Review article
https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.19.2.7
MEDICINE IN OSIJEK DURING THE REIGN OF FRANZ JOSEPH I – THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HUTTLER-KOLHOFFER-MONSPERGER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL
Bruno Atalić
orcid.org/0000-0003-0741-9632
Ana Lučin Atalić
Jurica Toth
Abstract
The Austrian emperor and the Croat-Hungarian king Franz Joseph I (1830/1848-1916) was the longest-serving ruler of the Habsburg dynasty. Among his properties was Osijek, which since 1809 enjoyed the status of a free royal city. In the period under review, it was the seat of the Virovitica County and the capital of the Kingdom of Slavonia until its incorporation into the Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia after the Croat-Hungarian settlement of 1868. Because of this, Osijek was not only a political, economic and cultural centre but also a health care centre. At the beginning of the reign of Franz Joseph I, two hospitals were operating in it: a military one in the baroque military garrison Tvrđa and a civilian one in New Town. The most significant role in the further development of the Osijek and Slavonian health care was played by the trust established in 1806 from the legacies of innkeeper Johann Kolhoffer, tanner Josef Huttler and Jesuit Cristian Monsperger. Altho-ugh originally intended for the establishment of an orphanage, due to a number of unfavo-urable political circumstances, the trust, until then with multiple interests attributed to the principal, came under the administration of the city of Osijek only in 1867. Along with the new orphanage opened in 1874, a new hospital was completed as well in 1868, also with the money from the trust. Huttler-Kohlhoffer-Monsperger Foundation Hospital was the largest and most modern hospital in the Triune Kingdom, and despite later constructions of various hospital wards, its building has remained the most representative building within the Clini-cal-Hospital Centre Osijek.
Keywords
Osijek, Kingdom of Slavonia, Franz Joseph I, 19th century, 20th century, history of medicine
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270722
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Publication date:
13.1.2022.
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