In the history of medicine, Friedrich Joseph Haass is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Friedrich Joseph Haass as Russian physician.
Friedrich Joseph Haass was born at Bad Münstereifel in 1780. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at University of Jena and University of Göttingen.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
The recorded fields of work are medicine, charity and the study of thermal baths.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Recognition followed: Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class (1811) and Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class.
That the work was done from Russia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Friedrich Joseph Haass died in 1853, aged 73. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class — 1811
- Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class
- Fields: medicine, charity and the study of thermal baths
