Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
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