Friedrich Joseph Haass

Physician

1780 – 1853

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Who was Friedrich Joseph Haass?

Dr Friedrich Joseph Haass 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.

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Born
Aug 10, 1780
Bad Münstereifel
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Died
Aug 16, 1853
Moscow

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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