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Med. Dr. Ignác Hirschler (Hirshler)

Also Known As: "Ignatz"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Stampfen, Stomfa, Stupava, Malacky District, Bratislava Region, Slovakia
Death: November 11, 1891 (68)
Budapest, Magyarország (Hungary)
Place of Burial: Budapest, Hungary
Immediate Family:

Son of Markus Marcus Löb Hirschler and Rosalie Hirschler
Ex-husband of Betty Hirschler
Father of Therese Pollák (Kremsir)
Brother of Anna "Nanette" Stein (Hirschler); Wilhelmine Schlesinger (Hirschler); Samuel Hirschler; Hermann Hirschler; Friedrich Frigyes Hirschler and 4 others

Occupation: Physician, Pioneer in Eye Surgery
Managed by: Private User
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About Med. Dr. Ignác Hirschler

death: JewishGen LDS 642983, Vol. 52, obit

Member of the Hungarian House of Barons, Member in Correspondence with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ordinary Member of the Hungarian Health Committee, Cavalier of III Class of the Iron Crown.

"Hungarian oculist, he studied medicine at Vienna. After practising for two years at Paris he went to Budapest, where he achieved a reputation as an oculist. He wrote several works on the influence of alcohol and nicotine on the vision, on clinical treatment of the eyes, and on the pigments of the retina. He was a corresponding member of the Royal Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and was made a life-member of the Hungarian House of Magnates by Francis Joseph I. in recognition of his services to Hungarian Judaism. From 1860 until his death he was the intellectual leader of Jewish affairs in Hungary, being for some years president of the Jewish community of Pest. A personal friend of Baron Joseph Eötvös, he became his closest adviser when, as minister of public instruction and worship, Eötvös convened the Jewish congress at Budapest (1868) for regulating the Jewish communal institutions, of which congress Hirschler was elected president. His intelligence and zeal gave a remarkable impetus to the intellectual development of the Hungarian Jews, but the bitter conflicts which divided Judaism finally induced him to retire."

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Med. Dr. Ignác Hirschler's Timeline

1823
March 3, 1823
Stampfen, Stomfa, Stupava, Malacky District, Bratislava Region, Slovakia
1857
September 23, 1857
Pressburg, Pozsony, Bratislavský kraj, Slovakia
1891
November 11, 1891
Age 68
Budapest, Magyarország (Hungary)
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Budapest, Hungary