Karl Heidler of Heilborn

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Karl Joseph Heidler von Heilborn ( lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1849)

Karl Joseph Heidler Edler von Heilborn (born January 26, 1792 in Falkenau an der Eger , Bohemia as Joseph Karl Heidler , † May 13, 1866 in Prague ) was a Bohemian spa doctor and sponsor of Marienbad and author of 25 specialist medical books.

Family and origin

Karl Heidler von Heilborn was born as the son of the citizen and master furrier Johann Anton Heidler (1765–1829) and Clara, née. Fischer (1754–1815) born in Falkenau an der Eger. His mother had married master cooper Andreas Brambach (1757–1778) for the first time in 1778 and had a son from this marriage, who died in 1785. She remained a widow until she married her second husband in 1786. An older son, Joseph Anton Heidler (1786–1864) was the father of the later ennobled Kuk General Staff Doctor Karl Heidler von Egeregg (1809–1887).

The family goes back to the resident citizen and master furrier Bartholomäus Heidler (1657–1730), born in Falkenau, whose father Matthäus Heidler (1629–1689) was born in Lauterbach-Stadt in the nearby Kaiserwald as the son of Paul Heidler on November 8, 1649 had married Susanna, daughter of Caspar Mayer from Lautberbach in Hohenberg an der Eger . As Evangelical Lutheran exiles from Bohemia, the young couple had looked for groomsmen Michael Becher and Hans Heidler, who were also expelled for reasons of faith. Why the couple then moved back to the re-Catholicized Egerland by 1655 at the latest , remains to be assumed, economic reasons are to be considered. Of the couple's eight known children, seven were born and baptized in Falkenau.

Life

The parents encouraged their son to study. He attended the Piarist high school in Schlackenwerth and the Lyceum in Pilsen . He then went to study medicine in Prague, where he received his doctorate in medicine and master's degree in obstetrics on April 14, 1818 . In May 1818 he was appointed as a well doctor in the newly created spa town of Marienbad by the Teplá monastery . Heidler's father Anton had moved to Marienbad as a widower with his son, where the family built a new large property, the so-called Römer .

From 1820 on, Heidler also became Goethe's personal spa doctor , who described him as a dear and intelligent young man . Both exchanged views in their geological and scientific research. This also included a 52-page herbarium on plants, which Goethe had started to create in 1823 and which Heidler had given to complete.

When his son Michael Karl Heidler von Heilborn (1821-1892) was baptized , Michael Pawlowitsch Romanow (1798-1849), Grand Duke of Russia, was the godfather.

In 1828 he became the successor to the medical founder of Marienbad, Johann Josef Nehr, and Kuk became the first spa doctor and thus the medical director of the spa. In 1829 he became Imperial Councilor. Other titles were Herzogl in 1832. Sachsen-Meiningscher Medizinalrat, 1835 Imperial Russian State Council and 1837 Königl. Saxon Councilor. Heidler is described by contemporary witnesses as a personality with sharp judgment and a practical sense of activity; He was therefore the type of the distinguished spa doctor of the old days (as in 1863), a man of letters and an esthete, elegant in his appearance, inwardly of deep humanity. In his waiting room, the simplest people were allowed to sit next to the most brilliant aristocratic personalities.

A large number of functional spa facilities, such as the lifting machine for scooping up the mineral water, the use of uniformly sized well glasses, and the setting up of several springs are all thanks to him.

In 1844 Karl Heidler acquired the manor and castle Alt Zedlisch , this property remained in the family until 1945. In 1846 Heidler was the founder of the first municipal hospital in his home town of Falkenau, which also had a garden. His professional competence and medical versatility, so u. a. also in the knowledge and treatment of cholera, is expressed in various letterpresses.

On 12 February 1858 he was awarded for his achievements in Vienna by Emperor Franz Joseph , a registry increase the parole Edler and the predicate of Heilborn .

Heidler retired in 1857, lived next to Marienbad in Prague, where he succumbed to cerebral palsy on May 13, 1866. His body was transferred to Marienbad, where he was next to his wife Theresia, born on May 18, 1866. Pfrogner (1795–1861) was buried. In addition to the castle in Alt Zedlisch, he also left two large houses in Marienbad.

