Joseph Bacon

Josef Bacon (born March 27, 1857 in Schäßburg , Transylvania , Austrian Empire ; † January 31, 1941 there ) was a Transylvanian doctor and museum founder.

Life

Josef Bacon was the son of the state advocate and Reichstag deputy Joseph Martin Bacon and Therese Bacon, nee Wenrich. Therese Bacon founded the Association for Women's Education in Schäßburg as one of the first women's rights activists in her city. Bacon was one of ten siblings, but six of them died in childhood. A sister of Bacon was Marie Stritt , who is considered a co-founder of the German women's movement , his brother-in-law was the opera singer Albert Stritt (1847-1908). The marriage with Elise Reinhardt had a daughter, Elisabeth, who married the lawyer Hans Leicht and was the mother of the writer Elisabeth Hering .

Act

From 1883 to 1925 Bacon was the city ​​physician of Schäßburg. In this role he drove the sanitary modernization of his hometown. Among other things, he campaigned for the construction of water pipes and an epidemic hospital, for food controls, a servants' health insurance fund and an outpatient clinic for tuberculosis sufferers.

As a local researcher, collector, steward and custodian of Transylvanian cultural assets, he is honored today primarily as the founder of a museum. As the founder and honorary curator , Bacon has looked after and developed the local history museum "Alt-Schäßburg" in the hour tower for decades . This museum still exists today and is in the immediate vicinity of the alleged birthplace of Vlad Drăculea III. a tourist attraction in Sighișoara.

Web links

• 100 years of the "Alt-Schäßburg" museum: Dr. Josef Bacon - local researcher and museum founder. In: Schäßburger Nachrichten December 12 , 1999, pp. 3–4 , archived from the original on September 28, 2007 . 
• Josef Bacon: Home. (pdf, 9.7 MB) In: Schäßburger Nachrichten December 12 , 1999, p. 4 (poem). 
• baconhaus.de. (Josef Bacon's parents' house in Schäßburg with background information on the family history).