Lajos Markusovszky

Lajos Markusovszky (1815 to 1893) was a Hungarian surgeon who made his mark on medicine less at the operating table than through the written word. In 1857 he founded and published Orvosi Hetilap, a Hungarian medical journal, and he later became its editor, giving physicians in Hungary a regular place to share clinical knowledge. After 1867 he served as an adviser to the Ministry for Religion and Education on matters concerning the universities, so his influence reached into how medical teaching was organized. He is also remembered as a friend of Ignaz Semmelweis; he is generally agreed to have been the best friend of the physician who championed hand washing. The source is a short biographical entry, so it gives no detail of his surgical practice or his own publications.