Ludwig Teleky

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Ludwig Teleky (born July 12, 1872 in Vienna , † August 20, 1957 in New York ) was an Austrian social medicine specialist and social hygienist .

Life

Ludwig Teleky was the son of the doctor Hermann Teleky and his wife Marie, b. Koritschoner. He studied medicine at the Universities of Vienna and Strasbourg and received his doctorate in 1896. Teleky was already politically active as a member of the student association "Vienna Academic Association" during his student days. He joined the Austrian Social Democrats, where he belonged to the inner circle of Viktor Adler (1852-1918), whose family doctor he later became. He was also involved in the “Social Science Educational Association” co-founded by Karl Renner (1870–1950) in the mid-1890s at the University of Vienna. After completing his medical degree, Ludwig Teleky worked at the General Hospital and the General Polyclinic in Vienna as assistant to the surgeon Alexander Fraenkel (1857–1941). From 1905 to 1921 Teleky was a doctor for commercial diseases with the cooperative health insurance company. After his habilitation , he taught social medicine and hygiene as a private lecturer at the University of Vienna from 1909 to 1921. From 1911 he became head of the Institute for Social Medicine at the University of Vienna. Teleky made a decisive contribution to the fight against pulmonary tuberculosis in Austria. His investigations into mercury and phosphorus necrosis, the results of which preoccupied the Austrian Reichsrat, as well as his investigations into lead poisoning, for which he carried out research in the match industry in Bohemia, meant that legal protective measures could be introduced in Austria before 1914.

In 1921 he went to Düsseldorf as head of the West German Social Hygiene Academy . There he published extensively on industrial hygiene and industrial diseases. He was a member of the Reich Health Council and the Prussian State Health Council.

Teleky was banned from practicing his profession in 1933 due to his Jewish origins . He first returned to Austria and emigrated to the United States in 1938. From 1939 to 1946 he was an employee of the "Division of Industrial Hygiene" of the labor authorities of the states of Illinois and New York .

Teleky was co-editor of the Handbook of Social Hygiene and Health Care and editor of the Archive of Industrial Pathology .

Together with his wife Gisella Hoffmann-Teleky, orientated towards social movements, he made a contribution to industrial hygiene, from which, among other things, today's occupational medicine emerged .

The gynecologist and urologist Dora Brücke-Teleky (1879–1963) was his sister.

Honors

Publications

  • Lectures on social medicine. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1914.
  • ed. with Adolf Gottstein and Arthur Schlossmann : Handbook of social hygiene and health care. 6 volumes. Springer, Berlin 1925–1927.
  • The development of health care. Germany, England, USA. Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1950.
  • Commercial poisoning. Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1955.

literature

  • Wolfgang Hien : Ludwig Teleky's contribution in the fight against commercial poisoning. In: Social.History Online . Volume 12, 2013, pp. 7–47, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 464-20131010-075826-7 .
  • Hubert Kolling: Ludwig Teleky (1872–1957). In: Hubert Kolling (Ed.): Biographical lexicon on nursing history “Who was who in nursing history”. Volume 7, Nidda 2015, pp. 256-260.
  • Wilfried Witte: Teleky, Ludwig. 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. 1380.
  • Andreas Wulf: The social medicine specialist Ludwig Teleky (1872–1957) and the development of industrial hygiene for occupational medicine (= science. Volume 52). Mabuse, Frankfurt am Main, 2001, ISBN 3-933050-68-5 .
  • Andreas Wulf:  Ludwig Teleky. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-11207-5 , p. 11 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Walter Mentzel: Displaced persons 1938: Ludwig Teleky - pioneer of social medicine, industrial hygiene and occupational medicine. In: VanSwieten Blog. University Library Medical University of Vienna, March 12, 2020. Digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Walter Mentzel: Displaced persons 1938: Ludwig Teleky - pioneer of social medicine, industrial hygiene and occupational medicine. In: VanSwieten Blog. University Library Medical University of Vienna, March 12, 2020. Digitized
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Karbe: Teleky, Ludwig. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present. 3. Edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, p. 318, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
  3. ↑ Witte (2005), p. 1380.
  4. ↑ Harald Albrecht: Dora Brücke-Teleky: Tertoid tumor of the female urinary bladder. VanSwietenBlog, University Library Medical University of Vienna, December 13, 2018. Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Teleky, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian social doctor and social hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1957
Place of death new York