Zsigmond Schordann

Nagylévárd, July 22, 1794 – † Pest, April 11, 1862 / physiologist, university professor ; ; His father was a farm officer in Nagylévárd. He completed his secondary schooling in Bratislava between 1801 and 1811. He became a doctor of medicine at the University of Pest in 1817. From 1815 he was an assistant professor under Mihály Ignác Lenhossék (Bratislava) in the physiology department. He also spent a year in Vienna, then from 1818 he was a deputy professor of theoretical medicine and from 1820 of physiology. In 1820 he became a full professor of theoretical medicine and in 1822 of physiology. In 1858, partly out of necessity, he retired after suffering from an increasingly serious spinal disease. In his will dated February 24, 1861, he left his library and half of his fortune to the university, and thus further developed the medical school library. His teaching activities were more significant. ; ; His main works: ; Dissertatio inauguralis medica de medicina populari, 1817, ; Observations on the Hungarian cholera epidemic, 1831.