Wilhelm Mac Neven O'Kelly from Aghrim

Wilhelm Mac Neven O'Kelly from Aghrim (* 1713 or 1714 in Ballynahown in Ireland ; † February 9, 1787 in Prague (St. Stephen's Parish) in Bohemia ) was a doctor, study director of the medical faculty of Charles University in Prague , specialist writer and Professor.

origin

The family of origin of the Mac Nevin-O'Kelly of A (u) ghrim (from the house of the Mac Neven of Crannagh) is an Irish nobility that can be traced back to Athius Mac Cnaim-hin (Mac Nevin) 1159, which comes from the family of Celtic prince of Niall-Noigiollach is said to come from.

At the beginning of the 18th century his parents Hugo Mac Nevin of Crannagh (* Dublin 1682) and Honora O'Kelly of Ballynahown came to Vienna and Prague from the house of the Lords of Hy-Maine. Wilhelm Mac Neven was born on October 13, 1750 by his great uncle, the imperial knight, court palatinate ( Comes palatinus ) and imperial herold Sir William O'Kelly d'A (u) ghrim († 1751) of Cullagh and Ballynahown, who as a supporter of the overthrown king James II had fled from England to the continent, adopted and received the old Bohemian knighthood in view of the origin from the noble family in Ireland with the award of the predicate "O'Kelly von Aghrim" and the incolation in Bohemia (dated Vienna 20 September 1753) for Wilhelm Mac-Neven of Crannagh (1713 / 1714–1887) (Bohemian Land Table Hall Books, Volume CCIV, pp. 61-63) and the Bohemian Baron (dated Vienna 14 November 1767) (Bohemian Land Table Hall Books, Volume CCXVI, Pp. 658-664).

Life

Wilhelm Freiherr (since 1767) Mac Neven O'Kelly from Aghrim et Rausenbach began studying medicine at the Charles University in Prague in 1743 , was awarded as Dr. med. Appointed Professor Extraordinarius in 1748 and Professor Ordinarius of the Medical Institutions of Prague University in 1750. There he became director of studies in the medical faculty and professor of general pathology in 1755 . From 1784 he was assessor of the censorship, university and medical commission. He earned services to scientific reforms of the medical faculty.

He enjoyed great esteem within the faculty, but is said to have been unpopular because of his severity and preference for his own compatriots. He was chairman of examinations and supervised the work of individual professors. He had the first chemical laboratory set up in the university vaults.

In addition to his teaching activities, he also practiced as the court doctor of Empress Maria Theresa . Because of his successful work as a doctor and teacher, he was promoted to the Bohemian knighthood on September 20, 1753 and to the baron status on November 14, 1767 . As a specialist writer, he was also the spiritual father of a General Health Decree for the Kingdom of Bohemia.

Wilhelm Mac Neven O'Kelly married on June 24, 1750 in Königsaal near Prague (Maria am Theyn parish in Prague) Maria Anna Rausch von Rauschenbach (died in Zrutsch on February 28, 1765), the daughter of Johann Ferdinand Ritter Raus von Rausenbach and his wife Marianne Serens von Aichenau. Her father was the owner of the castle and manorial Zrutsch and Kraseniowicz. After the wedding he called himself Wilhelm Mac Neven O'Kelly from Aghrim et Raus (s) enbach. In 1767 he inherited his father-in-law's estates, where the family spent the summer. In winter they lived in their baroque palace in Prague, built in 1770 according to plans by Johann Ignaz Palliardi , which is still called Mac Nevenovsky palác today . Her son Walliam continued the line.

progeny

• William Hugo Johann Baptist Mac Neven O'Kelly from Aghrim, * Zrutsch an der Sazau on December 1, 1758, † Prague November 13, 1813, Dr. jur. et phil., Imperial and Royal Councilor, author of a Bohemian constitutional history which described and represented the legal conception of the estates; on August 2, 1763 he married Maria Theresia von Pollinger (* Mantua?, Manetin?) on November 10, 1759, who died on August 21, 1808 in Prague. The couple had 9 children, including
  • Maria Wilhelmine, * Prague August 27, 1783, died in Linz on the Danube, married on August 2, 1802 in Prague to Heinrich Gottlob Otto Ernst Graf von Schönburg-Unterglauchau, from the noble house, died on December 9, 1817.
  • William Eduard (1786–1840), Kk Uhlan Lieutenant Colonel, unmarried
  • Friedrich Ernst, (1789–1838), Kk Jäger-Major, 1808–1809 ensign of the Prague Academic Volunteer Legion against France, unmarried
  • Ludwig Achilles, * Prague June 16, 1795, died in Laibach in der Krain on January 14, 1873, Kk Gubernialrat, married in Thurn near Laibach on November 4, 1835 to Viktorie Elisabeth Freiin Codelli von Codellisberg, Fahnenfeld and Sternreif. The couple has three daughters and a son:
• Franz Wilhelm Mac Neven of Crannagh-Mac Neven, Baron Mac Neven-Kelly von Aughrim, heir of Ballynahown (1849–1918), Kuk treasurer and lieutenant of the reserve, Kk Hofrat in Klagenfurt , married to Eleonore Montfort di Laurito from the house of Monteforte dei duchi di Laurito, marchesi di San Giuliano, Kk star cross order lady (1854–1922), daughter of Johann Baptist Count von Montfort di Laurito, field marshal lieutenant and Kk chamberlain, married to Sophie, Princess von Thurn and Taxis from the Lautschin family, the II. line of the imperial princely House of Thurn and Taxis (Bohemian Inkolat Vienna September 18, 1797 and Baden July 4, 1829). Their son:
• Hugo Maria Franz Wilhelm Johann Ludwig, * 1875, the last bearer of the Mac Neven of Crannagh-Mac Neven name, died in Brazil in 1939, was Kuk treasurer and Rittmeister retired. D., married in 1917 to Margit Freiin Reinlein von Marienburg (* 1891), department store directrice in São Paulo, Brazil

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Mac Neven Okelly from Aghrim, Wilhelm Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1867, p. 221 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families . Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2 , pp. 176-174, line Mac Nevin-O'Kelly by A (u) ghrim (from Mac Neven of Crannagh)
• The coats of arms of the Bohemian nobility, J. Siebmacher's Grosses Wappenbuch. Volume 30, Neustadt an der Aisch 1979, ISBN 3-87947-030-8 , p. 78, Mac-Nevin (pronounced: Mac Neven) O'Kelly von Aghrim, coat of arms 48
• Heribert Sturm (Ed.): Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) . Volume II, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52551-4 , p. 538.
• Douglas O'Donell: The Ancestry, Families and Deeds of Austrian Generals of Irish Descent in the Seven Years War . University of Vienna, 1998, p. 132 f. (Unpublished thesis).
• Davis Coakley, Zdenek Kalvach: Doctors in exile. William MacNeven O'Kelly (1713-1787) and William James MacNeven (1763-1841). In: Helga Robinson-Hammerstein (Ed.): Migrating Scholars. Lines of contact between Ireland and Bohemia . Dublin 1998, pp. 81-115.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Rudolf Johann von Meraviglia-Crivelli : Böhmischer Adel : Böhmischer Adel . (Siebmacher's Wappenbuch IV / 9). Nuremberg 1886, p. 78.