Anton de Haen

Anton de Haen ( born December 8, 1704 The Hague ( Netherlands); † September 4, 1776 in Vienna) was an Austrian physician of Dutch origin, who was appointed as the first Executive Board of the Medical Clinic at the University of Vienna.

Life

De Haen studied medicine in Leiden and qualified as a doctor in his hometown. He ran his own practice and operational scientific studies. After he was brought by his former classmate Gerard van Swieten, the personal physician of Maria Theresia, from the Netherlands in 1754 to Vienna, he became Professor of the First Medical Clinic of the University of Vienna in the Civil Hospital, which he organized after the model of his teacher Hermann Boerhaave. He had to transfer the right of all Viennese hospitals patients for teaching at his clinic. In the style of his teacher Boerhaave, away from the textbook, to the patient, was taught at this clinic at the bedside. For the first time this clinic also had a research contract of the task of teaching. After the clinical method of teaching in medicine was to not practiced at that time at German universities, de Haen was a co-founder of the Vienna School of Medicine. In addition, he took over after the death of van Swieten his position as personal physician of Maria Theresia. As a scientist, wrote de Haen several pamphlets in which he spoke out against various theories such as Albrecht Haller Irritabilitätslehre. He laid great emphasis on the patient observation and explored the numerous forms of fevers. He already turned to the combined temperature and pulse measurement and wrote on behalf van Swieten a 18- volume treatise on the fevers occurring in Vienna ( "Ratio medendi in nosocomio practico ").

In 1972 ( 22nd District ) was named after him in the Haengasse Vienna Danube city.

Works

• Aletophilorum quorundam Viennensium elucidatio necessaria Epistolae de cicuta. J. Th von Trattner, Vindobonae in 1766. ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )