Friedrich Joseph Haass
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Bad Münstereifel
Bad Münstereifel is a historical spa town in the district of Euskirchen, Germany, with about 19,000 inhabitants, situated in the far south of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia...
– August 16, 1853 in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
) was the "holy doctor of Moscow." As a member of Moscow's governmental prison committee, he spent 25 years until the end of his life to humanize the penal system. During the last nine years before his death he spent all of his assets to run a hospital for homeless people. 20,000 people attended his funeral at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery.
Sources
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6167400&dopt=Abstract
- http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienF/Friedrich_Joseph_Haass.html
- http://www.friedrich-haass-schule.de
Books
- Koni, Anatolij Fedorovic: "Doktor Friedrich Haass. Lebensskizze eines deutschen Philanthropen in Rußland," in: Zur Geschichte des russischen Gefängniswesens im 19. Jahrhundert, auf Veranlassung von Graf Gregor Stroganoff aus dem Russischen ins Deutsche übersetzt, Verlag von Duncker & Humboldt, Leipzig 1899.
See also
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