Dr. med. Leopold Fischl
- Prague, 10.05.1870
- Prague, 28.05.1934
- Member since 1925
- Specialist for gastrointestinal and metabolic diseases
Leopold Fischl was born in Prague as the second youngest of 11 children of David and Katharina Fischl. He studied medicine at the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague from the winter semester of 1888/89. He graduated on January 18, 1895.
Education and place of work
There are few sources about his further education and activities. Two publications from 1907 and 1910 bear witness to his scientific activities. At the time of his publication in 1907, he was already a “specialist in gastric diseases in Prague”. In 1910, in addition to his practice, he probably worked at the Institute of Histology at the German University in Prague (director: Prof. Dr. Sigmund Mayer, an eminent anatomist and physiologist who had held the chair of histology at the University of Prague since 1887).
On June 9, 1908, Fischl married Anna Matechova, who was born in Prague in 1868.
In the Czech register of the Prague Regional Council (period 1901 to 1910), Leopold Fischl is listed as MUDr., surgical assistant at the First Surgical Clinic of the German Medical Faculty.
Fischl published a cookbook with nutritional advice for patients with stomach and intestinal diseases, which was published posthumously in 1936.
Leopold Fischl died of heart disease on May 28, 1934 at the age of 64. He was buried on June 1, 1934 in the Zikovain Protestant Cemetery in Prague.
The members of the Fischl family lived in Prague and Berlin; his son Franz from his marriage with Anna, née Matechova, studied architecture. The available documents show that one of his brothers was of Jewish faith and another of Protestant denomination.
No documents have yet been found regarding the whereabouts of his wife and son. The wife of his brother Heinrich Fischl (died 1929), Florentine Fischl, née Popper, widowed Neugroschl, was deported to Theresienstadt on July 13, 1942 and transported to Treblinka on October 13, 1942. She was murdered there at the age of 81, in 1942. Her son from her first marriage was also deported and died in the extermination camp Maly Trostinez (near Minsk).
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the staff of the Prague City Archives for the family register and the death certificate, and to the Archives of Charles University in Prague for the document of the last medical examination.
Written by:
Dr. med. Cornelie Haag, Dresden
Dr. med. Harro Jenss, Worpswede
Translated by:
Priska Scheidt-Antich
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