Karl Otto Moller

* Bratislava, 10 or 16 January 1670 – † Bány-Békés, 9 April 1747 / doctor, specialist writer ; ; Although he was born in Bratislava, he spent most of his life in Bány-Békés, which is why we have included him among the prominent personalities of Bány-Békés. He completed his elementary and secondary school studies in his hometown, and his medical studies in Altdorf, where he obtained a diploma in 1696. Upon returning to his homeland, he was a city “physicist” first in Bratislava, and then from 1703 until his death in Bány-Békés. As a follower of Rákóczi, he also served as a camp doctor, and after the fall of the War of Independence he worked as a doctor for prominent families, prepared talented young people for medical studies in his private school and systematically visited the spas of Upper Hungary, whose waters he analyzed and helped the patients with his useful advice. He was already called the “Hungarian Hippocrates” during his lifetime. He was also a friend and colleague of Mátyás Bél, whose county monographs Prodromus and Notitia… he wrote or compiled several important chapters. He published numerous articles in the professional journals of the time. ; His main work was published in German in 1710, and following a German-language edition published in 1739, it was also published in Hungarian in Buda in 1740 in the translation of his son-in-law, János Dániel Perliczi: Consilium medicum: That is: Medical education, how a person should take care of himself in the current outbreak of plague and other poisonous ailments, with the help of God, and by what means each person can be cured in their ecstasy. It was written before that in 1710, adapted to the present day, and according to the edition printed in German in Posony in 1739, it was translated into Hungarian, compiled in better order by Dániel Perlici, in 1740. His son, Moller Gottfried (1710–1770. October 14.), a doctor of medicine, was also the chief physician of Zólyom County, and was born in Banská Bystrica and died here.