Oskar von Diruf

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Oskar von Diruf
Bust of Oskar von Diruf
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Diruf family tomb (chapel cemetery
in Bad Kissingen)

Oskar Diruf , later ennobled (born September 18, 1824 in Würzburg , † October 6, 1912 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German balneologist and spa doctor.

Life

The younger son of the Kissinger bath doctor Dr. med. Carl Diruf , founder of a well-known Kissingen spa doctor dynasty, first studied at the University of Heidelberg , where he was one of the founders of the Frankonia II fraternity with the later writer Joseph Victor von Scheffel in 1846 , and joined the university on May 19, 1849 Erlangen , where he was a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity , to Dr. med. PhD . He then worked from 1851 to 1858 as a general practitioner in Naples ( Italy ). Then he too, like his older brother Gustav, who died in 1858, settled down as a royal Bavarian well doctor in Kissingen.

In Kissingen, Diruf was the spa doctor of Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck during his first stay in the spa town in the summer of 1874 and treated his gunshot wound after the assassination attempt by the craftsman Eduard Kullmann on July 13th .

In the course of his professional career, Diruf was appointed Hofrat in Bad Kissingen and Würzburg in 1874 - probably in recognition of Bismarck's provision . He was also Privy Councilor of the Grand Ducal Baden and Princely Reussian Councilor as well as Senior Physician of the Reserve in the 9th Bavarian Infantry Regiment "Wrede" .

Diruf married Marie Girl (born November 2, 1834 in Lindau (Lake Constance) ; † June 27, 1917 in Würzburg). He survived his four children and after his brother's death took over the role of father for his five children. Diruf lived at Maxstrasse No. 277 in a house that was called "Gothic House" because of its neo-Gothic decorations. His brother Victor von Scheffel was also a spa guest here in 1878, 1882 and 1883. Diruf had asked his friend to use the Kissinger healing water, so that it could free him "from stagnation in the abdominal area" .

Diruf gave his city u. a. the building site for the construction of the Protestant children's sanatorium, gave the institution further donations and from 1891 worked free of charge as the head physician of this institution and also of the Israelite children's sanatorium, where he was a representative of the medical district association (1904). In his will he left 10,000 marks for the “St. Marienpflege “in today's district of Hausen. He also donated for the construction of the Red Cross Column Home. He was therefore honored with honorary citizenship of the city of Bad Kissingen in 1894 and was also a bearer of high orders. With the award of an order, Diruf was also elevated to the status of personal nobility .

He was also active as an author, wrote so-called "bathing literature" and wrote an eyewitness report about the battle in Kissingen on July 10, 1866 during the German War .

Diruf was a member of the Physical-Medical Society in Würzburg from at least 1869 until his death . He was buried in the chapel cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • Via fistula ventriculo-colica. Dissertation, Erlangen 1849
  • Historical studies on the quinoidin. Bläsing Verlag, Erlangen 1851
  • Bad Kissingen with special consideration of the indications of its curatives. E. Stahl publisher, 1863
  • To honor the Kissinger drinking springs Rakoczy and Pandur in a physiological therapeutic relationship. In: Goeschen: German Clinic. 1864, p. 16f.
  • Bad Kissingen. A brief overview of his remedies and their uses. 1865
  • The Kissinger mineral waters and their application. Schachenmayer Publishing House, 1869
  • Bad Kissingen and its medicinal springs are preferably used by spa guests. Schachenmayer Verlag, Kissingen 1871, (six editions, most recently A. Stuber Verlag, 1892). - English translation: Kissingen. Its baths and mineral springs. Written principally for the use of visitors taking the waters. A. Stuber Verlag, 1887
  • About the vegetation conditions of southern Italy; with special consideration of the useful plants. J. Steib Publishing House, 1876

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The doctor from Heidelberg , Dr. Carl Jakob Diruf (1775–1869) initially settled in Würzburg in the wake of the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig . The Palatinate-Bavarian Elector Maximilian IV had appointed him his personal physician and educator. He moved to the spa town of Kissingen before 1838 and opened a practice there in house no.5 (Obere Marktstraße) (source: Kissinger address book from 1838) which he later moved to Obere Saalstraße (today: Bismarckstraße). Carl's oldest son, Dr. Gustav (I.) Diruf (1814-1858) also settled here when he came from Graefendorf , but died before his father. Oskar von Diruf's nephew, Dr. Edmund Diruf (1841–1916) took over the practice in Saalstrasse from his grandfather. During his first stay in Kissingen in 1874, Bismarck stayed in Edmund's guest house (house no. 376). (Source: Bismarck - his time and his work , 1899, p. 475) Diruf's further nephew Dr. Gustav (II.) (1845–1909), first well doctor in Bad Bocklet , had a bath doctor's practice on Kurhausstraße (“White House”). With his son Gustav (III.) (1891–1977), the 4th generation of the Diruf bath doctor dynasty ended in 1937 with his departure from Bad Kissingen.
  2. ^ The register of the University of Heidelberg , Edition 6, 1907, p. 3 ( excerpt )
  3. ↑ German Review on the Entire National Life of the Present , Volume 26, 1901, p. 204 ( excerpt )
  4. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 154.
  5. ↑ Heinrich Poschinger: Building blocks for the Bismarck pyramid. New letters and conversations from the Prince. 1904, p. 153 ( excerpt ) and 198.
  6. ^ Index of the newspaper information system of the Berlin State Library ( page no longer available , search in web archives: letter D )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
  7. ^ Report in the "Provinzial-Correspondenz" from July 15, 1874 ( excerpt )
  8. ^ Christian Wilhelm Allers, Hans Kraemer: Unser Bismarck , 1896, p. 71 ( excerpt )
  9. ↑ Peter Kastner: Finding aids of the Bavarian State Archives, Würzburg State Archives, Bad Kissingen (1821 - 1952) , 2005, p. 65 ( PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gda.bayern.de  
  10. ↑ Bäder-Almanach 1895 , 6th year, p. 207 ( excerpt )
  11. ↑ Hans Etzel: The KB 9th Infantry Regiment Wrede, 1927, p. 305 ( excerpt )
  12. ↑ Personal data according to the tombstone on the chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen.
  13. ↑ Marie's nephew was the secret medical advisor and university clinic director Prof. Friedrich Jamin (1872–1951), who as a child was often a guest at the Diruf house in Kissingen. - Source: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Volume 10, p. 327 [1] .
  14. ↑ Heinrich Poschinger: Building blocks for the Bismarck pyramid. New letters and conversations from the Prince. 1904, p. 153 ( excerpt )
  15. ^ Negotiations of the Physikalisch-Medicinische Gesellschaft zu Würzburg , Issue 1–2, 1869 ( excerpt )

literature

  • Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin / Vienna 1901, column 395/396 (digitized version )
  • Gerhard Wulz: The chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen. A guide with short biographies. Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-934912-04-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Diruf, Oskar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diruf, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German balneologist and spa doctor
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1912
Place of death Bad Kissingen