John Wagner

* Komárom, 18 July 1811 – † Budapest, 2 January 1889 / physician, internist, university professor ; ; He obtained his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1835. In the same year, he became a practicing physician in Pest and served as secretary of the Medical Association, and then as president between 1846 and 1862. From 1848 to 1887, he taught at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Pest. He was one of the founders of the Hungarian clinical approach and one of the leaders of the Pest medical school. ; ; His main works: ; On the chronic left liver lobe, as the most common cause of difficult digestion, 1841, ; On the small famine, 1841, ; Chemischepharmaceutische Abhandlung über das Magnesium und Quecksilberycanat, 1843, Andeutung zu einer exacteren Actiologie, 1851, ; On the bronchial lobe, 1862.