Wenceslas Trnka

* Tábor, October 16, 1739 – † Pest, May 12, 1791 / physician, university professor ; ; He completed his studies in Prague and Vienna. He obtained his medical degree in Vienna in 1770. In 1769, van Swieten appointed him assistant physician at the Vienna military hospital. In 1770, he became a professor of anatomy and dissection at the University of Nagyszombat. He complained to Swieten several times that, without human cadavers, it was impossible to truly research or teach the structure of the human body. ; Despite the instructions of the Queen's advisor, the counties were reluctant to transport the bodies of executed criminals to Nagyszombat for autopsy. He also urged the acquisition of modern instruments in vain. In 1785–1786 he was professor of general pathology and pharmacology, and from 1786 to 1791 of internal medicine at the university in Buda, and in 1786–1787 he was rector of the university. He was a polymath, interested in many things. He spoke eight languages (including Hungarian). Compared to the conditions at the time, he managed to create his own specialized library, which consisted of about 3,000 volumes, which was auctioned off in 1790. His teaching activities are considered to be primarily significant. ; ; His main works: ; Historia febrium, 1775, ; Commentarius de tetano, 1777, ; De diabete commentarius, 1778, ; Historia cophoseos et barycoiae, 1781, ; Historia amauroseos... I–II., 1781(German: 1790), ; Historia ophithalmiae..., 1783, ; Historia febris..., 1783 (German: 1784), ; De prolapsu ani, 1785, ; Historia rachitidis..., 1787 ; (German: 1789), Historia tympanitidis..., 1788, ; Abhandlung über das Magenweh, 1788, ; Geschichte der englischen Krankheit, 1789, ; Historia haemorrhoidum... I–III., 1794–1795.