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Ignaz Semmelweis

1818 to 1865 4 documented presences 4 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Ignaz Semmelweis across 4 places, from 1818 to 1857. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian physician and scientist of German descent who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures and was described as the "saviour of mothers".Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Ignaz Semmelweis was documented, and when

1 July 1818exact date
Tabánattested “Ignaz Semmelweis was born on 1 July 1818 in the Tabán neighbourhood of Buda, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire.” source: Wikipedia: Ignaz Semmelweis
1847year
United Statesattested “Toward the end of 1847, accounts of the work of Semmelweis (as well as the similar conclusions of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., working in the United States of America) began to spread around Europe.” source: Wikipedia: Ignaz Semmelweis
1850year
Pest, Hungaryattested “Childbed fever was rampant at the clinic; at a visit in 1850, just after returning to Pest, Semmelweis found one fresh corpse, another patient in severe agony, and four others seriously ill with the disease.” source: Wikipedia: Ignaz Semmelweis
1857year
University of Zurichattested “Semmelweis declined an offer in 1857 to become professor of obstetrics at the University of Zurich.” source: Wikipedia: Ignaz Semmelweis

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Places Ignaz Semmelweis is documented in

United States1 presence · 1847University of Zurich1 presence · 1857
Pest, Hungary1 presence · 1850
Tabán1 presence · 1818

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1837year
University of Viennamentioned “Ignaz began studying law at the University of Vienna in the autumn of 1837, but switched to medicine.” source: Wikipedia: Ignaz Semmelweis
1837year
Pest, Hungarymentioned “The same year, Semmelweis married Mária Weidenhofer (1837–1910), 19 years his junior and the daughter of a successful merchant in Pest.” source: Wikipedia: Ignaz Semmelweis
1848year
Hungarymentioned “Two days later in Hungary, demonstrations and uprisings led to the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and a full-scale war against the ruling Habsburgs of the Austrian Empire.” source: Wikipedia: Ignaz Semmelweis
1865year
Germanymentioned “He also called upon Siebold to arrange a meeting of German obstetricians somewhere in Germany to provide a forum for discussions on puerperal fever, where he would stay "until all have been converted to his theory." In mid-1865, his publ…” source: Wikipedia: Ignaz Semmelweis
15 August 1865exact date
Viennamentioned “Semmelweis was buried in Vienna on 15 August 1865.” source: Wikipedia: Ignaz Semmelweis

Documented at the same place, the same year

Levi StraussUnited States · 1847Frederick DouglassUnited States · 1847

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