Paul Cartellieri

Paul Cartellieri, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1854

Paul Cartellieri (born April 22, 1807 in Vienna , † July 17, 1881 in Franzensbad ) was a spa doctor and honorary citizen of the city of Franzensbad in western Bohemia.

Life

Cartellieri spent his youth in Raudnitz in Bohemia, an ancestral seat of the Lobkowicz Princely House , where his father Antonio Casimir Cartellieri was a court musician. As a graduate of the high school in Leitmeritz and study of medicine at the University of Prague , Paul Cartellieri received his doctorate in medicine with Julius Vincenz von Krombholz .

Paul Cartellieri initially worked as a manorial and cholera doctor in the service of the Princely House of Kinsky in their reign of Böhmisch Kamnitz and from 1848 as a sovereign fountain doctor in Franzensbad. He is considered the discoverer of the steel source there. In addition, he introduced the pumps designed by the Komotau designer Tobler to extract the spring water. He recognized the physical law according to which the water flow from the springs in Franzensbad is inversely related to the respective barometer reading. His geophysical research on the source inflow is still valid today. For his services he was appointed Imperial Councilor and honorary citizen of the spa town of Franzensbad.

family

Cartellieri's parents were the composer and conductor Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (1772–1807) and Franziska Kraft. Paul Cartellieri was married to Wilhelmine Kraft. The marriage had eleven sons and one daughter. The following are known of the children:

• Josef Cartellieri (born February 19, 1849 - † August 6, 1909), general practitioner
• Friedrich Cartellieri (born November 27, 1855 - † November 28, 1932), notary
• Franziska Cartellieri, wife of the doctor Andreas Buberl
• Wilhelm Cartellieri (born June 23, 1860 - † May 29, 1908), philologist and scholar of antiquity

Works (selection)

• The Franzensquelle in Franzensbad and the atmospheric air pressure. A contribution to the physics of mineral springs . Eger 1860
• The saline iron mineral mud baths
• The healing powers of the Kaiser Franzensbad. Monograph of the mineral mud baths to Franzensbad
• The steel source in Franzensbad
• The climate and the remedies of Franzensbad
• Longing for the Egerland . A song. These publications appeared in: Calendar for the Egerland , Eger 1911

literature

• Biographical encyclopedia on the history of the Bohemian countries , edited on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) by Heribert Sturm , Munich Vienna 1979, Volume 1, p. 184
• Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biografisches Lexikon , Männedorf / ZH 1985, Volume 1, p. 9
• Franz Jahnel: The mineral springs in the historic Egerland . In: Heimatkreis Eger - history of a German landscape in documentations and memories, Amberg 1981, pp. 61–73
• Our Egerland , 1925, p. 45
• Calendar for the Egerland , Eger 1911