Joseph Derer

* Malacka, 27 February 1887 – † Bratislava, 21 May 1967 / ophthalmologist, university ; lecturer ; ; A scion of the famous Dérer family. His father, József Dérer Sr., was a lawyer and jurist. His older brother, Iván Dérer (1884–1973), was an active member of the Slovak national movement and a minister in several Czechoslovak governments after 1918. His younger brother, László (Ladislav) Dérer (1897–1960), who studied medicine in Prague and Bratislava and received his doctorate in Bratislava in 1924, was one of the first Slovak professors at the Faculty of Medicine of the Comenius University in Bratislava. The university hospital (Nemocnica akademika Ladislava Dérera) in the Kramáre quarter of Bratislava bears his name. József Dérer studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Budapest and obtained his doctoral degree in 1909. From 1909 to 1914, he was an ophthalmologist at the National Hospital in Bratislava, and from the autumn of 1918, he was an assistant professor at the Eye Clinic of the Elisabeth University in Bratislava. After the change of empire in 1918, he practiced as an ophthalmologist in Košice, Žilina, and then again in Bratislava, and was the head of the Eye Clinic of the District National Health Institute in Bratislava.