Rudolph von Vivenot (father)

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Rudolf von Vivenot. Lithograph by Giacomo Marastoni , 1867

Rudolph Philipp Franz Vivenot , Edler von Vivenot from 1832 , Knight von Vivenot from 1867 (born July 3, 1807 in Vienna , † June 30, 1884 at Gut Berghof near Lilienfeld ) was an Austrian doctor and surgeon .

Life

family

Vivenot came from a French family who came to Austria in the 18th century. His father, Dominik de Vivenot , a doctor practicing in Vienna and a member of the medical faculty of the University of Vienna , was elevated to the Austrian nobility with his family on May 6, 1832 with a diploma from April 22, 1833 as nobleman von Vivenot and received that too in 1836 Hungarian indigenous people . His mother was Franziska Edle von Vogel.

Vivenot married Josefine Freiin Metzger von Metzburg (born November 27, 1810 in Lemberg , † July 16, 1838 in Mauer ) on May 16, 1832 in Vienna , the daughter of the Imperial and Royal Vice President of the General Accounting Directorate Johann Freiherr Metzger von Metzburg and Antonie Wadawska. From this marriage, the sons Rudolph , later professor of climatology at the University of Vienna, and the Imperial and Royal Legation Councilor Alfred von Vivenot are known. Three years after the death of his first wife, Vivenot married Antonie Berger von Bergenthal (* 1820 in Forst; 14 December 1846 in Vienna) on December 22, 1841 in Forst (Bohemia). More than three years after her death, on February 6, 1850, he married the opera singer Mathilde Swatosch (1825-1892) for the third time . From this marriage came the later Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal Lieutenant Oscar von Vivenot (1859-1932).

Professional background

Vivenot studied medicine at the University of Vienna and was in 1830 with his work Dissertatio Inauguralis Anatomica De Vasis Hepatis (Verlag C. Gerold, Vienna 1830) PhD . He became one of the most sought-after and popular doctors in Vienna . In 1848, together with Julius von Zerboni de Sposetti, he founded the constitutional-monarchist association from which a patriotic Austrian party was to emerge. When nothing came of it, Vivenot withdrew from the political scene.

Kk was Vivenot Councilor and Councilor , and a founding member of the Society of Physicians in Vienna . On March 25, 1867 he was awarded the Iron Crown Order III. Class at the same time raised to the Austrian knighthood. In his private life he also excelled as a composer - he had studied with the composer Carl Czerny - and as a writer.

After his death at Berghof Castle in Lilienfeld in Lower Austria - he had bought the estate in 1854 - he was buried in the Weidlinger Friedhof .

meaning

Vivenot's lasting merit lies in the establishment of the Sophienspital in Vienna. In 1872 he headed a committee whose task it was to fulfill the legacy of Count Eduard Kenyon , who died in 1856, to found a hospital with his estate. Vivenot was also the director of the Widows and Orphans Support Association of the Medical Doctoral College. In 1894 Esbachgasse in Vienna- Meidling was renamed Vivenotgasse after him .

Works

  • Vivenot autograph collection, founded by Rudolf Ritter von Vivenot (1807-1884) , with the original manuscripts of the festschrift for the tenth anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Josef, Volume 1 by Varia, Antiquariat Inlibris, Vienna 2004.
  • Dissertatio Inauguralis Anatomica De Vasis Hepatis , Verlag C. Gerold, Vienna 1830 ( MDZ Reader ).
  • Hints about Gastein and its institutions in Wildbad and Hofgastein for doctors and spa guests , Vienna 1839 ( MDZ Reader ).
  • The sulfur . A new cure for cholera used by American doctors . Vienna 1850 ( Austrian Library Association ).
  • Composition In the night , text Adolf Ritter von Tschabuschnigg.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All information according to GHdA B VIII, 1968.
  2. ↑ Memorabilia from Old Austria , Volume 10
  3. ↑ Memorabilia from Old Austria , Volume 10
  4. ↑ Constant von Wurzbach: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich , Volume 3, Vienna 1858, page 105 digitized
  5. ↑ Entry about Berghof Lilienfeld on Burgen-Austria
personal data
SURNAME Vivenot, Rudolph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vivenot, Rudolf Philipp Franz Ritter and Edler von (full name); Vivenot, Rudolph Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1884
Place of death near Lilienfeld