Franz Schubert

:Schubert redirects here. For other uses, see Schubert (disambiguation).

Death

In the midst of this creative activity, his health deteriorated. He had battled syphilis since 1822. The final illness may have been typhoid fever, though other causes have been proposed; some of his final symptoms match those of mercury poisoning (mercury was a common treatment for syphilis in the early 19th century); at any rate, insufficient evidence remains to make a definitive diagnosis. He died aged 31 on November 19, 1828 at the apartment of his brother Ferdinand in Vienna. By his own request, he was buried next to Ludwig van Beethoven, whom he had adored all his life, on the Währinger cemetery. In 1888, both Schubert and Beethoven's graves were moved to the Zentralfriedhof where they can now be found next to those of Johann Strauss I and Johannes Brahms.

Related Topics:
Syphilis - Typhoid fever - Mercury - Ludwig van Beethoven - Zentralfriedhof - Johann Strauss I - Johannes Brahms

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In 1872, a memorial to Franz Schubert was erected in Vienna's Stadtpark.

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