Professors of the Medical Faculty at the Royal Hungarian University of Science

Professors of the Medical Faculty at the Royal Hungarian University of Science in 1863. In 1851 Ignaz Semmelweis became a senior physician in the department of obstetrics at Rókus hospital in Pest. Later, in 1855, he began teaching as a Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Pest and simultaneously led the Obstetrics Clinic at Újvilág Street. (Ignaz Semmelweis is fourth from left, top row.)