Wenzel Trnka

Wenzel Trnka von Krzowitz (; (16 October 1739 – 12 May 1791)) was an Austrian-Czech medical doctor, professor, and amateur composer. He is thought to have composed the canons Bei der Hitz im Sommer eß ich (English: In the heat of summer I eat) and Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber (English: Lick my arse right well and clean), which were previously attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Life He was born 16 October 1739 in Tábor in Bohemia. In 1769, during his medical studies, the famous medical doctor Gerard van Swieten named him to serve as his assistant in the military hospital (Militärkrankenhaus). He received his doctorate 19 February 1770 with a treatise entitled “De morbo coxario”; (“On disease of the hip”). In June of the same year he was appointed to a professorial chair in anatomy at the University of Nagyszombat. Trnka thus became one of five who first formed the medical faculty there. He switched academic chairs twice, becoming the professor of general pathology in 1781 and of special pathology in 1786. He died in Pest on 12 May 1791. The Mozart misattribution Trnka emerged into public view in 1988 when it was revealed by Wolfgang Plath that he was the composer o