Leopold Senfelder

Leopold Senfelder (born September 25, 1864 in Vienna ; † March 30, 1935 there ) was an Austrian doctor and medical historian.

life and work

Senfelder studied medicine at the University of Vienna from 1883 and received his doctorate there in 1889. med. He then received his clinical training at the Rudolfstiftung Hospital in Vienna and, after completing his military service, was a general practitioner in Vienna. During the First World War he volunteered as an X-ray doctor at the hospital of the Barmherzige Brüder in Vienna, where he mainly dealt with X-rays of gunshot wounds. He was also chief physician of the agricultural health insurance and chairman of the Reich Association of Christian Doctors.

He also published on medical history, especially the public health service in Vienna. Senfelder completed his habilitation in the history of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1908 and lectured on it at the university. He was also the librarian of the medical doctoral college in Vienna. He was considered a very good connoisseur not only of the history of medicine in Vienna, but also of the history of art and local history of Vienna in general and dealt with cemetery studies.

Senfelder gave the volumes 4 to 6 of the Acta fac. Med. univ. Vindobonensis, i.e. the historical files of the medical faculty of the University of Vienna.

Fonts (selection)

• The Hippocratic Doctrine of Excretions and Deposits , Wiener Medical Wochenschrift, 1896, p. 925
• Public health care and medicine , in: Albert Starzer (Ed.), History of the City of Vienna, Volume II.2: From the time of the rulers from the Habsburg dynasty to the end of the Middle Ages. Second half, Vienna, Verlag Adolf Holzhausen, 1905.
• Public health care and medicine , in: Anton Mayer (Hrsg.), Geschichte der Stadt Wien, Volume VI: From the exit of the Middle Ages to the accession of Empress Maria Theresia, 1740. Third half, Verlag des Altertumsverein zu Wien 1918
• From old Vienna's bygone days , in: Die Kultur, 1905, issue 2
• The imperial churchyard in front of the Schottenthor , in: Reports and communications of the Altertums-Verein zu Wien, Volume 36/37, 1902, pp. 215, 305
• The kk women's penal institution in Wiener Neudorf 1853–1903, Vienna 1903
• The old Viennese public hospital pharmacy. A contribution to the history of Viennese pharmacists , in: Das Österreichische Sanitätwesen Nr. 6/7, 1901

literature

• D. Angetter:  Leopold Senfelder. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 172 f. (Direct links on p. 172 , p. 173 ). ( Click here for the online version )

Web links

• Leopold Senfelder in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna