Paul Kolbány

* Ozdin, 23 January 1758 – † Bratislava, 16 April 1816 / physician, botanist ; ; He began his schooling in Osgyán, then continued his studies in Levski and Bratislava. In Bratislava, he began botanizing at the urging of István Lumnitzer. He studied medicine at the University of Halle from 1782 and at the University of Vienna from 1786, obtaining his degree in 1787. He settled in Bratislava as a practicing physician and remained there until his death. He pioneered the introduction of smallpox vaccination, and for this purpose he traveled throughout Hungary and Transylvania. He was one of the first to successfully apply water therapy. He investigated the possibility of protection against malaria and typhus. As a naturalist, he was particularly interested in poisons and poisonous plants and their effects on the human body. He was elected a member of several foreign scientific societies (the Erlangen Medical and Naturalistic Society and the Halle Naturalistic Society). ; ; His main works: ; Hungarian Poisonous Plants…, 1791, History of Poisons of Animals, Plants and the Medical Use of Poisons, 1798, ; Observations on the Benefits of Warm and Cold Water in Scarlet Fever, 1808.