Johann Traugott Dreyer from the Iller

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Johann Traugott Dreyer, knight of the Iller

Johann Traugott Dreyer, Ritter von der Iller (born December 5, 1803 in Asch , † September 17, 1871 in Zwettl ) was an Austrian court counselor , professor of natural sciences at the Josephinum , ophthalmologist , major general and chief medical officer in the Imperial and Royal Army.

biography

His parents were the regimental doctor Joseph Dreyer and his wife Theresia. Dreyer joined the Imperial and Royal Army as a junior physician in 1824, studied from 1830 to 1833 at the surgical-ophthalmological clinic of Friedrich Jäger, Ritter von Jaxtthal (1784–1871), personal physician to Prince von Metternich , and received his doctorate at the Josephinum in Vienna on March 5 1831 ("Dissertatio inauguralis medico-chirurgica pertractans novam blepharoplastices methodum") and in 1833 moved to the regimental doctor in the infantry regiment Grand Duke of Baden No. 59 in Innsbruck .

Josephinum in Vienna 1st
Josephinum in Vienna 2nd

On October 1, 1835, Emperor Franz Joseph I gave him the chair of special natural history at the Imperial and Royal Medical and Surgical Joseph Academy. As a result, he also became a field doctor and member of the permanent field medical commission.

On October 21, 1823, Sigmund Caspar Fischer (1793–1860) was appointed to the new chair for special natural history (mineralogy and zoology) (required by the resolution of October 27, 1822). After he was employed as a professor for special natural history at the University of Vienna on November 6, 1834, Emperor Franz Joseph I appointed Johann Traugott to the chair for special natural history as Fischer's successor on July 24, 1835 . The year before, Johann Traugott Dreyer had married Barbara Fleischmann. He taught special natural history until the Joseph Academy was closed for the second time on October 4, 1848. Since Dreyer, since Ferdinand Joseph von Zimmermann's retirement in 1838 (according to others in 1840), has also supplemented botany in the higher course , the probably very rare constellation arose here, that one person alone taught all subjects of natural history at the highest didactic university level (namely at a medical school). However, Dreyer did not emerge as a specialist writer - probably also temporarily absorbed by his numerous offices in the military and medical services. In 1839 he was named in the Medical Writer's Dictionary. Since 1837 he was a corresponding member of the Rheinische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Mainz . In addition, he was not only a member of the medical faculty in Vienna, but also of the papal-surgical-medical academy in Ferrara .

Johann Traugott Dreyer (1850)

Since December 19, 1850, the officer was court counselor and chief medical officer in the army. He had a high level of academic education and organizational talent, and during the war years of 1848/49 and 1859 he made special contributions.

Dreyer became a knight of the Imperial Austrian Leopold Order and with a diploma from Vienna in 1855 to the herbländisch-Austrian knighthood with the predicate "von der Iller", then in the following year head of the 7th department of the 3rd section (administration) of the kk Army General Command. In 1862 he initiated the reorganization of the field medical service. His military activity also explains why, after the reopening of the academy on October 23, 1854, Dreyer was no longer involved in natural history classes.

The General Staff Doctor, who, in addition to the Order of Leopold, was also the holder of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne, 2nd Class with diamonds , the Royal Prussian Order of the Crown, 2nd Class and Commander of the Royal Spanish Order of Isabel and Grand Cross of the Order of King Francis I , went on February 1, 1864 retiring with the greatest satisfaction for his many years of service.

The professor emeritus was not only a member of the Society of Doctors in Vienna , but also an honorary member of the Association of Baden Doctors for the Promotion of State Medicine.

Works

  • Nova blepharoplastices methodus (Diss. Inaug. Med.), Verlag Carl Gerold, Vindobonae ( Vienna ) 1831, 62 pp.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julius Hirschberg: The history of ophthalmology. The monographs. Volume 7: Jean-Paul Wayenborgh: IBBO. Part 2: IBBO. A - K. Wayenborgh, Bonn 2001, p. 204.
  2. ^ Matthias Svojtka: The natural history lessons at the medical and surgical Joseph Academy (Josephinum) in the period from 1784 to 1874. In: Reports of the Federal Geological Institute. Vol. 103, 2013, ISSN  1017-8880 , pp. 85-95, here p. 91, digitized version (PDF; 404.51 kB) .
  3. ^ Medicinisch-surgical newspaper. Vol. 4, from October 5, 1835, ZDB -ID 516609-3 , p. 32 .
  4. ^ Matthias Svojtka: The natural history lessons at the medical and surgical Joseph Academy (Josephinum) in the period from 1784 to 1874. In: Reports of the Federal Geological Institute. Vol. 103, 2013, ISSN  1017-8880 , pp. 85–95, here pp. 87 f., Digital version (PDF; 404.51 kB) .
  5. ↑ p. 338
  6. ↑ p. 270
  7. ↑ p. 112
  8. ↑ p. 445
  9. ^ M. Svojtka:  Dreyer von der Iller, Johann Traugott Ritter (1803-1871), physician and natural scientist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 200 f. (Direct links on p. 200 , p. 201 ).
  10. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "New general German Adels-Lexicon", Volume 2, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1860/61, p. 578
  11. ↑ Military schematism of the Austrian Empire. 1866, ZDB -ID 345892-1 , p. 603.
  12. ↑ military newspaper. Vol. 17, No. 11, from Saturday, February 6, 1864, ZDB -ID 546331-2 , p. 88 .
  13. ↑ Paperback of the Vienna KK University. 1868, ZDB -ID 2749440-8 , p. 148.
  14. ↑ p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Dreyer von der Iller, Johann Traugott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dreyer Ritter von der Iller, Johann Traugott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer, ophthalmologist and military doctor
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Ash
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1871
Place of death Zwettl