Leopold Wittelschöfer

Leopold Wittelschöfer, Austrian physician; born at Nagykanizsa, Hungary, July 14 1818; died at Vienna 8 January 1889; educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1841). After practising medicine for ten years in Raab, Hungary, he moved to Vienna (1851) and became editor of the "Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift," to which periodical he contributed many essays. He was the author also of "Wiener Heil- und Humanitätsanstalten," Vienna, 1856.