Johann von Dumreicher

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Johann von Dumreicher, lithograph by Eduard Kaiser , 1850

Johann Heinrich Freiherr Dumreicher von Österreicher (born January 13, 1815 in Trieste , † November 16, 1880 in Januševec near Zagreb ) was an Austrian doctor and surgeon.

family

His grandfather was the royal Danish consul general Johann Heinrich von Dumreicher (born December 2, 1703 in Kempten , † April 12, 1761 in Copenhagen ), who was raised to the nobility in 1757 by the Danish King Friedrich V. His father, Johann Dumreicher, was married to Dite WF von Österreicher, who represented shares in the trading company "Johann Weber" in Trieste.

His son Armand became a major reformer of the Austrian school system.

Life

Johann comes from this same Trieste merchant family. His school and scientific education was particularly encouraged by his grandfather and he began in the normal secondary school near St. Anna in Vienna and further in the high school of the Benedictine monastery of St. Paul in Lavanttal where he also studied philosophy. He acquired knowledge of physics while studying at Zamboni in Verona. He completed his medical studies at the University of Vienna in 1838 with a doctorate. Since 1841 assistant at the surgical clinic, he qualified as a private lecturer in 1844 and became a primary physician in a surgical department in the general hospital in 1846. In 1849 he became a full professor of surgery and head of the surgical clinic. He was the first surgeon who dealt with orthopedic questions (the later orthopedic surgeon Lorenz was his " surgeon " in 1879/1880).

He made particular merits in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. In 1869 he became president of a commission for the reorganization of the military medical system in Austria.

Tomb of Johann von Dumreicher at the Hetzendorfer Friedhof

After a serious illness, he died in 1880. His successor was Eduard Albert , after his first assistant Carl Nicoladoni had been acting head of the clinic for a year . Dumreicheri's burial place was in Graz , in 1899 his body was buried in the Hetzendorfer cemetery . In 1953 the Dumreichergasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Adolf Lorenz: I was allowed to help. My life and work. (Translated and edited by Lorenz from My Life and Work. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York) L. Staackmann Verlag, Leipzig 1936; 2nd edition ibid. 1937, p. 97 f.
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