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Previous | Home | NextKitaibel, an independent discoverer of tellurium, was a professor of botany at Budapest, but was associated with the medical school, at this time at the northwest corner of Semmelweis utca and Kossuth Lajos utca (“utca” = “street” in Hungarian). Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865) was the famous Hungarian physician who realized that puerperal fever (“childbed fever”) which was claiming the lives of mothers could be prevented by instituting policies of cleanliness. This was before Pasteur’s germ theory of diseases. Semmelweis utca was known as Újvilág utca at the time of Kitaibel.
