Wilhelm Svetlin

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Wilhelm Svetlin (born May 5, 1849 in Vienna ; † August 24, 1914 there ) was an Austrian physician and psychiatrist .

Honor roll at the District Court of Windischgarsten .

Life

Svetlin attended the Schottengymnasium and completed a medical degree at the University of Vienna , which he completed in 1873 as the first graduate of all medicine. In 1878, after Therese Pabst's death, he and his specialist colleague Johann Zimmermann took over their private insane asylum in the former Rasumovsky Castle at Erdberger Strasse  7. From 1880, he ran it under the name "Svetlin Private Hospitals for the Mentally Ill and Mentally Ill ". In 1883/84 he moved the institute to the  private institution he built at Leonhardgasse 3–5 (and which existed until the end of 1925); expanded until 1890, this could admit up to 60 inpatients. His patients included the composer Hugo Wolf , the painter Carl Schuch and the actor Karl Wilhelm Meixner .

Svetlin was also one of the initiators of the establishment of the "Heilanstalt für Brustkranke" (lung sanatorium for tuberculosis patients) in Groisbach (municipality of Alland) and was committed to caring for neglected children.

Svetlin is an honorary citizen of the community of Windischgarsten , he had three springs built in the village for the water supply and the kindergarten.

Svetlin was buried in the Hietzingen cemetery .

Fonts

  • The question of women and the medical profession. Deuticke, Leipzig / Vienna 1895.
  • The private sanatorium for the mentally ill on the Erdberge near Vienna. Report on their history and activities on the occasion of the fifty-year existence and the relocation to a new institution building. Braumüller, Vienna 1884.
  • Report on the private sanatorium for the mentally ill on the Erdberge in Vienna. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna a. Leipzig 1891.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Svetlin, Wilhelm. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 71.
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Svetlin's tomb viennatouristguide.at
personal data
SURNAME Svetlin, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physician and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1914
Place of death Vienna