Johann Baptist Malfatti von Monteregio
Johann Baptist Malfatti, Edler von Monte Regio, baptized as Giovanni Domenico Antonio Malfatti ( born June 12, 1775 in Lucca, Italy, † September 12, 1859 in Hietzing in Vienna, Austria ) was an Italian- Austrian physician.
Life
The merchant's son Johann Malfatti studied medicine at Luigi Galvani in Bologna and Pavia with Johann Peter Frank, whom he succeeded in 1795 to Vienna to take a job as assistant physician at the Vienna General Hospital. He received his doctorate in 1797, founded 1802, the Society of Physicians in Vienna and made in 1804 with a private practice independently. In 1809 he published the natural philosophical work draft pathogeny of the evolution and revolution of life.
During the Congress of Vienna, he enjoyed a great reputation and became the personal physician of Archduke Karl and Archduchess Maria Beatrice of Modena -Este. On December 31, 1821 Malfatti married in Vienna, the Polish Countess Helena Ostrowska ( 1794-1826 ). In 1822 the Archduchess godmother of his first daughter and granted him a pension for life. In 1830 he also oversaw the Duke of Imperial City. His house on Küniglberg in Hietzing inspired Malfatti to his noble title " Edler von Monte Regio", which he received on April 10, 1837 for his services to science.
Ludwig van Beethoven was known with Malfatti since 1809 and consulted with him during the following years several times. Malfatti advised Beethoven in 1811 to a spa in Teplitz. For the name-day celebration of his physician on June 24, 1814 at his home in the suburb of Weinhaus Beethoven composed the cantata WoO 103 Un lieto Brindisi. In April 1817 came because of Beethoven's distrust at a fraction between the two and Beethoven took Malfatti services until ten years later, during his last illness again in the future, which does not, however, fulfill his hopes of a cure.
Malfatti acquired together with his colleague Franz Wirer Rettenbach great contributions to the discovery of Austrian spas such as Bad Ischl and Bad Vöslau. With the philosopher Franz von Baader and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and the philosophical naturalist Lorenz Oken and the physician and medical philosopher Ignaz Paul Vitalis Troxler Malfatti was in personal contact.
He was in an honorary dedicated grave in the cemetery Hietzinger (group 3, number 5) buried. In Vienna Hietzing (13th district) of Malfattisteig is named after him.
Writings
- Draft pathogeny of the evolution and revolution of life. Vienna 1809.
- Studies of anarchy and hierarchy of knowledge with special reference to the medicine. Leipzig in 1845, Paris in 1849.
- Malfatti 's new therapy trials: 1 Successful extermination of gray cataract by a new external method of healing; 2 Frequent emergence of black cataract from the Raphagra. Knowledge and treatment of this, as other ( just as often misunderstood ) diseases of Schedel - sutures. Vienna 1847