Markus von Lutterotti

Markus von Lutterotti (born August 10, 1913 in Trient , Austria-Hungary ; † April 21, 2010 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was an Austrian-Italian doctor and pioneer of the hospice movement in Germany.

Life

His parents were the lawyer Karl von Lutterotti (1886–1964) and Annunziata, née Countess Consolati von und zu Heiligenbrunn and Pauhof (1887–1948). Markus von Lutterotti studied at the Universities of Vienna and Bologna . In 1938 he passed the medical state examination. During the Second World War , he was taken prisoner by the US . In 1946 he returned to the Medical Clinic of the City Hospital in Bremen , where he had worked earlier. In 1954 he completed his habilitation in internal medicine . From 1957 to 1983 he was head of the internal department of the Loretto Hospital in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Markus von Lutterotti was a supporter of palliative medicine and campaigned for the hospice idea. He strictly refused to commit suicide under medical supervision. In 1985 von Lutterotti published the book Humane Dying . In 1991 he founded the ecumenical hospice movement in Freiburg, ten years later the Karl Josef hospice. The Benedictine monk Nikolaus von Lutterotti , who died in 1955, was an uncle of Markus von Lutterotti.

Web links

Literature by and about Markus von Lutterotti in the catalog of the German National Library
Markus von Lutterotti † - pioneer of the hospice movement has died , Deutsches Ärzteblatt
Pioneer of the hospice idea - Markus von Lutterotti is dead. , April 22, 2010, Badische Zeitung

literature

Norbert Beleke: Who is who ?: The German who's who. Arani Verlag, Berlin, 2001, p. 905.

Individual evidence

↑ Inge Steinstrasse: Wanderer between the political powers. Father Nikolaus von Lutterotti OSB (1892–1955) and the Grüssau Abbey in Lower Silesia . Böhlau Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20429-7 , pp. 8, 58 and 61.

personal data
SURNAME	Lutterotti, Markus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic
DATE OF BIRTH	August 10, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Trento , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 2010
Place of death	Freiburg in Breisgau

[1] Inge Steinstrasse: Wanderer between the political powers. Father Nikolaus von Lutterotti OSB (1892–1955) and the Grüssau Abbey in Lower Silesia . Böhlau Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20429-7 , pp. 8, 58 and 61.