Joseph of Quarin

Joseph Freiherr von Quarin (born November 19, 1733 in Vienna ; † March 19, 1814 there ) was an Austrian doctor.

Quarin was born as the son of the doctor Peter Quarin and received his doctorate at the age of 15. phil. He then studied medicine at the University of Freiburg and completed his second degree in 1751 with the academic degree of Dr. for his entomological work on insects. med. from. After his return to Vienna, Quarin was forced to take several exams again in order to practice as a doctor. Gerard van Swieten encouraged Quarin to take up the teaching profession, after which Quarin gave lectures from 1754. Quarin initially taught anatomy, later also pharmacy, and was a primary physician at the clinic in the hospital of the Brothers of Mercy . This was followed in 1758 by the appointment to the kk council, then also to the government and medical council. As a further function, Quarin held the office of consultant for the sanitary system at the Lower Austrian regional office. After Maria Theresa sent him to Milan in 1777 to look after her son Archduke Ferdinand Karl , she made him the personal physician of the ruling house. He exercised this function under Joseph II and was entrusted by him in 1784 with the management of the General Hospital , which he resigned in 1791. In 1790 Quarin was raised to the baron status by Joseph II shortly before his death and subsequently appointed personal physician by Leopold II and Emperor Franz. He was elected rector six times at the medical school. His greatest achievements included the expansion of the General Hospital and the construction of the Vienna Findling House, which is spatially separated from it .

The Quaringasse in Vienna- Favoriten and the Quarinhof located there were named after Joseph von Quarin .

Fonts

Josephi Quarin Tentamina de Cicuta . Trattner, Vindobonae 1761 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
Methodus medendarum febrium , 1772
Reflections on the hospitals of Vienna , 1784
Animadversiones practicae in diversos morbos , Vienna 1786
New Quarinisches Dispensatorium: for the use of hospitals and other mild institutions for poor sick people; in addition to the beef. Tax for the drugs . de Paula Merr, Innsbruck 1790 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Quarin, Joseph Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 24th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, pp. 136–139 ( digitized version ).
Julius Leopold Pagel: Quarin, Joseph Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 25 f.
Manfred Skopec: Quarin, Joseph Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 38 f. ( Digitized version ).
Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Quarim, Joseph Freiherr von. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1208.

Web links

Entry on Joseph von Quarin in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

↑ T. Kiehne: The doctoral thesis of Joseph von Quarin as a mirror of the state of medical entomology in the middle of the 18th century. In: Gesnerus. Volume 54, 1997, pp. 23-26.

personal data
SURNAME	Quarin, Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Quarin, Joseph Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 19, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	March 19, 1814
Place of death	Vienna

[1] T. Kiehne: The doctoral thesis of Joseph von Quarin as a mirror of the state of medical entomology in the middle of the 18th century. In: Gesnerus. Volume 54, 1997, pp. 23-26.