Review article

https://doi.org/10.21857/90836czg5y

Head Surgeon Johann Bönisch and the Letter to his Wife Julia from the Battlefield in 1849

Dubravko Habek orcid.org/0000-0002-7675-7064 ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana Horbec orcid.org/0000-0002-4898-2555 ; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The paper presents professional and personal information on head surgeon Johann (Ivan) Bönisch, who was active in Bjelovar as hospital surgeon and district physician. He worked as head surgeon with permanent office in both regiments belonging to Bjelovar – first in Đurđevac, and later in Križevci. The paper includes the integral letter Bönisch sent to his wife Julia in translation from the German language. The letter was written in 1849 in the Sirmium battlefield, where he worked as battalion surgeon. Using emotional literary expression, he offers information on army activities, and sanitary and military circumstances in battlefields in the mid-19th century

Keywords

Bjelovar; 19th century; Ivan Bönisch; head surgeon; personal letters; history

Hrčak ID:

290448

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/290448

Publication date:

23.12.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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