Gyula Elischer

* Prešov, 15 October 1846 – † Budapest, 28 September 1909 / gynecologist, art collector ; ; The Elischer family settled in the Szépesség in the 13th century. They were originally called Oelloescher, which means oil extinguisher – they were experts in the production of the oil mixture used in miners' lamps. His father, Károly Elischer, was the captain of the Košice militia during the 1848/49 War of Independence and was later sentenced to a long prison term for this. His mother, Antónia Nemes Kéler, was the sister of the composer Béla Kéler. After his secondary school studies in Prešov, he obtained his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1871. He became an assistant professor at the Department of Histopathology at the University of Budapest, obtained a private teaching qualification in 1877, and became a university professor in 1895. From 1884 he was the chief gynecologist of the hospital. In his youth he also dealt with shorthand and formed the first rural shorthand circle in Hungary. ; He was considered a famous art collector. His collection of Rembrandt and Dürer engravings was purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. He was also the initiator of the erection of the Semmelweis statue in Budapest. He left his significant Goethe collection to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His famous work: On the Burning of the Dead, 1874. His son, Gyula Elischer Jr. (Budapest, February 28, 1875 – Budapest, December 16, 1929) was a radiologist and university professor who became the leading figure of Hungarian radiology after the death of Béla Alexander in 1916. During World War I, he was a military doctor leading an X-ray laboratory in Rózsahegy and then in Nyitra. After World War I, he became a professor of radiology and head of the medical faculty of the University of Debrecen, founded in 1914. He achieved three internationally significant results in the field of X-ray examination of the heart, kidneys and gastric mucosa. His early death was caused by cancer caused by X-ray radiation.