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[[File:Jan Matuszynski.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Miniature portrait from life of Jan Matuszyński, c. 1840, by an unknown artist]]'''Jan Edward Aleksander Matuszyński''' ( |
[[File:Jan Matuszynski.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Miniature portrait from life of Jan Matuszyński, c. 1840, by an unknown artist]]'''Jan Edward Aleksander Matuszyński''' (14 December 1808 – Paris 20 April 1842) was a [[Polish people|Polish]] doctor, born in [[Warsaw]], who was an early friend of [[Frédéric Chopin]]. |
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Matuszyński's father Jan-Fryderyk (1768–1831) was a doctor and surgeon, and head of the Lutheran Hospital in Warsaw. Jan Matuszyński became a friend of Chopin whilst attending the [[Warsaw Lyceum]], where he was taught by Chopin's father [[Nicolas Chopin]]. Matuszyński came from a musical family; he himself played the [[flute]], and his brother Leopold (1820–1893) became an operatic [[tenor (voice)|tenor]] and director. Jan studied medicine at the [[University of Warsaw]] from 1827. He worked as a doctor for the Polish forces during the [[November Uprising]] of 1830–31, serving with the 5th Mounted Rifles, and was awarded the order [[Virtuti Militari]]. Leaving for Germany, he eventually graduated in medicine at the [[University of Tübingen]]. Emigrating to Paris in 1834, he shared at one time Chopin's apartment in the [[Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin|Chaussée d'Antin]] and gave him medical advice. He took a further medical degree in Paris, specializing in [[physiology]], and married a Frenchwoman, Caroline Boquet.<ref>Sikorski (n.d.)</ref> |
Matuszyński's father Jan-Fryderyk (1768–1831) was a doctor and surgeon, and head of the Lutheran Hospital in Warsaw. Jan Matuszyński became a friend of Chopin whilst attending the [[Warsaw Lyceum]], where he was taught by Chopin's father [[Nicolas Chopin]]. Matuszyński came from a musical family; he himself played the [[flute]], and his brother Leopold (1820–1893) became an operatic [[tenor (voice)|tenor]] and director. Jan studied medicine at the [[University of Warsaw]] from 1827. He worked as a doctor for the Polish forces during the [[November Uprising]] of 1830–31, serving with the 5th Mounted Rifles, and was awarded the order [[Virtuti Militari]]. Leaving for Germany, he eventually graduated in medicine at the [[University of Tübingen]]. Emigrating to Paris in 1834, he shared at one time Chopin's apartment in the [[Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin|Chaussée d'Antin]] and gave him medical advice. He took a further medical degree in Paris, specializing in [[physiology]], and married a Frenchwoman, Caroline Boquet.<ref>Sikorski (n.d.)</ref> |
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Jan Edward Aleksander Matuszyński (14 December 1808 – Paris 20 April 1842) was a Polish doctor, born in Warsaw, who was an early friend of Frédéric Chopin.
Matuszyński's father Jan-Fryderyk (1768–1831) was a doctor and surgeon, and head of the Lutheran Hospital in Warsaw. Jan Matuszyński became a friend of Chopin whilst attending the Warsaw Lyceum, where he was taught by Chopin's father Nicolas Chopin. Matuszyński came from a musical family; he himself played the flute, and his brother Leopold (1820–1893) became an operatic tenor and director. Jan studied medicine at the University of Warsaw from 1827. He worked as a doctor for the Polish forces during the November Uprising of 1830–31, serving with the 5th Mounted Rifles, and was awarded the order Virtuti Militari. Leaving for Germany, he eventually graduated in medicine at the University of Tübingen. Emigrating to Paris in 1834, he shared at one time Chopin's apartment in the Chaussée d'Antin and gave him medical advice. He took a further medical degree in Paris, specializing in physiology, and married a Frenchwoman, Caroline Boquet.[1]
In 1837 he published a treatise, "De l'influence du nerf sympathique sur les fonctions des sens (On the Influence of the Sympathetic nervous system on the Functions of the Senses)." He died of tuberculosis; in his last days Chopin and George Sand had him cared for at the rooms they shared in Rue Pigalle. Sand wrote that he "died in our arms after a slow and cruel agony, which caused Chopin as much suffering as if it had been his own. He was strong, courageous and devoted... but when it was over he was shattered."[2] He was buried in Montmartre Cemetery.
References
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- Sources
- Attwood, William G. (1999). The Parisian Worlds of Frédéric Chopin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300077734.
- Sikorski, Andrzej (n.d.), Jan Matuszyński (in Polish), website of Fryderyk Chopin Institute, accessed 14 February 2014.