Erna Lesky

Erna Lesky (22 May 1911 – 17 November 1986) was an Austrian pediatrician and historian of medicine.{{r|risse}} She was the first woman on the medical faculty of the University of Vienna,{{r|seebacher}} and was named as "one of the most illustrious medical historians of the twentieth century" by Owen Harding Wangensteen.{{r|schwarz}}

Life

Lesky was born on 22 May 1911 in Hartberg. After graduating in 1931 from the Graz Academic Gymnasium, she became a medical student at the University of Vienna, and earned her M.D. in 1936. After continued work studying pediatrics with Richard Priesel, and marriage to philologist Albin Lesky in 1939, she worked as a pediatrician during World War II.{{r|risse}}

After the war, she returned to graduate study in history and philology at the University of Vienna. She finished her doctoral dissertation in 1950 and published it in 1951 through the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature, but the official date of her promotion was delayed until 1956. She habilitated in medical history in 1957, and in 1960 became head of the university's Neuburger Institute for the History of Medicine, taking up a chair that had been vacant since the end of the war. She was given a permanent position as a reader in 1962, and promoted to full professor in 1966.{{r|risse}}

She retired as emeritus professor and emeritus director of the institute in 1979,{{r|risse}} and died on 17 November 1986.{{r|gesnerus|premuda}}

Contributions

Much of Lesky's early work in the Institute for the History of Medicine involved rebuilding the institute, both intellectually and physically, after its deterioration during and after World War II. Although her doctoral research had concerned medicine in ancient Greece, her scholarly work from this period shifted in focus to the history of medicine in Austria. She published her first monographs on this topic in the late 1950s.{{r|risse}}

In 1960 she translated an English-language work of Johann Peter Frank into German, and was the editor of an autobiography of Carl von Rokitansky; later she also edited Frank's autobiography, and translated a book of selected works of Frank from German into English. She published three monographs on the Viennese Medical School in 1964, 1965, and 1981, the second of which was translated into English in 1978. Another 1970 monograph concerned Czech physician Jan Evangelista Purkyně, and a monograph from 1979 concerned German phrenologist Franz Joseph Gall.{{r|risse}}

She worked as a de facto editor for the book series Clio Medica beginning in 1964, and served as its official editor from 1970 to 1974.{{r|risse}}

Recognition

Lesky was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1965.{{r|risse}} She became a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 1967, and a full member in 1976.{{r|iahs}} She served as the academy's secretary-general from 1971 to 1973.{{r|risse}}

In 1970 she won the Esculape d'Or of the International Society for the History of Medicine. In 1972 she was given a gold medal by the city of Vienna. In 1973 she was elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and in 1976 she was the winner of the Karl Sudhoff Plakette of the German Society for the History of Medicine. The University of Zurich gave her an honorary doctorate in 1978,{{r|risse}} the first woman to win an honorary doctorate in medicine there based on scholarship rather than humanitarian work.{{r|gesnerus}} In 1981, she won the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine "for significant contributions to the history of medicine",{{r|welch}} and a festschrift was published in honor of her 70th birthday.{{r|risse|schwarz|jarcho|mani}}

Books

Lesky's books included:

Die Zeugungs- und Vererbungslehren der Antike und ihr Nachwirken (1951){{r|zvan}}
Arbeitsmedizin im 18. Jahrhundert: Werksarzt und Arbeiter im Quecksilberbergwerk Idria (1956){{r|a18j}}
Österreichisches Gesundheitswesen im Zeitalter des aufgeklärten Absolutismus (1959){{r|ogz}}
Carl von Rokitansky: Selbstbiographie und Antrittsrede (1960){{r|cvr}}
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis und die Wiener Medizinische Schule (1964){{r|ips}}
Die Wiener medizinische Schule im 19. Jahrhundert (1965);{{r|19j}} translated into English as The Vienna Medical School of the 19th Century (1978){{r|vms}}
Johann Peter Frank: Seine Selbstbiographie (edited, 1969){{r|ss}}
Purkyněs Weg: Wissenschaft, Bildung und Nation (1970){{r|purkyne}}
Gerard van Swieten und seine Zeit (edited with Adam Wandruszka, 1973){{r|gvs}}
Katalog der Josephinischen Bibliothek des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin in Wien (1974){{r|kat}}
Wien und die Weltmedizin (edited, 1974){{r|ww}}
A System of Complete Medical Police: Selections from Johann Peter Frank (edited, 1976){{r|scmp}}
Sozialmedizin: Entwicklung und Selbstverständnis (edited, 1977){{r|sozmed}}
Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828): Naturforscher und Anthropologe (1979){{r|gall}}
''Meilensteine der Wiener Medizin: Grosse Ärzte Österreichs in drei Jahrhunderten (1981){{r|mswm}}

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Reviews of Arbeitsmedizin im 18. Jahrhundert:

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Reviews of Carl von Rokitansky: Selbstbiographie und Antrittsrede:

