Johann Gottfried Bönisch

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Johann Gottfried Bönisch (born June 7, 1777 in Pomßen near Leipzig, † June 25, 1831 in Kamenz ) was a German medic and writer.

Mercy pen and mausoleum before 1837
Mercy pen in Kamenz
Bönisch mausoleum in the garden behind the pen of mercy

Life

Bönisch was the son of a tax officer and grew up in Löbau , where he also went to school. After an apprenticeship in wound medicine , he was a hospital doctor in the Austrian army and worked as a surgeon in the battles of Stockach and Hohenlinden . Bönisch was a field hospital doctor in Ulm in 1797 , a year later a junior doctor in the regiment of Archduke Karl and then a surgeon in Neusalza .

He studied medicine in Dresden and Wittenberg and received his doctorate in Wittenberg in 1804. He then lived as a doctor and writer in Bischofswerda and became a city ​​physician there in 1812 . After he lost all his possessions in a city fire in 1813, he moved to Kamenz, where he also became a city physician.

In 1817 he built the Schmeckwitz sulfur baths. Bönisch began in 1822 to campaign for the establishment of a hospital for the poor and founded the charity foundation in Kamenz. Donations came from over 1000 citizens from 877 towns across Germany. The “Cosmopolitan Charity Foundation for the Poor Sick” was opened on January 3rd, 1826. According to his request, he was buried in the hospital garden. A mausoleum commemorates him.

In 1829 Bönisch received the Cross of the Saxon Order of Civil Merit and became a member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences and the Leipzig Society for the German Language and Antiquities. A place in Kamenz was named in his honor.

The charity building in Kamenz was used as a hospital until 2001, most recently by Deutsche Malteser gGmbH. It has since stood empty and fell into disrepair. The Förderverein Georg-Baselitz-Haus Kamenz eV tried in vain to use it as an art museum for the painter Georg Baselitz, who was born as Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz near Kamenz . The association disbanded in 2017.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Oehl: Municipal collections with friends. Sächsische Zeitung of October 6, 2017 (accessed April 13, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Bönisch, Johann Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Pomßen near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1831
Place of death Kamenz