Joseph Wattmann from Maëlcamp-Beaulieu

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Joseph von Wattmann, lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber , 1844

Joseph Freiherr Wattmann von Maëlcamp-Beaulieu (born March 6, 1789 in Oberlangbath near Ebensee , † September 14, 1866 in Vienna , also Wattmann-Maëlcamp-Beaulieu , Wattmann von Maelcamp-Beaulieu , sometimes incorrectly Maëlcomp or Maelcomp ) was an Austrian surgeon .

Life

Wattmann was the son of a surgeon. In Vienna he became a student of Vinzenz Kern at the surgeon institute in the general hospital . After becoming a master of surgery in 1810, Wattmann worked in his own house in Wels , where he had set up an eye clinic. But he returned to Vienna to see Kern, whose assistant he was. In 1816 Wattmann became professor of theoretical and practical surgery at the Lyceum in Laibach , and in 1818 professor of surgery at the Lyceum in Innsbruck . There he was also the primary surgeon at the Heilig-Geist-Hospital. In 1824 Wattmann finally succeeded Kern as head of the Operateur Institute in Vienna. From 1829 he was a doctor of surgery and from 1834 personal surgeon to Emperor Franz I , before retiring as a councilor in 1848. In 1858 the noble von Wattmann was given the title of Councilor and on September 5, 1853 he was raised to the rank of baron , allowing him to add that of his second wife Estella, a baroness Maëlcamp-Beaulieu, the last of her tribe, to his name .

Grave of Joseph Wattmann von Maëlcomp-Beaulieu at the Vienna Central Cemetery

In 1906 Wattmann received an honorary grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 14A, number 38), which was made by Eduard Hauser . In 1894 Wattmanngasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

meaning

Wattmann was an important surgeon who, among other things, is considered a pioneer of plastic surgery in Austria. Contrary to the practice of cutting bladder stones in Vienna, he introduced the French method of crushing bladder stones here. He pointed out the symptoms of intraoperative air embolism and its surgical therapy.

Wattmann founded the Elisabeth Children's Hospital in Bad Hall . His students include Franz Schuh and Johann von Dumreicher .

family

His second wife Anne Élisabeth Estelle de Maëlcamp de Beaulieu (also Estella, * July 9, 1794, † February 25, 1863) was the granddaughter of the Austrian general Jean-Pierre de Beaulieu . His son Ludwig Wattmann von Maëlcamp-Beaulieu (born March 25, 1827 in Wieden , † November 22, 1907 in Zaleszczyki , East Galicia ), a large landowner and farmer , served in the army from 1840 to (health-related retirement) 1867 (mostly with the Hussars ) to the Colonel of the General Staff.

Works

  • About the protrusions in the groin area . Strauss, Vienna 1815
  • Attempts to cure the otherwise declared incurable Noli me tangere . Wagner, Innsbruck 1823
  • About dislocation at the hip joint and its establishment . Volke, Vienna 1826
  • About crippled noses and their shape improvement . Wagner, Innsbruck 1826
  • Handbook of Surgery for Use in Public Lectures . Mechitarists, Vienna 1829
  • About the stone drilling and relation to the bladder cuts . Heubner, Vienna 1835
  • Safe healing process with the quickly dangerous air entry into the veins and its importance to forensic medicine . Braumüller, Vienna 1843

literature

Web links

Commons : Joseph Wattmann von Maëlcamp-Beaulieu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kleine Chronik / Stella Turnau von Dobczyc , in: Wiener Abendpost (Wiener Zeitung), November 9, 1914, p. 6
  2. ↑ Charles Emmanuel Joseph Poplimont: La Belgique héraldique: recueil historique, chronologique, généalogique et biographique complet de toutes les maisons nobles reconnues de la belgique , Tome VII - M, Imprimeriere de Walder, Paris 1866, p. 18; VIII. ( Online version , p. N27)
personal data
SURNAME Wattmann from Maëlcamp-Beaulieu, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maëlcamp-Beaulieu, Joseph Wattmann von; Maëlcomp-Beaulieu, Joseph Wattmann von; Wattmann-Maëlcamp-Beaulieu, Joseph Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberlangbath near Ebensee
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1866
Place of death Vienna