Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis

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Johann Nepomuk Ringseis, ca.1860
Ring ice (drawing by Moritz von Schwind )

Johann Nepomuk Ringseis , from 1834 Ritter von Ringseis (born May 16, 1785 in Schwarzhofen ( Upper Palatinate ), † May 22, 1880 in Munich ) was a doctor , internist and professor in Munich.

Life

Ringseis, who had nine younger siblings, attended the Cistercian monastery school in Walderbach , graduated from high school in Amberg in 1797 , and studied medicine at the University of Landshut from 1805 to 1812 . He was a listener of Karl Friedrich Schimper , where he got to know Johann Michael Sailer and Friedrich Karl von Savigny as well as the siblings Clemens and Bettina Brentano and joined the romantic group they founded.

After receiving his doctorate, he stayed in Vienna from September 1812 to September 1813 , where he was among the guests of the wedding of Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Elisabeth Röckel on May 16, 1813 . He also socialized there with the doctors Johann Malfatti and Johann Peter Frank , the poet Caroline Pichler and his friend Clemens Brentano as well as with Adam Müller , Friedrich Schlegel , Klemens Maria Hofbauer and Friedrich August von Klinkowström . Then traveled on to Berlin and lived in Paris in 1814/15 .

In 1817 he settled as a primary physician at the Munich General Hospital, where he became a confidante of Crown Prince Ludwig . As his personal physician , he was allowed to accompany him on three trips to Italy (1817–24). In 1818 Ludwig appointed Ringseis to the medical council of the Isarkkreis . In 1824 he was elected an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1826 he became a full professor at the Medical Faculty of the Bavarian State University, which had moved from Landshut to Munich . In 1825 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . From 1825 to 1871 he was also chief medical officer and medical consultant in the Ministry of the Interior. In 1842 he finally became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

In addition, Ringseis tried from 1827 to gain influence through his participation in the Eos district and later in the Görres district. In 1834 he received the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , which determined the personal title of nobility, in 1837 he became a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Estates and spokesman for the Catholic-conservative group. In 1848 he co-founded the Association for Constitutional Monarchy and Religious Freedom . After Ludwig I abdicated, Ringseis lost all public offices.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang G. Locher: Ringseis, Johann Nepomuk von. 2005, p. 1253.
  2. ↑ Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis, Jugenderinnerungen (VII) , in: Historical-political sheets for Catholic Germany , ed. by Edmund Jörg and Franz Binder, Volume 76 (1875), pp. 157-180, here pp. 166f. ( Digitized version )
  3. ↑ Member entry by Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on June 23, 2016.
  4. ^ Member entry of Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ringseis, Johann Nepomuk von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ringseis, Johann Nepomuk Ritter von (full name); Ringseis, Johann Nepomuk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzhofen , Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1880
Place of death Munich