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Bad Münstereifel
Kr. Euskirchen Nordrhein-Westfalen Marktstraße 15
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Friedrich Joseph HaassMünstereifel 1780 - Moscow 1853the 'holy doctor of Moscow.' As a member of Moscow's governmental prison committee, he spent 25 years until the end of his life to humanize the penal system (Wikipedia) |
Nikolay Andreyev
1909/1986 |
Large buste on a stone pedestal, made by Helmut Mooss, with on the front a bronze letter from Elisavetha Drachusova to Wilhelmins, sister of Dr. Haass, in Cologne. At the foot of the pedestal are chains.
The original bust was made in 1909 for the Moscow Hospital for the Poor. The bust in Bad Münstereifel is made from a plaster cast made in 1986 of the bust, and stands since 1995 on the present location.
FRIEDRICH JOSEPH HAASS |
moskau 19.viii.1853 die lauter des menschen |
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