Johann Nepomuk Hunczovsky

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Johann Nepomuk Hunczovsky, painting by Heinrich Friedrich Füger , 1792, Wienmuseum

Johann Nepomuk Hunczovsky (born May 15, 1752 in Czech near Proßnitz , Moravia , † April 4, 1798 in Vienna ) was an Austrian doctor.

Life

Hunczovsky received his first training in Olomouc and went to Vienna in 1771 to study surgery . On the recommendation of Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla , he continued his studies in Milan . He then returned to Vienna, but undertook another study trip in 1777 with a scholarship from Emperor Joseph II , this time taking him to Paris and London . In 1781 he received a professorship at the medical-surgical school in the military hospital in Gumpendorf , where he taught in numerous specialist areas. Later he also took on a professorship at the Josephs Academy . In 1791 he undertook a trip through Italy in the entourage of Emperor Leopold II and after returning to the k. k . Personal surgeon appointed.

Around 1795 Hunczovsky was one of the teachers of Beethoven's Bonn friend Lorenz von Breuning (1776–1798), who studied medicine in Vienna from 1794 to 1797. As Breuning writes in several letters, he often spent the evenings - together with Beethoven - with Hunczovsky. For Breuning's brother Stephan von Breuning , Hunczovsky was “the most amiable man I met in Vienna”.

On February 15, 1796, Hunczovsky bought a house from Peter von Genzinger in Alservorstadt , at Alsergrund No. 90, which Caroline Pichler's mother, Caroline von Greiner , bought on April 20, 1799 . Pichler writes about him:

“Hunczovsky […] was a very educated man, a great lover of art, and, what is more, and what his death proved, a noble philanthropist. Most of the most beautiful rooms in his house were dedicated to his collections. There was a sizeable library, a whole room full of hand drawings that were emblazoned on its deep blue walls in magnificent gold frames, another with the most beautiful copperplate engravings, which also contained a large collection of minerals in 10–12 extremely elegant glass cabinets; finally a specially furnished room with paintings. The owner lived here with a beautiful young woman whom he recently married, surrounded by his art treasures. "

According to Wurzbach, he died unexpectedly at the age of 47 as a result of a finger injury sustained during an operation. However, this information is not confirmed by the magistrate's death inspection report, according to which Hunczowsky died of "pneumonia and liver inflammation".

Fonts (selection)

  • Medical-surgical observations on his travels through England and France, especially about the hospitals , Vienna: Rudolph Graeffer, 1783.
  • Instruction on surgical operations. Intended for his lectures , Vienna: Rudolph Gräffer, 1785 ( digitized ).
  • On the recent history of surgery in the kk states. A speech given on November 8th, 1787 , Vienna: Rudolph Gräffer, 1787 ( digitized version ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 117 f.
  2. ^ Michael Lorenz , The research project "WA Mozart and his Viennese environment": Mozart research in Vienna at the beginning of the 21st century , Vienna 2013.
  3. ↑ Lorenz, 2013.
  4. ↑ Caroline Pichler, Memories from My Life , ed. by Emil Karl Blümml , Volume 1, Munich 1914, p. 217 f. ( Digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Lorenz, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Hunczovsky, Johann Nepomuk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Czech near Proßnitz , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1798
Place of death Vienna