Franz Gerhard Wegeler
Physician, Author
1765 – 1848
Who was Franz Gerhard Wegeler?
Franz Gerhard Wegeler was a German physician from Bonn, who was a childhood friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. He was the father of historian Julius Stephan Wegeler.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn and Vienna. After finishing his studies in Austria, he returned to Bonn, where he became a tenured professor of legal medicine and obstetrics. In 1794 he fled Bonn during the French Revolutionary Wars, returning to Vienna, where he renewed his friendship with Beethoven. After spending two years in Vienna, he moved back to Bonn as an instructor and a general practitioner of medicine.
In 1807 he relocated to Koblenz, where he joined the Prussian civil service and attained several prestigious awards.
A distinguished doctor, Wegeler is remembered for his 1838 biography of Beethoven, being published with composer Ferdinand Ries eleven years after Beethoven's death. Historians consider these memoirs to be an important and reliable source of information in regards to the life of the great composer.
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