Michael Czakul

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Michael Czakul (born November 3, 1707 in Sibiu , † November 20, 1771 in Kronstadt ) was a Transylvanian barber surgeon and personal surgeon of the Moldovan princes Constantin and Ioan Mavrocordat .

Michael Czakul came from the prominent Czakul family in Kronstadt, which produced a number of Kronstadt barber surgeons. One member of this family was "Heinrich Zäckel von Kranen us sibenbürgen", who is mentioned around 1530 in the work book of the Strasbourg armorer Lucas Hackfurt and who was employed to heal the " platters " ( flakes , smallpox). Michael Czakul, for his part, was a barber surgeon in Kronstadt from 1728. From 1736 to 1739 he studied at the University of Halle and completed his studies with a master's degree in surgery. From 1742 he became the personal surgeon of the Moldovan princes Constantin and Ion Mavrocordat. In 1743 he was called to Constantinople to treat the son of the princely Grand Chancellor Sturzda. Since the treatment was successful, Czakul acquired numerous patients from the Turks and Greeks of Constantinople as well as diplomats from great foreign powers. It is also recorded that he successfully treated the Patriarch of Constantinople, who was struck by lightning. In 1752 Czakul was sent to the son of Chan of the Crimean Tatars, Prince Sélim Girey . He had a serious wound on his arm. Czakul managed to avoid an amputation. From there, Czakul returned to his family in Kronstadt. In the great plague epidemic from 1755 to 1756, Czakul successfully fought the disease in the Upper Suburb. In 1762 Czakul became a paid town surgeon. He died as a respected guild master of the Kronstadt surgeon guild.

literature

  • Arnold Huttmann : Medicine in old Transylvania , Hora Verlag Hermannstadt / Sibiu 2000.
  • Robert Offner: German Universities as Training Centers for Transylvanian Doctors from the Beginning to 1850 , in: Márta Fata, Gyula Kurucz and Anton Schindling (eds.): Peregrinatio Hungarica , Steiner Verlag Stuttgart 2006, pp. 288–343.
  • Cristian Nicolae Matei: The idea of ​​health in old Romanian books and documents from Transylvania to Enlightenment , PhD advisor Eva Maria Mârza, Ministry of National Education and Research "1 Decembrie 1918" University in Alba Iulia , Doctoral history School, 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message from the Transylvanian theologian Paul Philippi , based on Huttmann 2000, p. 60.
  2. ^ Eduard Gusbeth: On the history of the medical conditions in Kronstadt , Kronstadt 1884, p. 106.
  3. ↑ Arnold Huttmann: With scissors and cautery. 400 years since the founding of the Kronstadt surgeons guild , in: Neuer Weg , Bucharest No. 5711, September 14, 1967.
  4. ↑ Dissertation Cristian Nicolae Matei: Online Resource Summary , accessed on November 18, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Czakul, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transylvanian doctor, personal physician to Moldovan princes
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1707
PLACE OF BIRTH Sibiu
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1771
Place of death Kronstadt