Max Joseph Schleiss von Löwenfeld
Max Joseph Schleiss of Lowenfeld (* 7. June 1809 in Sulzbach ( Upper Palatinate ), † 7. February 1897 in Munich ) was a German doctor of surgery and ophthalmology . He was the personal physician and personal surgeon of the Bavarian kings Ludwig I , Maximilian II and Ludwig II. In addition, he served in the Munich Municipal General Hospital and was the author of numerous scientific papers.
Life
Max Joseph Schleiß von Löwenfeld came from a noble family from the Upper Palatinate . He studied and obtained his doctorate in Munich. After his dissertation in 1832, he worked from 1833 to 1836 as an assistant to the Munich ophthalmologist and surgeon Philipp Franz von Walther at the Municipal General Hospital in Munich's Ziemssenstrasse.
With a state grant, he went on a study trip to the leading clinics in the German-speaking area in Berlin , Hamburg , Schwerin , Göttingen , Bonn , Heidelberg , Würzburg , Bamberg and Erlangen . Returned to Munich in 1837, he was appointed district doctor for the poor. Further training in ophthalmology took place in Paris on the mediation of Phillip Franz von Walthers in 1838. A year later, in 1839, these studies were completed by a further educational trip to England, Holland and Belgium.
Returning to Munich, he became in 1840 the royal Hofstabschirurgen and 1848 the royal Hofstabsarzt appointed. From September to November 1842 he temporarily managed the surgical and ophthalmological department of the municipal general hospital as chief physician.
Not long after the death of his mentor Philipp Franz von Walther in 1851 he took over his position as personal physician and personal surgeon of the Bavarian King Maximilian II. After his death in 1864 he received the title and rank of royal chief medical officer from King Ludwig II . In 1882 he was promoted to a royal privy councilor .
tomb
Max Schleiß von Löwenfeld shares the grave in the Old Munich South Cemetery with his wife and in-laws. The grave site is in grave field 23 - row 13 - place 26/27 location .
Personal physician of King Ludwig II.
Due to his position as Ludwig II's personal physician, Max Joseph Schleiß von Löwenfeld was part of a small staff who accompanied the king, often with their families, everywhere. According to Luise von Kobell's notes, Schleiß von Löwenfeld spent his leisure hours fishing and hunting during the summer months that Ludwig II liked to spend in Berg Castle in the 1870s . He is described by her as rather unpretentious: "... even a hunter type - a male face with a large beard - hat and jacket weathered ...". Dr. Schleiß von Löwenfeld knew Ludwig II from childhood. On June 10, 1886, the day after the king was incapacitated, he telegraphed to the Allgemeine Zeitung in Munich: “Correction: From the existence of a serious suffering which prevented his Majesty Ludwig II from exercising government not at all convinced Dr. Schleiß von Löwenfeld, His Majesty's personal surgeon. "
Schleiß von Löwenfeld was married to Adeline Vorherr, the only daughter of the builder of the Old Munich South Cemetery, Gustav Vorherr .
Fonts (selection)
- Sketches for a text-book for a general pathological anatomy, 1847
- On the Origin of Language, Munich, 1866
- On the origin of epidemics, with special reference to cholera and typhus, Munich, 1869
- On the symptomatology and therapy of prostate diseases, Munich, 1858
- Theses cosmologicae septuaginta, Munich, 1882
literature
- Julius Leopold Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna 1901, col. 1503–1504.
- Luise von Kobell: Among the four first kings of Bavaria . Vol. 2, Munich, 1894
- Siegfried Wichmann : The killing of King Ludwig II of Bavaria . Self-published, 2007 ISBN 978-3-00-022234-4
- Heinz Häfner : A king is eliminated. Ludwig II of Bavaria . Munich, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löwenfeld, Max Joseph Schleiss von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sulzbach ( Upper Palatinate ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1897 |
| Place of death | Munich |