Karl Heidler from Egeregg

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Karl Heidler , Knight Heidler von Egeregg since 1856 (* December 23, 1809 in Falkenau an der Eger ; † April 5, 1887 in Vienna ), was professor of medicine at the Josefs Academy in Vienna and organized the Austrian military medical service as a general staff doctor .

Karl Heidler Ritter von Egeregg (lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1854)

Life

Karl Heidler was born as the son of the bourgeois master furrier Joseph Anton Heidler (1786–1864) and Anna, geb. Starck (1788-1854) was born and was a nephew of the well-known Marienbad spa doctor Karl Joseph Heidler Edler von Heilborn (1792-1866). His parents enabled him to attend high school in Eger and then to study philosophy at the University of Prague. He then completed the lower course at the Kuk medical and surgical Joseph Academy, later the Josephinum in Vienna.

In 1829 he got his first job as a field medical assistant in the army. On November 1, 1831, he was appointed to complete the higher course at the Josefs Academy, which he completed with his doctorate in medicine and surgery, as well as a master's degree in ophthalmology and obstetrics on March 5, 1838. At the same time he was appointed senior physician and from December 1838 as an assistant at the Josefs Academy. From November 1840, after passing the exam, he received the subject of practical medicine and on March 2, 1844 the professorship of practical medicine and the associated title of Imperial Councilor and the promotion to medical officer. After the Josefs Academy was dissolved in 1848/1849, he became a member of the newly formed permanent field medical commission and inspector of the military medicine squad. In the same year he held the teaching post of theoretical medicine at the Vienna University and at the same time led the field medical direction in Lower Austria.

After managing the medical services during the transport of the wounded from the Hungarian theaters of war ( Hungarian Revolution 1848/1849 ), he was commended by Emperor Franz Joseph I for "his self-sacrificing service". On December 2, 1851, he was appointed vice director of the new Kuk Field Medical Institute in Vienna, and from June 1, 1853, he was appointed managing director there. This was followed on October 1, 1854, when he was appointed director of studies at the reopened Josephs Military Academy. September 1, 1855 Appointment as Chief Medical Officer, 1st class and on February 1, 1856 as President of the new Military Medical Committee .

On September 9, 1856, the status was raised to hereditary knighthood according to the statutes of the Iron Crown Order with the predicate of Egeregg , as well as the award of the family coat of arms.

In 1867 he was promoted to General Staff Physician, leaving as director of studies at the Josefs Academy, and in 1875 retired at his own request.

Marriage and offspring

Karl Heidler Ritter von Egeregg married Anna Streicher (1824-1852) from Vienna in his first marriage in Vienna on September 19, 1846 and his second marriage in Vienna on April 11, 1855 Fanny Franziska Carli († 1902) from Vienna.

Children from 1st marriage:

1. Karl Heidler Freiherr von Egeregg and Syrgenstein (born November 17, 1848 in Vienna; † October 10, 1917 in Kisslegg ) Dr. jur., Kuk Austrian envoy in Stuttgart, from 1891 consul general in Cairo , privy councilor, 1900–1903 ambassador to Serbia and from 1906 extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister in Bern .
His marriage to Sophie, b. Countess of Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach , used. Countess von Waldburg-Syrgenstein remained childless.
2. Ernst Heidler Ritter von Egeregg (* 1852; † 1889); single

Daughter from 2nd marriage:

1. Anna Heidler von Egeregg (born February 13, 1856 in Vienna; † November 2, 1880 ibid), married July 15, 1878 in Unternach Max Ritter von Rittinger (born August 4, 1848 in Schemnitz ; † March 31, 1914 in Vienna ), Lieutenancy Council. Their son was the painter and writer Paul von Rittinger (1879–1953)

coat of arms

Divided from blue to red by a slanted silver bar; at the top a silver anchor placed diagonally to the right; below a double-tailed silver lion. - Two helmets: I. closed flight, split in front silver over blue, behind blue over silver; Covers: blue-silver; II. On the crown of the helmet a noble falcon that is ready to fly and looking backwards; Ceilings: red-silver.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taufmatrik Falkenau, Vol. 12, 1795-1824, p. 160
  2. ^ The Falkenauer Heidler family , special print from the Heimaterzähler , vol. 19, 1968 by Franz Heidler
  3. ↑ Memories of the city of Falkenau an der Eger ; Michael Pelleter, Tachau 1882, vol. 2, p. 133 ff
personal data
SURNAME Heidler von Egeregg, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian professor of medicine and general staff doctor
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenau an der Eger , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1887
Place of death Vienna