History of Homœopathy
Biographies
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
ŒNIG, MAXIMILIAN JOSEPH, M. D., of Jersey Shore, Pa., was born November 1st, 1829, in Danstedt, near
Halberstadt, in the Prussian province of north Saxony. His grandfather, Heinrich August Kœnig, was Pastor and Superintendent in Muhlhausen, in
Thuringia. His father, Carl Bernhard Kœnig, died in Auderbeck, near Halberstadt, March 23d, 1846. He was pastor in that place, and, during the ten
years preceding his death, was a leading writer in favor of popular liberty, at the time of the religious and political difficulties between the
government and people. His father and party demanded religion independent of the State, and schools independent of the church.Maximilian was educated at home by a private teacher from 1838 to 1840 ; attended the Gymnasium at
Halberstadt from 1841 to 1848, and emigrated to the United States in 1849. During the first four years of his residence here, he studied medicine with
his uncle, C. G. Reinhold, then in Boalsburg, Centre county, Penna. In 1855, while in Louisville, Ky., he formed the acquaintance of Dr. E. Caspari, a
homœopathist and hydropathist, with whom he acted as assistant during three summers, attending regular lectures during the winter. In 1858, he served
as clerk in a drug store in New Orleans, and in the following year commenced homœopathic practice in Newark, N. J. During the war he was assistant army
surgeon in Cincinnati, Louisville, and other places, and in 1864 went to Memphis with the intention of practicing ; but finding the profession well
represented, as soon as he could earn the means, he returned to New York. There he received an invitation to Williamsport, Penna. He remained in charge
of the office vacated by the death of his old preceptor, until his cousin had graduated, and then settled in Jersey Shore, where he has now the second
best practice among seven physicians. He was married January 4th, 1872.Source : Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons By
Egbert Cleave