Family and offspring

Karl Joseph Heidler von Heilborn, pastel chalk on cardboard, 1842, private collection
Theresia Heidler von Heilborn, b. Pfrogner, pastel chalk on cardboard, 1842 (?), Private collection

Karl Heidler von Heilborn married Maria Theresia Pfrogner on April 14, 1819 (born January 18, 1795 in Königswart ; † August 17, 1861 in Marienbad) Parents: Dr. jur. Alexander Pfrogner (born October 24, 1761 in Plan ), senior bailiff in Königwart and lawyer in Plan and Victoria, b. Steiner. Pfrogner lost his entire fortune in the national bankruptcy in 1811 due to the financial patent of the Austrian Emperor Franz I.

Karl and Theresia Heidler had seven children between 1820 and 1831, of whom only one daughter and one son survived childhood.

Children:

1. Therese Heidler von Heilborn, born January 16, 1820 in Prague; † December 17, 1903, married September 14, 1841 in Marienbad with Dr. med. Emil Kratzmann (1815–1867) from Kratzau , spa doctor in Marienbad.

2. Michael Karl Heidler von Heilborn , owner of the landgrave estates of Alt Zedlisch, Lukawetz and Innichen , honorary citizen of the city of Tachau , born August 16, 1821 in Marienbad; † January 16, 1892 in Prag-Weinberge, married on November 11, 1845 in Gablonz to Barbara Pfeiffer (1825–1869)

Son: Karl Heidler von Heilborn, Dr. med. Well doctor in Marienbad, heir to his father's estates, * January 28, 1846 in Alt Zedlisch † January 8, 1907 there; married on October 29, 1875 in Reichenberg to Hermine Horn (1855–1924) from Reichenberg.

Publications

  • 1819: About the gas baths in Marienbad, along with a sketched description of this spa
  • 1822: Marienbad medically represented based on our own previous observations and views
  • 1826: Rules for the use of the Gesundbrunnen and therapeutic baths in Marienbad
  • 1833: The forest spring at Marienbad
  • 1836: On the use of mineral waters in the evening
  • 1837: Old reasons for the new reputation of Marienbad
  • 1837: Natural history of the Marienbad spa resort
  • 1837: The forest spring at Marienbad
  • 1839: About the healing earth or the bathing mud of Marienbad (written together with R. Brandes), Hanover 1839
  • 1860: The new Mineralmorr in Marienbad, as an enrichment of the medical versatility of this spa

coat of arms

A shield divided in silver over blue. The upper field is crossed by a diagonal red bar, which is covered with the golden bowl of Hygiea, around which a backward-facing drinking green snake is wound twice and is accompanied by two blue stars. In the lower field protrudes a round golden dome with a patriarchal cross (commemoration of the Marienbader Kreuzbrunnen) placed over two staves and a button, which is accompanied by two golden stars. A crowned tournament helmet rests on the shield. The crown of the helmet fills a green hill on which a natural, looking back, noble falcon standing in line to fly.

Awards

Heidler became an honorary member or a corresponding member of most European learned, medical and scientific associations, such as in Vienna, Berlin, Bonn, Breslau, Dresden, Halle (Saale), Jena, Leipzig, Brussels, Krakow, London, Moscow, Paris , Stockholm. A square and a street in Falkenau an der Eger were named after him, and a monument was erected in his honor in the Wiesenpark in Marienbad.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taufmatrik Falkenau 1783–1795, Vol. 17, p. 99
  2. ↑ Heidler-Heilborn, Karl . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
  3. ↑ Marienbad City Museum
  4. ↑ Experienced and strived for ; Dr. Kisch, 1914
  5. ↑ The spa town of Marienbad; Dr. E. Kratzmann, Prague 1862, p. 18.
  6. ↑ Born in (Bad) Königswart as the daughter of the lawyer Alexander Pfrogner.
  7. ^ Intelligence sheet of the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . March 1837, col. 89 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Memories of the city of Falkenau ad Eger, Mich. Pelleter, Tachau 1882, vol. 2, p. 131 ff
personal data
SURNAME Heilborn, Karl Heidler from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heilborn, Karl Joseph Heidler Edler von (full name); Heidler, Joseph Karl (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian spa doctor and sponsor of Marienbad
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenau an der Eger , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1866
Place of death Prague