Josef von Fodor

Josef's father was Galántai Fodor Antal [Hu] and his mother was Mary Picha. He had a daughter, Margit Fodor who married Zsigmond Gerlóczy.

He studied medicine at Buda-Pesth, Vienna, and Munich and was awarded Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Buda-Pesth on 19 October 1865.[1] He completed a degree as a master of ophthalmology and obstetrics, and on 17 July 1866 he completed a degree in surgery.

Around 1870, von Fodor took a Wanderjahr with the support of a state grant to visit the largest cities of Europe (Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, England) to study their hygiene practices.[1][2]

Professor von Fodor died on 19 Mar 1901 from sequelae of influenza supervening on arterial sclerosis[3] He is buried at Rijeka Road Graveyard.

• 1866 - Assistant to the Chair of State Medicine at Buda-Pesth
• c. 1866 - Inspector of Deaths in Buda-Pesth
• 1869 - Prosector/dissecting doctor of the Hospital of St. Roch. (Saint Rokus)
• 1869 - qualified as Privat-docent
• 1870 - Studied at the University of Munich under Max Josef von Pettenkofer and Justus von Liebig
• c. 1870 - Worked at Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen and Albert Hilger’s institute at the University of Würzburg[2]
• 1872 - appointed Ordinary Professor of State Medicine at University of Klausenburg (or University of Kolozsvár)
• 1874 - appointed Chair of Hygiene at the University of Buda-Pesth
• c. 1890 - elected Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
• 1894 - elected Rector of the university

As the Chair of Hygiene, Professor von Fodor influenced sanitation reform throughout Hungary.[1]

In 1885, Professor von Fodor played a key role in founding the Institution of School of Medical Officers, and established the Hungarian National Health Association with Lajos Markusovszky.[1]

He served as editor of the Bulletin of the Society of Public Health "Health" from 1887, and edited a section of the Hungarian Medical Journal called Public Health and Forensic Medicine. Professor von Fodor was regarded as a pioneer of modern public health.[2]

Statue of Josef von Fodor

• 1874 - Great Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences[2]
• 1883 - Hygienic Exhibition (Berlin), awarded Empress-Queen Augusta gold medal for preventative medicine
• 1891 - International Congress of Hygiene (London), awarded honorary degree of LL.D. from University of Cambridge[7]
• Honorary member of the German Public Health Association (Verein fur Offentliche Gesundheitspflege)[2]
• Member of public health associations of Paris, Brussels, Florence and London[2]
• prizes from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Royal Medical Association of Buda-Pesth
• appointed to the Presidents of the Superior Health Council of Hungary
• Honorary member of the Association of Medical Officers of Great Britain[2]
• nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Andreas Hoegyes and by Anton von Genersich[8]
• 1909 - on 29 August 1909 the National Public Health Association erected a bronze bust ( the work of György Vastagh Jr. ) in the capital, in the VIII. district Gutenberg Square, with the inscription “First Apostle of Our Public Health” engraved on the sculpture foundation. In Kaposvár, a full-length bronze statue, in its native village, Lakócsa, Somogy county, also a bust and a memorial plaque mark the memory of the famous native of the village.

• 1869 - About outside toilet systems with regard to domestic conditions, especially of Pest, 1869
• 1873 - Sanitary Administration in England / Public health in England with regard to the situation of medicine, health regulations, forensic medicine and the conditions in Hungary.[1]
• 1875 - on soil and soil gases
• 1877 - Healthy houses and dwellings
• 1878 - Das gesunde Haus und die gesunde Wohnung. Braunschweig,
• 1878 - Official report on the universal exhibition held in Paris in 1878 III
• 1879 - The Public Health. Bp
• 1880 - Das Kohlenoxyd vom hygienischen Standpunkt. Pest. med. chir. Presse, Budapest, 1880, xvi, 42[9]
• 1881 - Hygienische Untersuchungen über Luft, Boden und Wasser : insbesondere auf ihre Beziehungen zu den epidemischen Krankheiten. Erste Abtheilung: Die Luft [Hygienic Researches on Air, Soil, and Water volume 1: Air] (in German). Braunschweig: Freidrich Vieweg und Sohn. 1882.
• 1882 - Hygienische Untersuchungen über Luft, Boden und Wasser : insbesondere auf ihre Beziehungen zu den epidemischen Krankheiten. Zweite Abtheilung: Boden und Wasser [Hygienic Researches on Air, Soil, and Water volume 2: Earth and Water] (in German). Braunschweig: Freidrich Vieweg und Sohn. 1882.
• 1885 - the conditions of longevity
• 1886 - Bacterien im blute lebender thiere. [Bacteria in the blood of living animals] Archiv für Hygiene, 4:129-148
• 1887 - Fodor, Josef (1887). "Die Fähigkeit des Blutes Bacterien zu vernichten" [The ability of the blood to destroy bacteria]. Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift (in German). 13 (34): 745–747. doi:10.1055/s-0029-1197913. S2CID 260126483.
• 1887 - textbook for hygiene schools (2nd ed. 1892)
• 1890 - the bactericidal action of the blood and immunization
• 1891 - immunization by alkalinization