Marius Sturza

Marius Sturza (* 27. August 1876 in Seprös ; † 26. July 1954 in Cluj ) was a Transylvanian doctor , Balneologe and specialty physician for physical therapy and chief physician of the sanatorium in the spa Sovata .

Life

Sturza was born in Seprös near Arad and graduated from the Romanian grammar school in Kronstadt and then studied medicine in Vienna. Here he received his doctorate in medicine in 1901. He then worked in Vienna at the Nothnagel Clinic and at the Maria Theresia Women's Hospital . He then became an assistant doctor at the Priessnitz spa facilities in Graefenberg . This sanatorium was run by the Kronstadt doctor Ioan Hozan, who also came from the Arad area. Then Sturza became chief physician at the Wällischhof sanatorium near Vienna and finally at the Sovata spain Transylvania. Sturza dedicated himself to the rising branch of science of the previously empirically operated spa medicine. He qualified as a professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cluj-Napoca for balneology and physiotherapy. In 1931 he became an associate professor and head of the balneological chair in Cluj-Napoca. In this function, he held lectures once a week at the Vienna Medical Faculty. He used the plane for the trip. In 1950 his textbook of balneology appeared under the title "Manual de balneologie" (Handbook of Balneology). Sturza died in Cluj in 1954.

Publications

• Bad Sovata, Romania-Transylvania. Its origin, characteristics of its lakes, effects of its seaside baths and indications for their use , Vienna 1928.
• The salt water of Romania. Balneological-balneotherapy study , book and art print Donau, Vienna 1930.

literature

• Arnold Huttmann : Transylvania Doctors as University Professors in Austria , in: Arnold Huttmann: Medicine in old Transylvania , Hora Hermannstadt / Sibiu 2000, p. 365.

Honor

• A street in Hermannstadt / Sibiu was named after Marius Sturza .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Strada Marius Sturza in Sibiu , accessed on December 23, 2017.