Ladislaus Batthyány-Strattmann
Ladislaus Prince Batthyány-Strattmann (born October 28, 1870 in Dunakiliti , Hungary , † January 22, 1931 in Vienna ) was a doctor from the Hungarian noble Batthyány family who was beatified .
Life
Ladislaus Batthyány-Strattmann was born as the sixth child in Dunakiliti , a small town on the Little Schüttinsel of the Danube. After completing his secondary school education at the Jesuit high schools Kollegium Kalksburg ( Austria ) and Kalocsa (Hungary), he initially studied soil culture, astronomy, chemistry and physics at the University of Vienna . In 1900 he received the medical diploma.
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In 1898 he married Countess Maria Theresia Countess of Coreth zu Coredo and Starkenberg . The couple had 13 children. In 1902, Batthyány built a hospital in Kittsee in Burgenland , where they lived in the Old Castle . At first he worked there as a general practitioner, while on the side he specialized as a surgeon and later as an ophthalmologist. He treated 80 to 100 patients every day. Batthyány very consciously wanted to be a doctor for the poor : he treated his patients free of charge, and he also gave money to the poorest. He gave away most of his inherited fortune. After the First World War, the family moved to Körmend in Hungary. Batthyány also built a hospital here.
In early September 1929 Batthyány fell ill with cancer. He died in the Löw Sanatorium in Vienna. His body was buried in the family crypt in the Franciscan monastery and monastery church in Güssing . This crypt is the second largest family crypt in Austria after the Capuchin crypt in Vienna.
On March 23, 2003 Ladislaus Batthyány-Strattmann was beatified by Pope John Paul II .
In 2008 a statue of the Blessed was erected by the crypt near the main square in Güssing.
On March 23, 2008, the fifth anniversary of the beatification, Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn of Vienna gave Dr. Ladislaus Batthyány-Strattmann - Church-approved prayer community for the canonization of the doctor of the poor. This is a group of Catholic women and men who consciously want to shape their lives according to the Christian faith in the Catholic Church.
Awards
- Order of the Golden Spur (1915)
- Order of the Golden Fleece (1916)
Appreciation
The Batthyany Strattmann Laszlo Prize has been awarded in Hungary since 1999 .
literature
- Batthyány-Strattmann Prince Ladislaus. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 53.
- Gregor Gatscher-Riedl: Prince Ladislaus (László) Batthyány-Strattmann (1870-1931). A saint in magnate costume and a doctor's smock. In: Daniela Angetter, Johannes Seidl (Hrsg.): Happy who can see the cause of things: Austrian doctors, scientists and technicians in the 19th and 20th centuries. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, pp. 195-206.
- Gregor Gatscher-Riedl: Magnate, physician and philanthropist: The ophthalmologist Dr. Ladislaus Prince Batthyány-Strattmann (1870–1931). In: Burgenland homeland sheets . Volume 65, Eisenstadt 2003, Issue 1, pp. 37-52, PDF on ZOBODAT .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sel. Ladislaus Batthyàny-Strattmann, family man, doctor, accessed on January 7, 2010
Web links
- CV on the Batthyány website
- Dr. Ladislaus Batthyány-Strattmann - Prayer community for the canonization of the doctor of the poor
- Ladislaus Batthyany-Strattmann in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Batthyány-Strattmann, Ladislaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Batthyány-Strattmann, László |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian surgeon, philanthropist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dunakiliti , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1931 |
| Place of death | Vienna |