Pochodzenie pacjentów przyjętych do szpitala bonifratrów w Cieszynie w jubileuszowym roku 1900

• Authors: Maksymilian Kuśka

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Origin of the patients admitted to the Brothers Hospitallers’ hospital in Cieszyn in a jubilee year, 1900

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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On December, 1898, two years before the 200th anniversary of its opening, the hospital led by the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God in Cieszyn reached the top of its development. The post, at the beginning being able to hold only a few, and then a dozen of patients, after the extension at the end of the 19th century was able to admit 60 patients at the same time. The extension of the hospital coincided with the intensive industrialisation of Cieszyn Silesia. The local urban area became the biggest centre of this type in Austria-Hungary. It is not surprising then that people from almost the whole monarchy, trying to find better living conditions, were migrating for work in the Duchy of Cieszyn. Thanks to the preserved patients’ records from that time it is possible to determine exactly the origins of the patients from the hospital of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God in Cieszyn. It can be stated that the patients staying in this local hospital, represented a variety of nations living in this area at that time. Apart from the natives, a medical record from 1900 mentions a significant number of the inhabitants of Moravia, Czech Republic, Galicia as well as other parts of Austrian Silesia. A smaller number of representatives comes from counties in Upper Hungary and Croatia, Austrian Tyrol, Upper and Lower Austria and, finally, foreign countries – Prussia and Russia. The article constitutes a small contribution to the study of the complex history of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God in Cieszyn. It is also a useful material for the researchers who are interested in ethnic relations in Cieszyn Silesia.

Keywords

PL

bonifratrzy; Cieszyn; Księstwo Cieszyńskie; Austro-Węgry; szpital; pacjenci

EN

Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God; Cieszyn; Duchy of Cieszyn; Austro-Hungarian Empire; hospital; patient

• Journal: Hereditas Monasteriorium
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 109-139

Contributors

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Maksymilian Kuśka

• Archiwum i Biblioteka OO. Bonifratrów w Cieszynie