The Schneidhaus (cutting house) of the Fugger in Augsburg.A surgical hospital in the Early Modern

奥格斯堡富格的施耐德豪斯（切割屋）是这个项目的中心。施耐德豪斯是一家专门从事外科手术的医院，始建于16世纪，由捐赠建立，已经存在了几个世纪。直到今天，科学研究普遍忽视了这所医院，包括这种特殊类型的医院。我们的研究旨在挑战一种普遍的信念，即从医院作为慈善机构到医疗场所的转变发生在19世纪，或者最早发生在18世纪。我们想表明，慈善和医疗远非相互排斥，甚至可以促进相互支持的目标。这项调查的主要来源是富格尔档案馆的账簿和信件，以及施耐德豪斯的一份插图手稿，其中列出了患者名单，并展示了取出的膀胱结石的彩色图像。这些资料有助于分析神圣罗马帝国背景下视觉表现和慈善基金会的功能。丰富的原始材料为施耐德豪斯的患者及其传记背景提供了多方面的见解；它将允许分析和描述外科医生和医生的治疗程序和他们的冲突；此外，拥有特定利益的创始人家族将变得有形。这将通过一个多视角的研究项目来实现，该项目结合了医学、文化和当地历史，并关注参与者，特别是捐助者、患者和外科医生。调查的时间范围从1560年施奈德豪斯的建立到17世纪末插图手稿的最后条目。对18世纪早期关于医院连续性的冲突的分析使本研究圆满结束。研究结果和研究过程本身不仅要向科学同行发表，而且要通过展览的方式向更广泛的公众发表。

The Schneidhaus (cutting house) of the Fugger in Augsburg is at the centre of this project. The Schneidhaus, a hospital specialised in surgery, was founded by a donation in the 16th century and existed several centuries. To this day scientific research has widely ignored this hospital including this specific type of hospital. Our studies aim at challenging a common belief that the change from hospitals as charitable institutions to places of medical therapy occurred in the 19th or, at the very earliest, during the 18th century. We want to show that charitability and medical therapy were far from being mutually exclusive but could even foster mutually supportive objectives. The main sources for this investigation are the account books and letters in the Fugger Archive as well as an illustrated manuscript from the Schneidhaus, which lists patients and shows coloured images of the extracted bladder stones. These sources facilitate an approach which analyses the functions of visual representation and charitable foundation in the context of the Holy Roman Empire.The rich source material provides manifold insights in the patients of the Schneidhaus with their biographic backgrounds; it will allow analysing and describing the surgeons and physicians with their therapeutic procedures and their conflicts; moreover, the founder families with their specific interests will become tangible. This will be realised by a multi-perspective research program which combines medical, cultural, and local history and focusses on the actors, esp. on the benefactors, the patients and the surgeons. The time range of the investigation reaches from the foundation of the Schneidhaus in 1560 to the last entries in the illustrated manuscript at the end of the 17th century. The analysis of a conflict concerning the continuity of the hospital in the early decades of the 18th century rounds the study off. The results and an the research-process itself are not only to be published for scientific peers, but also – by way of an exhibition – for a broader public.