Johann Michael von Lutzenberg

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Johann Michael Lutzenberg (since 1793 Edler von , * 1745 in Buchloe , † 1815 in Innsbruck ) was a German doctor and university professor.

Life

Lutzenberg, who comes from an old Swabian family of surgeons , attended grammar school in Augsburg , where he lived with a younger brother and cousin with his wealthy grandfather, who was a surgeon in the service of the Fuggers .

In 1767 he went to Tyrol , where he entered the Austrian military. Lutzenberg received his doctorate on the subject of dizziness with drugs and, after being discharged from military service, was Innsbruck epidemic doctor from 1779 to 1792. From 1792 to 1810 he was Professor of Physiology and Drug Science in Innsbruck, and from 1806 also of Medical Encyclopedia and Methodology.

In 1793 he received the hereditary-Austrian nobility with the predicate Edler von Lutzenberg . In 1810 he retired from teaching. In 1812 he was enrolled in the Kingdom of Bavaria as a university professor emeritus and royal Bavarian councilor in the aristocratic class .

Lutzenberg's first marriage was for 27 years with a daughter of the Rheinfelden Magistrate Council Engelberg. A son was born in the marriage, but he died after two days. In his second marriage he was married to a daughter of the Augsburg Magistrate Council Verhelst, a niece of Egid Verhelst . This marriage had four daughters. After Lutzenberg's death, luxury items from his household effects were auctioned on May 9, 1815 in his apartment on Höttinger Gasse in Innsbruck. On October 8, 1815, the Austrian Emperor granted the widow an annual pension of 300 florins and an annual contribution of 30 florins for each of the four underage daughters. The guardianship of the orphaned daughters was taken over by the Innsbruck philosophy professor Friedrich Nitsche (1759–1759) , who retired in 1811 . 1821), who was a friend of Lutzenberg. His son of the same name was ennobled in 1835 with the name Nitsche von Hohenplan .

Lutzenberg wrote an autobiography, printed in Innsbruck in 1812, which was directed against Pasquillanten and in which he also reports that his family had been aristocratic before, except that great-grandfather and grandfather did not make use of the title of nobility, so that he received the emperor on the basis of personal merits was awarded the nobility.

literature

  • GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Limburg an der Lahn 1997, p. 132.
  • Heinz Huber , History of the Medical Faculty Innsbruck , 2010, p. 75 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ digitized version
  2. ↑ Medicinal yearbooks of the emperor. royal Austrian state. Volume 3, Vienna 1817, p. 16.
  3. ↑ ÖBL entry
  4. ↑ digitized version
  5. ↑ digitized version
personal data
SURNAME Lutzenberg, Johann Michael von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lutzenberg, Johann Michael Edler von; Luzenberg, Johann Michael Edler from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchloe
DATE OF DEATH 1815
Place of death innsbruck