Romeo Seligmann
{{short description|Austrian physician}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Seligmann, Franz Romeo
| image =
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Grave of the Seligmann family (Franz Romeo, wife Theresia and son Adalbert) with Latin inscription on the Döblinger cemetery
| birth_date = 30 June 1808
| birth_place = Mikulov
| death_date = {{death date and age|1892|09|15|1808|06|30|df=y}}
| death_place = Vienna
| occupation = Austrian doctor and medical historian
| alma_mater = University of Vienna
}}
Abraham Romeo Seligmann better known as Franz Romeo SeligmannKarl Holubar: Seligmann, Abraham Romeo. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (ed.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin /New York City 2005, {{ISBN|3-11-015714-4}}, p. 1318. (born 30 June 1808 in Nikolsburg, today Mikulov, in Moravia; died 15 September 1892 in Vienna), was an Austrian doctor and medical historian.
Life
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Seligmann was born to a Jewish family in Nikolsburg, the son of Dr. Isaak Seligmann. He changed his name from Abraham to Franz upon his conversion to Catholicism. He began his studies at the age of 17 at University of Vienna, where he studied medicine and languages and learned Persian in order to read an old medical manuscript for his dissertation, ("De re medica Persarum", 1830). Later he published an excerpt from the second part of the manuscript: "Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae auctore Abu Mansur., Epitome etc." (Pars I, II, Vienna 1830, 33), together with a German short version. In 1860 the Vienna k. k. State Printing Facsimile with commentary appear: "Codex Vindobonensis sive medici Abu Mansur ... liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae".
In addition to his work as a medical historian Seligmann worked as a cholera doctor and took up art history studies. Over a five-year period around this time, Seligmann worked as a junior doctor at the General Hospital, while he also moved in an academic circle around Karl von Holtei, Franz Grillparzer, Ludwig August Frankl von Hochwart, Eduard von Bauernfeld, Eduard von Feuchtersleben and Franz von Schober and developed a close relationship with Ottilie von Goethe. In 1869 he became a full professor at the University of Vienna and he also carried out ethnographic examinations (especially on skulls) – at this time phrenology was fashionable and Seligmann had fragments of Beethoven's skull. Seligmann retired in 1879. His only son was the painter Adalbert Seligmann.
Honors
Literature
- {{ÖBL|12|154|155|Seligmann, Franz Romeo (Abraham, Romeo)|D. Angetter}}
- {{cite journal|last=Wurzbach |first=Constantin von | title=Seligmann, Romeo (Digitalisat) | journal=Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich |volume=34| place=Wien| publisher=Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei | year=1877| pages= 50–53| url=http://www.literature.at/viewer.alo?objid=11782&page=54&scale=3.33&viewmode=fullscreen}}
- {{citation|last=Muwaffiq ibn ʻAlī al-Harawī| title=Kitāb al-abniyah ʻan ḥaqāʼiq al-adwiyah|series=Codices selecti phototypice impressi, v. 35.|translator-last=Seligmann|translator-first=Franz Romeo|editor-last=Talbot|editor-first=C. H.|place=Graz, Austria| publisher=Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt| year=1972| edition=English}}
- {{NDB|24|221|222|Seligmann, Franz Romeo|Daniela Angetter|11765633X}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category | Franz Romeo Seligmann | Romeo Seligmann}}
- [http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/histmed/seligmann_biographie.htm Short Biography]
- [https://www.funeralwise.com/digital-dying/how-beethovens-skull-got-to-san-jose/ How Beethoven's Skull got to San Jose]
- [http://www.viennatouristguide.at/Friedhoefe/Doebling/pers_doebl/seligmann_E.htm Honorary grave Romeo Seligmann at the cemetery Döbling – viennatouristguide.at]
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Category:19th-century Austrian people
Category:19th-century Czech people
Category:Austrian orientalists
Category:Austrian medical historians
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Category:Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Category:Physicians from Austria-Hungary
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Category:Austrian people of Jewish descent
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