Ivan Horbachevsky
Ivan ( Johann Jan ) Horbaczewski (* 1854 in Zarubice [ Zarubińce ] at Zbraz, Circle Tarnopol, Galicia, Austria - Hungary, † May 24, 1942 in Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, German Empire ) was a significant Ukrainian chemists (organic Chemistry and Biochemistry ) and 1918 first Minister of Health in Austria and Europe.
Life
He was born the son of a Greek Catholic priest Jan Horbaczewski, who belonged to the Ruthenian ( Ukrainian = ) Nationality Old Austria. He attended the Polish language school in Tarnopol (today Ukraine, Ruthenian schools existed ) and graduated from 1872 to 1878 to study medicine at the University of Vienna. During his studies, and after that he was on 1 Institute of Chemistry at the Institute of Physiology and the Institute of medicinal chemistry worked. After military service as a one-year volunteer, which he made in 1880 and finished as reserve lieutenant, he was appointed by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1883 as an associate and full professor in 1884, which was founded in Prague in 1882 Czech Charles-Ferdinand University. In 1885 he was the first to synthesise creatinine in vitro. In 1902 he was awarded the title Councilor. 1902/1903 he was rector of his university. He was friends with a native of the same area and the same background Galicia physicist Ivan Puluj, who died in Prague in 1918.
In 1909 he was appointed a member of the manor house of the Austrian Imperial Council for life by the Emperor. By August 30, 1917, he was, for the time being as a minister without portfolio, Emperor Charles I to the Ministry Seidler, headed by Ernst von Seidler kk Government Cisleithania appointed. His office, in which he prepared the Public Health Ministry, he had in early 1918 to address 1, Salztorgasse 1, and 1, respectively, Jews number 11 (former Bohemian Court Chancellery, at that time the seat of the Imperial Ministry of the Interior, who led a health section ).
On November 24, 1917, the emperor approved the proposal from the government Seidler with the highest hand writing the establishment of the Ministry of Public Health. In a brief, sanctioned by the Emperor on July 27, 1918 Law of the Imperial Parliament granted the authorization to the designated shifts of responsibility. In since July 25, 1918 Acting Ministry Hussarek, the Horbaczewski belonged to the first few days even without portfolio, he was born on July 30, 1918 by the emperor kk Minister of Public Health appointed. On August 10, the new ministry in Vienna took first, Gluckgasse 1, the official operation. It was the first such department in the whole of Europe. Horbaczewski remained in the Ministry Lammasch, on the October 27, 1918 appointed last imperial government in office.
End of October 1918 the Danube Monarchy dissolved. In constituted on October 30, 1918 State of German Austria in office from that day on, the state government Renner I with Dr. Ignaz Kaup, previously Head of Section at the Ministry as Secretary of State ( Minister = ) for public health. This Horbaczewski now handed the German Austrian business of his ministry. He himself remained, as the whole k.k. Government, at the request of the Emperor formally in office until the monarch on 11 November 1918 announced his renunciation of any share in the affairs of state and the government dismissed.
Ivan Horbaczewski was retired from the Czechoslovak Republic, which was established on October 28, 1918, the same year as a university professor. In 1923 he was established as rector of the Ukrainian Free University in Vienna in 1921 and worked in Prague since the autumn of 1921, was elected.
In a building of the Medical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague is located in Prague's New Town Kateřinská a Ukrainian and Czech inscribed plaque with a portrait Horbaczewskis.
Works (selection)
- About the products resulting from the action of hydrochloric acid from the albuminoids products of decomposition. Vienna 1880
- January Horbaczewski, F. KANERA: On the influence of glycerol, sugar and fat on the excretion of uric acid in humans. Vienna 1886