Jan Matuszyński

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Jan Edward Aleksander Matuszyński (Warsaw, 14 December 1808 – 20 April 1842, Paris) was a Polish physician and close friend, in Warsaw and Paris, of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin.

Life

Miniature of Jan Matuszyński, ca. 1840

Jan Matuszyński's father, Jan Fryderyk Matuszyński (1768–1831), was a physician and surgeon and head of Warsaw's Lutheran Hospital.[1]

Jan Matuszyński, a native of Warsaw, befriended Chopin whilst attending the

tenor and director.[1]

From 1827 Jan studied medicine at the University of Warsaw. During the November 1830–31 Uprising he served as a medic with the Polish forces, in the 5th Mounted Rifles, and won the order of Virtuti Militari.[1]

Following the suppression of the Uprising he went into exile in Germany, eventually graduating in medicine at the University of Tübingen.[1]

Emigrating to Paris in 1834, he for more than two years[2][3] shared Chopin's apartment in the Chaussée d'Antin and gave him medical advice.[1]

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).[4]

Matuszyński died of

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 [Chopin] was strong, courageous and devoted... but when it was over he was shattered."[4]

Matuszyński was buried in the Cemetery of Montmartre.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Sikorski (n.d.)
  2. ISBN 978-0374159061
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  3. ISBN 978-83-235-0481-8
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  4. ^ a b Atwood (1999), p. 333.

References

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