Markus Hajek

Max Schneider : Markus Hajek (1921)

Markus Hajek (born November 25, 1861 in Werschetz , Austrian Empire ; died April 4, 1941 in London ) was an Austrian physician.

Life

Markusz Hajek was born in the Banat , which from 1867 belonged to the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary . He came from a Jewish family. He attended high school in Temesvár and studied medicine at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1885. He received his training at the Rudolfstiftung Hospital and at the General Polyclinic with Johann Schnitzler . Hajek married Gisela Schnitzler (1867–1953) in 1889, the daughter of his academic teacher and sister of Arthur Schnitzler . The ascension-conscious, also from Judaism, Johann Schnitzler saw the marriage of his daughter with a Hungarian " Eastern Jew " as a mesalliance .

Hajek completed his habilitation in laryngology in 1897 and became a private lecturer. In 1899 he published the pathology and therapy of inflammatory diseases of the sinuses and the nose . Hajek thus laid the foundation for the development of endonasal surgery. From 1900 to 1918 he was head of department at the Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Ambulatorium in Vienna. In 1912 he became an associate. Professor appointed, full professor in 1919. As the successor to Ottokar von Chiari, he headed the Laryngo-Rhinological University Clinic in the General Hospital (AKH) until his retirement in 1933 .

In 1923 Sigmund Freud had Hajek's surgery for his recently discovered palatal cancer; the operation was almost fatal.

Hajek was made an honorary citizen of the city of Vienna in early 1932 . He received a commemorative publication in 1921 and 1931 . After Austria was annexed in 1938, Hajek and his wife emigrated to Great Britain .

Fonts (selection)

• About the aetiolog. Relation of the erysipelas to the phlegmon . 1887
• Tuberculosis of the nasal mucosa . 1889
• Laryngo-rhinolog. Notifications . 1892
• Suppuration and ulceration in the nose . 1896
• A contribution to recurrence of nasal polyps . 1903
• About surgical methods for frontal sinus infections . 1907
• Less common larynx tumors . 1916
• The Development of the Laryngo-Rhinol. and teaching in this subject at the University of Vienna . 1919
• The tonsillectomy . 1924
• Syphilis of the upper respiratory tract . 1926
• The changes in teaching in laryngo rhinology at the University of Vienna . 1927

literature

• Hajek, Markus , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 450f.
• Hajek_Markusz_1861_1941. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 155.
• Isidor Fischer (ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years . Volume 1: Aaser-Komoto. Munich: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962

Web links

• Literature by and about Markus Hajek in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Markus Hajek in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Markus Hajek in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• PR Seitz: Markus Hajek, his students and friends (1907–1941) , in: Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery . 116 (3), 1997, pp. 279-284 ISSN 1097-6817
• H. Diamant: Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud and Markus Hajek. A connection in life and death . In: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift , 110 (15), 1998, pp. 542-545 ISSN 1863-3765

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Nikolaj Beier: "Above all, I am I ..." Judaism, acculturation and anti-Semitism in Arthur Schnitzler's life and work . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0255-6 , p. 275
2. ↑ Literature by and about Gisela Hajek in the catalog of the German National Library
3. ^ Peter Gay: Freud. New edition by S. Fischer 2006, ISBN 3-596-17170-9 , p. 472