Andreas Ignaz Wawruch

Andreas Ignaz Wawruch (25 November 1772 – 20 March 1842) was an Austrian medical doctor and university professor. He was particularly noted for his association with, and medical attendance on, Ludwig van Beethoven.

Early life Andreas Ignaz Wawruch was born on 25 November 1772 in Němčice, Moravia. He was the son of Ignaz Wawruch, a peasant farmer, and Anna Wawruch, (b. Kazyk). He was given violin and singing lessons by his uncle, Kaspar Wawruch, (a theologian and local schoolteacher) and in 1786 was admitted to the Archbishop's Chapel at Kroměříž as a boy soprano.

He married Josepha Hildenbrand (who was the daughter of his teacher, Professor Valentin von Hildenbrand (1763-1818)) on 22 October 1815 in Vienna. (Alservorstadt Parish, Marriage Register Vol.) 1809-17, folio 216: Josepha von Hildenbrand was born in 1791 in Western Volhynia (part of modern Ukraine), where her father was personal physician to Count Adam Mniszek. Wawruch attended Beethoven medically until his death in 1827. In 1832, he became co-editor of the Medical Yearbooks series of the Imperial and Royal Austrian State (Medicinische Jahrbücher des k.k. österreichischen Staates). Disquisitio medica cholerae cujus mentio in sacris bibliis occurrit ( Medical investigation of cholera, which is mentioned in the Holy Bible ), Beck, Wien 1833.