Franz Xaver von Gietl

Franz Xaver Ritter von Gietl ( born August 27, 1803 in Blenheim on the Danube, † March 19, 1888 in Munich) was a German physician.

Career

Gietl studied medicine at the universities in Landshut, Würzburg and Munich. In 1827 he received his doctorate in Munich with a pathological study of neuro ganglia. From the government he was sent in 1831 to observe the cholera in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. In 1834 he was appointed physician to the then Crown Prince and later King Maximilian II of Bavaria. In addition to this position, he worked from 1838 also as a professor at the medical clinic of the University of Munich. From 1842 to 1851 he was also director of the City Hospital left the Isar. Only at the end of the winter semester 1885/86 he presented because of progressive heart disease one of its clinical presentations.

Gietl developed an extensive publishing activity. His dissertation was followed six reports on observations of cholera, to which he later returned journalistically. 1865 and 1875 he published the typhoid, 1849, 1857 and 1870, especially on its treatment. In an essay published in 1870 he described the principles of his teachings fever.

As the district administrator of the Palatinate majority spoke out in January 1844 against an appeal of the Sisters of Charity at the "circle - poor and insane asylum " in Frankenthal and women religious defamatory of " proselytism, of immorality ( immorality ) and the waste " accused acted the MPs Bernhard Magel, pastor of Neustadt on the wine Route, immediately. He took a self-employed a " report" of the Directorate of the General Municipal Hospital of Munich, which wrote the hospital director Dr. Franz Xaver von Gietl. Herein, Dr. Gietl secures vehemently against the absurd allegations of District members and pays tribute to the sisters working there a long time highest praise. The case and the writing Gietls are recorded in the book " History of the origin, spread and effectiveness of the Order of the Sisters of Mercy " by Michael Sintzel, Manz Verlag Regensburg, 1880, pages 137-141.

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, he was made magistrate of the city of Munich in 1883 an honorary citizen.

Swell

  • Julius Pagel: Gietl, Franz Xaver Ritter von. In: General German Biography (ADB ). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig, 1904, pp. 350 f
  • Julius Pagel (ed.): Biographical Dictionary outstanding physicians of the 19th century. 1901
  • Michael Sintzel: " history of the emergence, spread and effectiveness of the Order of the Sisters of Mercy ", Manz Verlag, Regensburg, 1880, pages 137-141.
  • Physician (19th century)
  • University teachers ( Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich)
  • Honorary citizen of Munich
  • Person (Munich )
  • German
  • Born in 1803
  • Died in 1888
  • Man
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