Otto Eiser

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Otto Heinrich Eiser (born October 29, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 27, 1898 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German doctor and writer .

Life

Born as the son of a general practitioner , Eiser studied medicine in Marburg and Berlin . During his studies in 1852 he became a member of the old Marburg fraternity Germania . In 1855 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD .

Eiser worked as an assistant doctor in Würzburg before becoming a general practitioner in Frankfurt am Main in 1856. He was considered an art connoisseur and valued literature and visual arts , which he promoted until the end of his life. Eiser was the personal physician of Richard Wagner . In 1877 he founded a Wagner society in Frankfurt. He promoted the painter Hans Thoma , whose family doctor he was, and for whom he arranged portraits. Eiser maintained numerous correspondence , including with Fritz Reuter , Friedrich Nietzsche and Otto Julius Bierbaum . He retired in 1897 and died the following year.

His wife was Sophie Eiser.

Publications (selection)

  • Sanguinis circulationis historia. Dissertation Berlin 1855.
  • Suggestions about Wagner's relationship to Schopenhauer and the basic idea of ​​Christianity ... Chemnitz 1878.
  • Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is an exegitic attempt. Chemnitz 1879.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 170-171.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.historisches-museum-frankfurt.de/de/forschung/provenienzforschung/aktuelle_results/details
  2. ↑ http://www.lostart.de/Webs/EN/Datenbank/Einzelobjekt suchtDetail.html?cms_param=EOBJ_ID%3D449330%26SUCHE_ID%3D1908879%26_page%3D214%26_sort%3Dtitel_de%26_anchor% 3Did4406
personal data
SURNAME Eiser, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eiser, Otto Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1898
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau