Dr. Friedrich Joseph Haass (Russian Fjodor Petrowitsch Gaass (* 10 August 1780 in the cathedral Eifel; "† 16 August 1853 in Moscow) was mentioned a GermanRussian physician, "„the holy doctor of Moscow "“. In particular he cared for convicts there over 25 years long seelsorgerisch, socially and medically. It occurred practically for a humanization of the execution of sentences. To his funeral 20,000 humans came.

Life

Haass, son of a pharmacist and grandchild of a physician, studied after conclusion of the school in Cologne, Jena and Goettingen Germanistik, philosophy and medicine. In Vienna he could be trained as the optician. One of its first patients was the Russian prince Repnin, which suffered from a heavy eye disease. It recognized Haass' gift and asked the young physician to Russia. 1806 it appeared as Fjodor Petrowitsch Gaass in Moscow. 1807 he was already appointed the Chefarzt of the renowned Pawlowskaja hospital (Pauls hospital).

During the war 1812 against Napoleon he worked as a surgeon in the Russian one army after the war returned Haass to Moscow, where he was promoted already soon to the family doctor of the Oberschicht. In addition it taught and worked voluntarily in old people's homes.

Starting from 1828 he dedicated himself as a member Muscovites of the prison protection committee 25 years long the welfare service around the prisoners, who were banished to Siberia. It was firmly convinced of the fact that humans were by nature good, because God created him after its image. Therefore humans, who got off the right way, are more unfortunately, ill nothing else as humans, who are to be healed only by humanity. This positive people picture became acquainted with he particularly by Franz of Sales, whose writings he ranked among his favourite books, above all its theological Hauptwerk "“paper over the God love"”.

1844 are opened a hospital for homeless people, which was financed by his complete private possession and private donations. Up to its end of life and worked Haass in this hospital lived.

Literature

• Dietrich M. Mathias (translation): "“My journey to the Alexanderquellen in the years 1809 and 1810 - Dr. F.J. Haass as a physician and natural scientist in the northern Caucasus"”, Shaker publishing house 2005, ISBN 383223893X

Related links

• http://www.bad-muenstereifel.de/seiten/leben_wohnen/die_stadt/Persoenlichkeiten.php#DrFriedrichJosephHaass
• http://www.haass-gesellschaft.de

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