Josef von Löschner
Josef Wilhelm Freiherr von Löschner ( born May 7, 1809 in Kaaden, † April 19, 1888 in Welchau ) was an Austrian physician, rector of Charles University in Prague and imperial personal physician.
Life
After his secondary school education in Kaaden and Komotau Löschner began studying medicine in Prague. In 1834 he received his doctorate at the Medical College in Prague for Dr. med and received a professorship at the Medical Faculty of Charles University, whose rector he was from 1862 to 1863.
Löschner, who had since 1850 winner of the Franz Joseph Order, 1862, appointed Landesmedizinalrat and 1865 as a Councillor of the personal physician of Emperor Franz Joseph I.. 1868, he joined because of an eye disease in retirement and received from the Emperor the Knight's Cross of the Order of St. Stephen awarded. 1870 Löschner was raised to Baron. In 1888 he died at Castle Welchau.
Special merits earned balneologist Löschner through its sponsorship of Bohemian spa healing system and the drinking cure. So is attributed to him, among other things, to have contributed significantly to the spread of awareness of the spa and health resort Karlovy Vary Bilin. In 1859 he also published a paper on the Biliner Sauerbrunnen, which he treated as a first baths in the spa town of Bilin.
The Franz Joseph Children's Hospital in Prague was created by a foundation extinguishing agent.
Writings
- The Gießhübler Sauerbrunn, 1846
- The dispatch of Karlovy Vary mineral springs, 1847
- The Saidschitzer Bitter Water, 1853
- The effects of Saidschitzer bittern, 1853
- The Sauerbrunnen to Bilin in Bohemia described therapeutically, 1859
- Johannisbad in Bohemia Giant Mountains, 1859
- The Sauerbrunnen to Bilin in Bohemia described therapeutically, 1859
- Reviews of Balneology from the spas of Bohemia, 1862
- Balneologische sketch of Děčín, 1862
- The iron waters of Königswart, 1865
- Teplice and the neighboring spas, 1867