Wilhelm Winternitz

Wilhelm Winternitz

The department heads of the General Polyclinic in Vienna around 1885.
From left, seated:
Alois Monti , Johann Schnitzler , Robert Ultzmann , Jakob Hock , Samuel Siegfried Karl von Basch ;
Standing from left:
August Leopold von Reuss , Emil Stoffella , Wilhelm Winternitz, Leopold Oser , Anton von Frisch , Hans von Hebra , Ludwig Fürth , Moriz Benedikt , Viktor Urbantschitsch , Max Herz , Anton Wölfler , Ludwig Bandl

Grave of Wilhelm Winternitz in the Old Jewish Department of the Vienna Central Cemetery

Wilhelm Winternitz (born March 1, 1834 in Josephstadt , Bohemia (today: Czech Republic), † February 22, 1917 in Vienna ) was an Austrian internist , hydrotherapist and balneologist . With his work The hydrotherapy on a physiological and clinical basis , he founded physical therapy in 1877 and thus the foundations of modern physiotherapy .

Life

Winternitz studied medicine in Prague and Vienna, where he was a student of Johann von Oppolzer , Josef von Škoda and the other Viennese medical greats. In 1857 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He qualified as a lecturer in hydrotherapy at the Vienna Medical Faculty in 1865. His second habilitation for internal medicine took place in 1874. In 1881 he was appointed associate professor and since 1899 was a full professor .

As with his habilitation based on the methods of Vincenz Prießnitz , whose cold water therapy he had met under Prießnitz's successor Joseph Schindler (1814–1890), Winternitz expanded his hydropathic cold water cure method to modern hydrotherapy and founded the second cold water sanatorium in Kaltenleutgabe in 1865 and later "Wasserheilanstalt Professor Winternitz", a so-called. Spa. In 1899 Winternitz was appointed the first head of the hydrotherapeutic clinic in the General Polyclinic in Vienna , where he had already set up a hydrotherapeutic station in 1872 and to which he had affiliated his own hydrotherapy institute in the Vienna Woods . At the same time he received the first chair for hydratics / hydrotherapy applied for for him in 1896 at a German-speaking university. Winternitz published a large number of scientific articles and monographs mainly in connection with hydrotherapy. Among other things, he was the editor of the “Blätter für Klinische Hydrotherapy und related healing methods”, which appeared monthly under this title from 1891 to 1908, then renamed “Blätter für clinical hydrotherapy and physical healing methods” (until 1910).

Wilhelm Winternitz's grave is located in the Old Jewish Department of the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gate 1, Group 52A, Row 1, No. 14); the year of birth is given as 1835.

Publications

• Kaltenleutenken and my water sanatorium. 1869.
• Hydrotherapy on a physiological and clinical basis. 2 volumes, 1877/80
• Hydrotherapy and natural immunity. 1917.
• Sheets for clinical hydrotherapy and related healing methods. 1891-1908.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Winternitz, Wilhelm . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 57th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1889, pp. 92–95 ( digitized version ).
• J [ulius Leopold] Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, column 1867–1868.
• Karl Eduard Rothschuh : Naturopathic Movement, Reform Movement, Alternative Movement. Stuttgart 1983; Reprint Darmstadt 1996, pp. 77, 104 and more.
• Hubertus Averbeck: From cold water therapy to physical therapy. Reflections on people and at the time of the most important developments in the 19th century. Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86741-782-2 , pp. 10, 535-537 and 1165 f.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Winternitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wilhelm Winternitz in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Literature by and about Wilhelm Winternitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Wilhelm Winternitz in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gundolf Keil: Medical Education and Alternative Medicine. In: Winfried Böhm , Martin Lindauer (ed.): “Not much knowledge saturates the soul”. Knowledge, recognition, education, training today. (= Third Symposium of the University of Würzburg. ) Ernst Klett, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-12-984580-1 , pp. 245-271, here: p. 254.
2. ↑ Michael Sachs with Gabriele Rudolf and Andreas Kurschelis (eds.): Historisches Ärztelexikon für Schlesien. Biographical-bibliographical lexicon of Silesian doctors and surgeons (surgeons). Volume 1 ff., Wunstorf 1997 ff., Volume 3 f. (2002–2006), Frankfurt am Main, Volume 5 ff., Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm 2011 ff., Here: Volume 6 (2015), p. 79.
3. ^ Gundolf Keil : Vegetarian. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 29–68, here: p. 42.
4. ↑ Kaltwasseranstalt Winternitz on RegiowikiAT accessed on April 5, 2015.
5. ^ Robin Price: Hydropathy in England 1840-70. In: Medical History. Vol 25, 1981, p. 279. PMC 1139039 (free full text)
6. ^ Richard Metcalfe: Life of Vincent Priessnitz, Founder of Hydropathy . Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., London 1898, pp. Xii, 173-178, 211. Online text
7. ^ Gundolf Keil: Vegetarian. 2015 (2016), p. 42.