Friedrich Joseph Haass, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFriedrich Joseph Haass
Russian physician
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Place of Birth: Bad Münstereifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Friedrich Joseph Haass
- Dr.
- Friedrich Joseph Haass (Russian: ????? ???????? ????, Fyodor Petrovich Gaaz; 10 August 1780 – 28 August [O.S.
- 16 August] 1853) was the "holy doctor of Moscow".
- Born in Bad Münstereifel, 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.
- He died in Moscow.
- Twenty thousand people attended his funeral at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery, which was paid for by the state as he had no more money.He has a Catholic remembrance day of the 16th of August.
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