Gustav Scheuthauer

* Tőketerebes, March 11, 1832 – † Budapest, January 28, 1894 / pathologist, university professor ; ; He graduated from high school in Košice, then became a Benedictine priest, but left a year later and became a medical student in Vienna, where he was ordained a doctor of medicine in 1861, but from 1860 he was Karl Rokitansky's assistant professor. In 1870 he was a private teacher in Vienna. He worked as a hospital dissector in Brünn, but with the encouragement of influential acquaintances at home, he soon submitted a request to the Minister of Religion and Public Education, József Eötvös, offering his services in the field of teaching pathology. In his departmental application, he competed with Antal Genersich (Nagyszombat). The faculty and the university council clearly supported Genersich, but on August 3, 1870, Eötvös appointed Scheuthauer as a public extraordinary professor of histopathology at the University of Pest, who also brought his collection of Viennese specimens with him to his department. In 1871, he was a dissector at the Rókus Hospital. After the retirement of Lajos Arányi (Komárom), he was a deputy professor of pathology in 1873, and a public full professor in 1874–1894 at the University of Budapest. Director of the Institute of Pathology. He conducted research on the brain's fiber, nerve tumors, deformities, and intestinal worms. He was one of the defense experts in the Tiszaeszlár trial, based on whose opinion the charges were dropped. He was considered one of the last polymaths of his time. In 1881, he wrote an in-depth art historical study of the Germanicus statue kept in the Louvre in Paris, and he also formulated the faculty's greetings in elegant Latin, which were written to Rudolf Virchow on the occasion of his 70th birthday. He also engaged in research into the history of medicine. His death was caused by a heart attack. ; ; His main works: ; Theoretical pathology, 1878, ; Der Germanicus des Lonore ein Archimedes, 1881.