Limbacher Rezső

* Bratislava, February 23, 1872 – † Bratislava, July 19, 1947 / physician, rose breeder, photographer ; ; His father, Sámuel Limbacher, was a master blacksmith of German nationality, but he had already completed Hungarian schools in his hometown and obtained a medical degree from the University of Budapest in 1898. He probably began his medical practice in Bratislava, working as an assistant teacher at the Hungarian royal “midwifery school” in the early 1900s. He published his first article in the Hungarian Midwifery Calendar in 1905 about his boss at work, obstetrician Dr. Dezső Velits. In 1907, he also gained great recognition in professional circles at the XXXIV Congress of Hungarian Doctors and Naturalists. At the Bratislava traveling meeting, he gave a lecture entitled “On the premature detachment of the placenta adhering to the normal place”, which dealt with a question that had hardly been discussed until then, largely based on Limbacher’s own observations. He was the one who repeatedly gained authority for the use of high forceps in childbirth, which was considered conservative at that time. He was often called upon for complicated cases, and the birth when he managed to extract the baby from the already dead mother by cesarean section remains memorable. In 1910, he left midwifery school and opened a private practice. As an obstetrician, he came into contact with Prince László Strattmann Batthyány in April 1916, who was also a doctor and ran a hospital in Köpcsény. During World War I, he examined the suitability of conscripted recruits and soldiers. After the change of regime in 1918, he continued to work as an obstetrician and his further studies were published in professional journals (e.g. Therapia c. journal). He also worked hard to ensure that doctors of German and Hungarian nationality could also join the professional organizations that were established by Czech doctors in the 1880s and that after 1918 their authority was extended to Slovakia, but to the exclusion of non-Slovak doctors. He was the one who fought in 1922–1924 for the re-launch of the long-standing Bratislava Medical and Natural Sciences Society, of which he was the president until its dissolution in 1945. In 1922, together with two Bratislava doctors, Béla Sági and Gyula Pless, he re-launched the monthly magazine Therapia, which was published as a weekly from 1927 and was edited by Rezső Limbacher from 1933. In addition to his medical and organizational work, he was also involved in urban beautification and rose planting He was so captivated by the rosary of Countess Mária Chotek in Alsókorompa that he decided to create a rose garden in his hometown. It was opened on June 13, 1937 in Ligetfalu, which is now part of Bratislava, but was largely destroyed during World War II. We can only form an idea of its original beauty based on the photographs taken by Rezső Limbacher. These photos were published as illustrations for his series published in the fruit and horticultural magazine Növényvilág, published in Bratislava in the years between the two world wars. Limbacher had been photographing and even filming regularly since the 1900s, and he was the founding president of the Bratislava Photographers' Club. According to the recollections of one of his grandchildren, Dr. Ferenc Garzuly, a doctor from Szombathely, he often showed the black-and-white films he had made of his grandchildren, the rosary in Ligetfalu or the It was shot in the winter of Bratislava in 1942. He also worked with color techniques, but he tried to preserve these recordings. As a board member of the Uránia Scientific Association of Hungarian and German Freemasonry in Bratislava, he regularly gave educational lectures on various topics. After his death, in 1948, his volume The Rose and Its World (Ruža a jej svet) was published in Slovak. His son, Rezső Peéry (1910–1977), was a prominent publicist and critic.