Josef Seegen

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Josef Seegen, bust by Richard Kauffungen (1908)

Josef Seegen (born May 20, 1822 in Polna , Bohemia; † January 14, 1904 in Vienna ) was an Austrian balneologist and physiologist .

Life

Josef Seegen was the son of a Jewish businessman. He attended high school in Bratislava and studied further at the Charles University in Prague and further at the University of Vienna . In 1847 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD.

In 1848 he joined the Academic Legion , but subsequently had to leave Vienna and go to Paris , where he continued his studies under Claude Bernard . In addition, he also took lessons in geology at the Ècole des mines .

In 1850 he returned to Vienna. He came to Italy, southern France, England and Germany as a medical companion for a sick person. In 1853 he started as a spa doctor in Karlsbad and worked there until 1884. During this time, he also devoted himself increasingly to balneology . With Johann von Oppolzer (1808–1871) and the dermatologist Karl Ludwig Ritter Sigmund von Ilanor (1810–1883) the association for medicinal spring science in Austria . From 1854 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer at the University of Vienna.

In 1859 he became the first representative of this subject at the University of Vienna to be an associate professor. He examined the effect of the water from Karlsbad and the Glauber's salt , the main component of the water, on metabolism and diabetes . For this research he was allowed to use the laboratories of the Josephinum .

He was able to prove that sugar formation is linked to the life of the liver cell and is made up of protein and fat. He summarized these more than 40 years of research in the two works Studies on Metabolism in the Animal Body (1887) and in Collected Treatises on Sugar Formation in the Liver (1904).

In 1893 he resigned his teaching post and became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in 1901 .

Seegen himself donated the Josef Seegen Prize worth 6000 crowns .

In the morning hours of January 14, 1904, Josef Seegen died in his apartment at Liebenberggasse 7, Vienna- Innere Stadt , of the consequences of pneumonia. His grave, a separate crypt , is in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 16, no. 46 E).

Seegen's wife Hermine, née Böhm (born February 2, 1836 ) ran a house that was open to society together with her husband at the residences in Karlsbad, Vienna and Altaussee ; she died on November 27, 1912 .

Appreciation

On February 20, 1910, a memorial created by the sculptor Richard Kauffungen (1854–1942) was unveiled in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna . Kauffungen also created other sculptures by Josef Seegen: (1908) New Aula of the Old University (today: Columned Hall of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna); (1911) Anniversary exhibition in the Vienna Künstlerhaus .

Works

  • -, Max Schlesinger: Popular State Lexicon (political ABC for the people). Appears in weekly deliveries . Volume 1.1848. (More not published). Lechner, Vienna 1848.
  • The natural historical importance of the mineral springs. A sketch, presented to the Imperial and Royal Vienna Medical Professors' Collegium for the purpose of obtaining a habilitation as a docent in balneology at the University of Vienna . C. Gerold, Vienna 1854. - Full text online .
  • Compendium of the general and special theory of healing springs . Two volumes. Braumüller, Vienna 1857–1858.
  • Physiological-chemical studies on the influence of the Karlovy Vary mineral water on some metabolic factors . Pichler, Vienna 1861.
  • Manual of the general and special doctrine of mineral springs . Second revised edition. Braumüller, Vienna 1862. - Full text online .
  • Studies of metabolism in the animal body . Hirschwald, Berlin 1887. - Full text online .
  • The formation of sugar in the animal body, its extent, and its importance . Hirschwald, Berlin 1890. - Full text online .
  • Diabetes mellitus based on numerous observations . Third revised and enlarged edition. Hirschwald, Berlin 1893. - Full text online .
  • Collected treatises on the formation of sugar in the liver . Hirschwald, Berlin 1904.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seegen Prize . In: Virchow's archive . Volume 177.1904, ZDB -ID 1463276-7 . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1904, p. 179. - Full text online (PDF) .
  2. ↑ Professor Dr. Josef Seegen. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 14147/1904, January 14, 1904, p. 3 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  3. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Josef Seegen. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 14150/1904, January 17, 1904, p. 7, top center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  4. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Hermine Seegen. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 17339/1912, November 29, 1912, p. 12, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  5. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Unveiling of the Seegen monument at the University of Vienna. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 16334/1910, February 21, 1910, p. 7, top center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  6. ^ Olga Stieglitz, Gerhard Zeillinger: The sculptor Richard Kauffungen (1854-1942). Between Ringstrasse, Künstlerhaus and women's art school . Lang, Frankfurt and Vienna (among others) 2008, ISBN 3-631-52203-7 , p. 308.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In 1885, Seelen acquired the Villa Wagner , built by the Hungarian university professor and music lover László Wagner de Zólyom (1841–1888) , in which Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) privately made his Trio No. op. 87 had premiered. - See: Claus-Christian Schuster: Johannes Brahms . In: altenbergtrio.at , accessed on December 18, 2012. For Wagner see: Wagner László . (Hungarian).
    Today there is a romantic hotel based on Villa Wagner on the property at Fischerndorf 60, Altaussee .
  2. ↑ This work has long been considered the standard work of balneology.
personal data
SURNAME Seegen, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seegen, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian balneologist and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Polná
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1904
Place of death Vienna