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| date = October 1960

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Reviews of Franz Joseph Gall:

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| issue = 1

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| jstor = 23632647

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{{citation

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| title = none

| chapter = Erna Lesky, Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), Naturforscher und Anthropologe, Ausgewählte Texte, eingeleitet, übersetzt u. Kommentiert von E. Lesky. Hubers Klassiker der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften 15. Bern, Huber, 1979, 217 pp., gebd. DM 43,-, brosch. DM 32,-

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{{citation

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| title = none

| volume = 35| doi = 10.1093/jhmas/XXXV.3.340

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{{citation

| last = Skopec | first = Manfred

| date = Summer 1983

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{{citation

| last = Koelbing | first = Huldrych M.

| date = November 1987

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| title = Zur Erinnerung an Erna Lesky (22.Mai 1911-17.November 1986)

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Reviews of Gerard van Swieten und seine Zeit:

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| journal = History

| jstor = 24409526

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| jstor = 43553932

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| title = none

| volume = 3

| year = 1976}}

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| issue = 1

| journal = Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze

| pages = 102–106

| title = none

| volume = 1

| year = 1976}}

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| date = December 1975

| issue = 3

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| jstor = 27619430

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| title = none

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| date = Third Quarter 1975

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| title = none

| volume = 59}}

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| date = January 1974

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| series = Clio Medica

| pages = 261–262

| title = none

| chapter = Gerard van Swieten und seine Zeit. Edited by ERNA LESKY and ADAM WANDRUSZKA (Internationales Symposium Veranstaltet von der Universität Wien im Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, 8–10 Mai 1972), Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., 1973 pp., with illus

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| doi = 10.1086/ahr/79.4.1208-a

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| pages = 1208–1209

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| volume = 79}}

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| date = May–June 1977

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| jstor = 27580498

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| title = none

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{{citation

| last = Pogliano | first = Claudio

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| issue = 1

| journal = Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze

| pages = 255–258

| title = none

| volume = 6

| year = 1981}}

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Reviews of Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis und die Wiener Medizinische Schule:

{{citation

| last = Arnstein | first = A.

| date = April 1968

| doi = 10.1017/s0025727300013168

| issue = 2

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| pages = 211

| ref = none

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| jstor = 41109678

| pages = 103, 106

| title = Doctor of mothers

| volume = 9

| year = 1967}}

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| date = October 1965

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| jstor = 24621515

| pages = 422–424

| ref = none

| title = none

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| date = Spring 1966

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| title = Review of Festschrift fur Erna Lesky zum 70. Geburtstag

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Review of Katalog der Josephinischen Bibliothek des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin in Wien:

{{citation

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{{citation

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| chapter = Festschrift für Erna Lesky zum 70. Geburtstag. Herausgegeben von Kurt Ganzinger, Manfred Skopec, Helmut Wyklicky. Wien: Verlag Brüder Hollinek 1981

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Reviews of Meilensteine der Wiener Medizin:

{{citation

| last = Carter | first = K. Codell

| date = October 1982

| doi = 10.1017/s0025727300042137

| issue = 4

| journal = Medical History

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{{citation

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{{citation

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{{citation

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{{citation

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Reviews of Österreichisches Gesundheitswesen im Zeitalter des aufgeklärten Absolutismus:

{{citation

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| date = November 1961

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| last = Rosen | first = George

| date = July 1963

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{{citation

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| page = 460

| title = none

| volume = 67}}

{{citation

| last = Premuda | first = Loris

| chapter = Erna Lesky (1906-1986)

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| series = Clio Medica

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Reviews of Purkyněs Weg:

{{citation

| last = Berg | first = John R.

| date = December 1972

| issue = 4

| journal = Isis

| jstor = 229803

| pages = 589–590

| title = none

| volume = 63| doi = 10.1086/351029

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{{citation

| last = Brožek | first = Josef

| date = May–June 1972

| issue = 3

| journal = Bulletin of the History of Medicine

| jstor = 44450107

| pages = 314–315

| title = none

| volume = 46}}

{{citation

| last = Gebhard | first = Bruno

| date = January 1972

| issue = 1

| journal = Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

| jstor = 24622246

| page = 109

| ref = none

| title = none

| volume = 27}}

{{citation

| last = Probst | first = Christian

| issue = 3

| journal = Sudhoffs Archiv

| jstor = 20775917

| pages = 329–330

| title = none

| volume = 55

| year = 1971}}

{{citation

| last = Winder | first = Marianne

| date = October 1972

| doi = 10.1017/s002572730001807x

| issue = 4

| journal = Medical History

| page = 410

| title = none

| volume = 16| s2cid = 75853751

| doi-access = free

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{{citation

| last = Risse | first = Guenter B.

