Alexander Marmorek

Alexander Marmorek

Alexander Marmorek ( Alex Marmorek ; born February 19, 1865 in Mielnice , Galicia , Austrian Empire ; died July 14, 1923 in Paris ) was an Austro-French bacteriologist and Zionist .

Life

Marmorek studied medicine at the University of Vienna , he became a member of the Jewish student union Kadimah . Of Louis Pasteur , he was to participate in the Paris Institute invited. Marmorek was Chef de Travaux there . He worked particularly on the fight against tuberculosis and discovered the streptococcal serum used to treat scarlet fever .

Marmorek was a member of the Great (Zionist) Action Committee for many years; he belonged with his brothers Oskar Marmorek and Schiller Marmorek to the close circle of friends of Theodor Herzl . In his novel Altneuland , Herzl portrayed him in the figure of the doctor Professor Dr. Steineck . During the First World War Marmorek had to leave France and was employed as a military doctor in the Austro-Hungarian Army on the Eastern Front.

Kfar Marmorek, a Jewish settlement of the Moschav Ovdim type founded in Palestine in 1931 , today a district of Rehovot in Israel , is named after Alexander Marmorek.

Sources / literature

• Adolf Gaisbauer:  Marmorek, Alexander. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 230-232 ( digitized version ).
• Jew. Lex. , Berlin 1927, Vol. III, Col. 1385
• John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 468.
• M. Jantsch - Ed .:  Marmorek Alexander. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 104.
• Marmorek, Alexander. In: Encyclopedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 11, Sp. 1012-1013