Gustav Rigler

* Dunamocs, 4 November 1868 – † Budapest, 20 August 1930 / physician, hygienist, university professor ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in Komárom, and received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Budapest in 1892. He began working at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Cluj-Napoca, where he was qualified as a private teacher in 1897 and as a public full university professor in 1899. In 1906/1907 and 1914/1915, he was the dean of the Ferenc József University of Cluj-Napoca, and in 1917/1918, he was its rector. Between 1921 and 1927, he taught at the University of Szeged and headed the Institute of Public Health. From 1928 until his death, he was the director of the Institute of Public Health in Budapest and the head professor of the department of public health. During his research, he dealt with the hygiene of medicinal waters, artesian wells, food, as well as bacteriology, epidemiology, and serology. He was one of the organizers of the further training courses for medical officers. ; ; His main works: ; Methods of health examinations, 1894, ; Public health and infectious diseases I-II., 1910, ; History of the (first) cholera outbreak in 1831, 1915, ; Short textbook of public health and epidemiology, 1922.