Samuel Batizfalvy

* 1826. August 26. Rimaszombat - † Budapest, November 6. 1904. / Doctor ; ; He first studied Lutheran theology, and during the War of Independence he was a lieutenant in the Hungarian army. In 1855 he obtained a medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine in Pest. In 1864 he was a private teacher, and in 1869 he opened the forty-bed "private surgical and physical therapy hospital" in Buda, which he later expanded with the first Budapest hydrotherapy hospital. He was the first Hungarian practitioner of orthopedics, and also carried out literary activities. Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1868. ; ; &nbsp, ; ; Web documents: ; Hungarian Biography Lexicon 1000-1990 (MEK) ; Károly Kapronczay: Hungarian Medical Biography Lexicon (HIK) ; József Szinnyei: The Lives and Works of Hungarian Writers (MEK); Pallas Nagy Lexikon (MEK); Sámuel Batizfalvy (Tudósportál); Sámuel Batizfalvy (Wikipedia); Katalin Kapronczay: Manuscript Memories of 19th-Century Hungarian Medical History Writing (Hungarian Medical History Society - PDF)