Erna Lesky

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Erna Lesky (born Klingenstein ; born May 22, 1911 in Hartberg , East Styria , Austria-Hungary ; † November 17, 1986 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian medical historian .

Live and act

Erna Klingenstein, daughter of the businessman Paul Klingenstein, attended the academic high school in Graz. She then studied medicine in Innsbruck in 1931, then moved to Vienna in 1932 and received her doctorate there in 1936 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna . After completing her studies, she turned to paediatrics, to which she remained connected throughout her life, but after her marriage switched to the history of medicine with Albin Lesky, Professor of Classical Philology from Innsbruck . During the National Socialist era , Erna Lesky was a member of the NSDAP .

Since 1949 she lived in Vienna, where her husband was called that year, and did her doctorate here in 1956. phil. In 1957 she qualified as a professor for the history of medicine at the Medical Faculty in Vienna . In 1960 she received the teaching assignment for this subject and began to reorganize the institute. To do this, she first had to catalog the library. The museum has been refurbished. At the same time, she wrote her main work on The Vienna Medical School in the 19th Century , which she dedicated to the university on the occasion of its 600th anniversary. In 1965 she was elected a member of the Leopoldina . She was also a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Lesky made studies on Leopold von Auenbrugger , Johann Peter Frank , Franz Joseph Gall , Carl von Rokitansky , Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis , Theodor Billroth and Clemens von Pirquet .

When her husband Albin Lesky fell ill, she stopped working in 1979 and moved to Innsbruck. In the following, however, she continued to write and published her work on the milestones of Viennese medicine .

In 1994 in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) Leskygasse was named after Erna and Albin Lesky. Since 1998, a gate on the university campus of the University of Vienna has also been named after the couple.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • The teachings of generation and inheritance of antiquity and their aftermath. Verlag der Wissenschaft und der Literatur in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden), Main 1950 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1950, volume 19).

literature

  • Felicitas Seebacher: Erna Lesky, General and Diplomat. Networking as a Power Tool for History of Medicine. In: Antonio Roca-Rosell (Ed.): The Circulation of Science and Technology. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Barcelona, ​​November 18-20, 2010. Barcelona 2012, ISBN 978-84-9965-108-8 , pp. 208-216 ( PDF ).
  • Helmut Wyklicky: In memoriam Erna Lesky. In: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift. Vol. 99 (1987), H. 1, p. 27 f.
  • Helmut Wyklicky: Lesky, Erna. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 845 f.
  • Helmut Gröger: Lesky, Erna. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 465–468.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Wyklicky: Lesky, Erna. 2005, p. 845.
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang U. Eckart : Erna Lesky born. Klingenstein. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century , 1st edition 1995 CH Beck Munich, medical dictionary. From antiquity to the present , 2nd edition 2001, 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York. Medical glossary 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
  3. ↑ Helmut Wyklicky: Lesky, Erna. 2005, p. 845.
  4. ↑ a b Vienna's street names since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 302f, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  5. ↑ Helmut Wyklicky: Lesky, Erna. 2005, p. 845 f.
  6. ↑ Member entry of Erna Lesky at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 11, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Lesky, Erna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartberg , Styria
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1986
Place of death innsbruck