Jacob Fischer

* Dunaföldvár, 1861 – † Budapest, December 17, 1920 / chief physician of the Bratislava hospital, psychiatrist ; ; He spent his childhood in Makó, where his father was the city's rabbi. He graduated from high school in Szeged, studied medicine at the universities of Budapest and Vienna, and obtained his medical degree there in 1885. From 1885 to 1889, he worked as a physician at the first national psychiatric institution, the National Asylum in Lipótmeze, Budapest. From 1889 to 1891, he expanded his knowledge at the Budapest Surgical Clinic. In 1891, he was appointed the first chief physician of the psychiatric department of the Bratislava State Hospital. He held this position until 1919, and then, following the Czech occupation of Bratislava, he moved with his family to Budapest, where he died a year later. During his years in Bratislava, he became known not only as an excellent doctor, but also as a public figure. He actively participated in the work of the Bratislava Medical and Natural Sciences Association, and was the organization's secretary between 1892 and 1911. He not only edited the association's yearbooks, but also published several studies in them himself. He often gave educational lectures on the harmful effects of alcohol, and even became a member of the international organization called the Good Templars, but he failed to recruit others. In 1910, together with the Bratislava doctor Lajos Kovács, he established an alcohol withdrawal sanatorium on Széplak Street, where theatrical performances were sometimes organized. Many of his studies were published in the journal Gyógyászást and in the proceedings of the General Assembly of Hungarian Doctors and Naturalists. He translated Richard Krafft-Ebing's popular sexual pathology work (Psychopathia sexualis – with special reference to perverse sexual feelings, 1894) into Hungarian. His elder son, Antal Fischer, became an internationally renowned physician. ; ; His main works: ; The occurrence of mental disorder after the commission of a crime, 1889, ; Mental illness in Hungary, 1891, ; Neurasthenia, 1892, ; Mental disorders in children, 1894, ; Latest statistical data on the population of the city of Bratislava, 1894, ; Physical diseases in the mentally ill, 1899, ; On the dangers of alcohol and protection against them, 1905, ; History of the Bratislava Medical and Natural Science Association 1856–1906, 1907.