic noble family von Grünewaldt . His father was the Estonian district administrator and chamberlain Otto Magnus von Grünewaldt (1801–1890), who was married to Mathilde von Wolff (1802–1860). Johann Otto married Countess Beate Stenbock (1834–1895) from the Kolk house in 1857 and was the lord of Jerlep , Ammern and Haakhof .

Her descendants were:

  • Ebba Margaretha von Grünewaldt (* 1859 in Saint Petersburg) ∞ Axel Taube zu Forel (* 1856)
  • Otto Moritz von Grünewaldt (* 1860 in Saint Petersburg, † 1936 in Hapsal ), farmer and writer ∞ Helene von Maydell
  • Ernst Ludwig von Grünewaldt (1862–1870)
  • Beate Cäcilie von Grünewaldt (1864–1868)
  • Twins Katharina and Johann Albert von Grünewaldt (1866–1866)
  • Beate von Grünewaldt (* 1868)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Grünewald (1870–1898), farmer

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The midwifery institute (with a building) was opened in Saint Petersburg in 1805 under the patronage of the Empress widow Maria Fjodorovna. In: Erik Amburger , Germans in the state, economy and society of Russia: the Amburger family in St. Petersburg, 1770-1920 , Volume 54 of publications by the Eastern European Institute Munich: Series history, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag , 1986, ISBN 3447025719 , 9783447025713, Page 156, accessed on September 18, 2018 [1]
  2. ^ The Evangelical Hospital in Saint Petersburg was founded in 1859 by a German doctor. In: Karl Schlögel , Saint Petersburg: Schauplätze einer Stadtgeschichte , editors Markus Ackeret, Karl Schlögel, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk , Campus Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3593383217 , 9783593383217, page 114, accessed on September 18, 2018 [2]
  3. Grünewaldt, member of the “St. Petersburg Doctors "and the" German Medical Association ", acquired knowledge through further training abroad, such as B. in Prague, Vienna, Paris and Berlin. In: Kristin Zieger, The Significance of German Medical Associations for Scientific Life, Medical Care and Social Issues in the City of St. Petersburg from 1819-1914 [3] , pages 6, 31, 42, 43, 47, 48, 60, 61 , 70 and 109 accessed on September 18, 2018
  4. St. Petersburg medical weekly. [4]
  5. "Four Sons of One House"; Pictures of time and life from Estonia's past, Ed. O. v. Von Grünewaldt, Leipzig, 1900, Duncker and Humblot, edition: 1 (August 9, 2013), ISBN 3428163923
  6. TAB 21: Beata Elisabet Stenbock. Entry on: Adelsvapen-Wiki (Stenbock nr 12 [5] ), accessed September 18, 2018