Johann von Hubertus

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Old Dirmstein cemetery , epitaph for Johann Hubertus with his personal coat of arms

Johann Hubertus , Edler von Hubertus since 1826 (born December 10, 1752 in Dirmstein ( Palatinate ); † March 4, 1828 ibid) was a trained surgeon and member of the Josephs Academy (Josephinum) in Vienna . In his capacity as medical officer , he became the personal surgeon of Archduke Karl of Austria ; In 1826 he was raised to the nobility .

family

Johann Hubertus was the son of the doctor Georg Peter Hubertus, who, according to local records, practiced in Dirmstein around 1765. He had married Katharina Spindler from Forst (born September 18, 1726 in Deidesheim ) in 1752, probably in his third marriage . In this respect, Johann Hubertus could also have been born to the father's second wife, who is not known by name and who may have died in childbirth . He had at least two younger siblings or half-siblings.

Life

Place of study: the Vienna Josephinum
Old cemetery: Tomb of the Hubertus family with inscriptions for Johann (left, with coat of arms) and Franz Balthasar (right)
Grave inscription for Franz Balthasar Hubertus

Johann Hubertus studied medicine at the Josephinum in Vienna and received his doctorate in this subject . He then officiated as a doctor and district surgeon in his native Dirmstein. In 1784 it is listed under this name in the Kurmainzischer Hof- und Staatskalender , which also contains the personal registers of the diocese of Worms , to which Dirmstein belonged at the time.

Possibly at the beginning of the 1790s, when French revolutionary troops and units of the Habsburg monarchy were fighting for the German areas on the left bank of the Rhine , Johann Hubertus gave up his office in Dirmstein and switched to Austrian military service. In 1793 he was already serving as a battalion surgeon with the Austrian Lacy Infantry and as such became the personal physician of Archduke Karl. This is documented by the Salzburger Medicinisch-Chirurgische Zeitung of July 22, 1793. Johann Hubertus achieved fame in that position in Brussels in 1794 when he saved the life of the 45-year-old Hungarian nobleman Baron von Krasky in a difficult operation . He suffered from an inguinal hernia that had been trapped for more than 100 hours , which had already led to necrosis and an intestinal obstruction .

In 1797 and 1798 Johann Hubertus was led as a staff surgeon in the Imperial and Royal Army and at the same time as the personal surgeon of Archduke Karl. A biography of the Archduke from 1942 described Johann Hubertus as field staff doctor .

Apparently Johann Hubertus also worked as a general practitioner in Vienna and the surrounding area. In 1804 the man from Palatinate is said to have successfully treated "hot fever, measles and scarlet fever" with water cures in Laxenburg , a summer residence of the Habsburgs near Vienna. The doctor Joseph Frank , son of the famous medicine professor Johann Peter Frank from Rodalben in the Palatinate, introduced these water treatments in Vienna in 1803. Presumably, Johann Hubertus was in contact with fellow countrymen Frank father and son who lived there, since he took over their method a year later. According to the Viennese schematic of 1808, Johann Hubertus lived in Breunerstraße 1198 there.

Johann Hubertus was ennobled for his services in 1826. The Austrian state schematism names Johann Hubertus for the last time in 1828 as a member of the medical Josephs Academy , doctor of surgery, emeritus personal surgeon and medical officer.

Johann Hubertus spent his retirement in Austria and died during a home visit in Dirmstein; he found his final resting place in the old cemetery there . This is in the east of the community, the former Niederdorf , near the Episcopal Castle and was occupied until the 1850s. The magnificent tomb with the family coat of arms has been preserved to this day.

Family environment

The younger brother or half-brother Franz Balthasar von Hubertus (born April 19, 1766, † April 9, 1832) also made a career as a military doctor in Austria. He died in Pressburg (now Bratislava, Slovakia ) and was probably buried there too. His dates are carved on the side of the tomb of Johann Hubertus in Dirmstein.

Both brothers are listed in Austria in 1822 and 1825 as doctors of surgery and field staff doctors. The military schematism of 1828 only mentions Franz Hubertus alone. Shortly before his death, Hubertus raised him to the nobility as a nobleman . With this title and as the holder of the large gold medal of civil merit, the mirror of honor of the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1831 identifies him.

On the back of the tomb, the sister of the two doctors, Margaretha Römer nee. Hubertus (born January 29, 1764; † September 9, 1850).

literature

  • Jürgen Schwerdt: A Dirmsteiner as an imperial personal physician . In: Michael Martin (ed.): Dirmstein - nobility, farmers and citizens . Chronicle of the Dirmstein community. Self-published by the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2005, ISBN 3-9808304-6-2 , p. 399 ff .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner: Register of the flourishing and dead nobility in Germany . Volume 2, page 195. Manz Verlag, Regensburg 1863
  2. ↑ a b c Exhibition of the St. Michael Dirmstein Cultural Association on January 10, 2010 in the Unterhaardter Festhalle: Photos from the Old Cemetery
  3. ^ Jürgen Schwerdt: A Dirmsteiner as an imperial personal physician . In: Dirmstein - nobility, farmers and citizens . 2005, p. 399 ff .
  4. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: familysearch.org: Catharina Spinler )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.familysearch.org
  5. ↑ Book scan: Johann Hubertus as a surgeon in Dirmstein, 1784
  6. ^ Announcement about the promotion to the personal physician with Archduke Karl, 1793, p. 128
  7. ↑ The story of a happily performed fracture cut on H. Hauptmann Krasky by H. Leibchirurg Hubertus . University Archives Vienna. Protocollum Jo 8.1 (1794).
  8. ^ Book scan: Austrian State Schematism from 1797, p. 381
  9. ^ Book scan: Österreichischer Staats-Schematismus from 1798, p. 377
  10. ↑ Viktor Bibl: Archduke Karl, the persistent fighter for Germany's honor . 1942, p. 124
  11. ↑ Prof. Örtel, Ansbach: History of hydrotherapy . Leipzig 1835
  12. ^ Emil Isener: The history of medicine . Berlin 1842, Volume 2, p. 131
  13. ^ Book scan: Vienna address of Johann Hubertus, 1808
  14. ^ Adolf Bäuerle: What does Austria owe to the happy government of Sr. Majesty Emperor Franz . Vienna 1834
  15. ^ Book scan: Austrian State Schematism from 1828, p. 124
  16. ^ Book scan: Austrian Military Schematism from 1822, p. 419
  17. ↑ Book scan: Austrian military schematic from 1825, p. 419
  18. ^ Book scan: Austrian Military Schematism from 1828, p. 423
  19. ^ Book scan: Mirror of Honor of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army from 1831
personal data
SURNAME Hubertus, Johann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hubertus, Johann Edler von; Hubertus, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Dirmstein , Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1828
Place of death Dirmstein