Sebastian Weberitsch

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Sebastian Weberitsch (born May 21, 1870 in St. Veit an der Glan , † April 2, 1946 in Althofen ) was an Austrian doctor and author .

Life

Sebastian Weberitsch's entry in the South Tyrolean telephone directory from 1925 (Bozen)

Sebastian Weberitsch attended the lower level of the grammar school in the Benedictine monastery of Sankt Paul im Lavanttal , the fifth and sixth grade of the grammar school in Klagenfurt and the seventh and eighth grade in Trieste . There he passed the Matura in 1889. After a year as a one-year volunteer in the military in Graz , he studied medicine in Vienna and received his doctorate on December 23, 1897. During his studies in 1891 he became a member of the Silesia Vienna fraternity .

From 1900 to 1925 Weberitsch worked as a specialist in surgery and gynecology in Bolzano , as well as a permanent position as a medical consultant at the Südbahn . The fascists had been in power in Bolzano since 1922 , and Weberitsch, who did not have Italian citizenship and was denied this at his request, was expelled from South Tyrol in 1925 .

He moved to Baden near Vienna and continued his medical practice there until 1945. In connection with the war events, Sebastian Weberitsch moved his residence to Althofen in Carinthia , his wife's hometown. He died there on April 2, 1946.

Their son, the architect Wolfgang Weberitsch, came from the marriage of Sebastian and Paula Weberitsch. He died in 1991 in Klagenfurt, where his widow Annemarie lived until her death.

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His memoirs first appeared in 1924 in the publishing house for cultural policy in Munich . In eight chapters they describe his childhood in St. Veit an der Glan up to his studies in Vienna and the subsequent move to Bozen. This edition was soon out of print and is now considered a standard historical work because of its precise description. The book describes the period from 1875 to 1900 and stretches from St. Veit an der Glan, Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, Klagenfurt, Trieste to Vienna.

Weberitsch had been working on a sequel since the first part was published, but never brought it to a conclusion. When he died, the existing records lasted until he moved to Baden near Vienna in 1925. In agreement with Paula Weberitsch, the widow, the existing records including the first part, which had already been published, were divided into three parts and republished. The first part (290 book pages) remained roughly in the version from 1925. The second part was divided into eleven chapters (109 pages) and the third part into 22 chapters (162 book pages). The two new parts cover roughly the years 1903–1925 and give a historical and socio-cultural insight into the last years of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , the First World War and the interwar period up to the first days of Italian fascism in South Tyrol .

literature

  • Sebastian Weberitsch: From the life of Doctor Sebastian Weberitsch (364 pages). Verlag für Kulturpolitik, Munich 1924.
  • Sebastian Weberitsch: From the life of Doctor Sebastian Weberitsch (568 pages). Ferdinand Kleinmayr publishing house, Klagenfurt 1947.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 255.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Weberitsch: Chronology HUGUET, Louis, Munich Edition, 1995, p 120
personal data
SURNAME Weberitsch, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Veit an der Glan
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1946
Place of death Althofen