| date = Winter 1981

| issue = 4

| journal = Bulletin of the History of Medicine

| jstor = 44441422

| pages = 575–580

| title = Erna Lesky and the history of medicine: an essay review (Review of Festschrift für Erna Lesky zum 70, Geburstag, Vienna: Verlag Bruder Hollinek, 1981, 212 pp)

| volume = 55}}

{{citation

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| issue = 3

| journal = Pharmacy in History

| jstor = 41109363

| pages = 120–121

| title = Lesky Festschrift

| volume = 24

| year = 1982}}

Reviews of A System of Complete Medical Police:

{{citation

| last = Albury | first = William Randall

| date = December 1978

| issue = 4

| journal = Isis

| jstor = 231117

| pages = 628–629

| title = none

| volume = 69| doi = 10.1086/352139

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{{citation

| last = King | first = Lester S.

| date = November 1976

| doi = 10.1001/jama.1976.03270230069047

| issue = 22

| journal = JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

| page = 2553

| title = none

| volume = 236| pmc = 1082123

}}

{{citation

| last = Maulitz | first = Russell C.

| date = April 1977

| doi = 10.2307/1850035

| issue = 2

| journal = The American Historical Review

| jstor = 1850035

| pages = 381–382

| title = none

| volume = 82| pmc = 1082123

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{{citation

| last = Rosen | first = George

| date = May–June 1977

| issue = 3

| journal = American Scientist

| jstor = 27847945

| page = 381

| title = none

| volume = 65}}

{{citation

| last = Semple | first = Andrew B.

| date = 16 April 1977

| issue = 6067

| journal = The British Medical Journal

| jstor = 20414082

| page = 1023

| title = Health By compulsion

| volume = 1}}

{{citation

| last = Seebacher | first = Felicitas

| editor-last = Roca Rosell | editor-first = Antoni M.

| contribution = Erna Lesky, general and diplomat: Networking as a power tool for the history of medicine

| isbn = 978-84-9965-108-8

| pages = 208–216

| title = The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010

| year = 2012| publisher = Institut d'Estudis Catalans

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Reviews of Sozialmedizin:

{{citation

| last = Probst | first = Christian

| date = Third Quarter 1979

| issue = 3

| journal = Sudhoffs Archiv

| jstor = 20776613

| pages = 306–307

| title = none

| volume = 63}}

{{citation

| last = Walser | first = Hans H.

| date = November 1979

| doi = 10.1163/22977953-0360102020

| issue = 1–2

| journal = Gesnerus

| pages = 173–174

| title = none

| volume = 36| doi-access = free

}}

Reviews of Johann Peter Frank: Seine Selbstbiographie:

{{citation

| last = Gebhard | first = Bruno

| date = January 1972

| issue = 1

| journal = Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

| jstor = 24622244

| page = 108

| ref = none

| title = none

| volume = 27}}

{{citation

| last = Lauer | first = Hans H.

| issue = 3

| journal = Sudhoffs Archiv

| jstor = 20775835

| page = 332

| title = none

| volume = 54

| year = 1970}}

{{citation

| last = Viseltear | first = Arthur J.

| date = November–December 1970

| issue = 6

| journal = Bulletin of the History of Medicine

| jstor = 44450024

| pages = 590–591

| title = none

| volume = 44}}

Reviews of The Vienna Medical School of the 19th Century:

{{citation

| last = Ackerknecht | first = Erwin H.

| date = November 1978

| doi = 10.1163/22977953-0350102014

| issue = 1–2

| journal = Gesnerus

| pages = 153–154

| title = none

| volume = 35| doi-access = free

}}

{{citation

| last = Franceschini | first = Pietro

| doi = 10.1163/221058778x00064

| issue = 1

| journal = Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze

| pages = 109–114

| title = none

| volume = 3

| year = 1978}}

{{citation

| last = King | first = Lester S.

| date = September 1977

| doi = 10.1001/jama.1977.03280120076027

| issue = 11

| journal = JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

| page = 1184

| title = none

| volume = 238}}

{{citation

| last = Pellegrino | first = Edmund D.

| date = June 1978

| issue = 2

| journal = The Quarterly Review of Biology

| jstor = 2826198

| pages = 146–147

| title = none

| volume = 53| doi = 10.1086/410453

}}

{{citation

| last = Risse | first = Guenter B.

| date = March–April 1978

| issue = 2

| journal = American Scientist

| jstor = 27848625

| page = 255

| title = none

| volume = 66}}

{{citation

| last = Smith | first = Dale C.

| date = October 1978

| issue = 4

| journal = Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

| jstor = 24631612

| page = 558

| title = none

| volume = 33| doi = 10.1093/jhmas/XXXIII.4.558

}}

{{citation

| last = Théodoridés | first = J.

| date = January 1978

| doi = 10.1163/9789004418257_009

| series = Clio Medica

| page = 83

| title = none

| chapter = The Vienna Medical School of the 19th Century. Erna Lesky. Johns Hopkins University Press 1976, 604 p., 100 figs

| volume = 13| isbn = 9789004418257

}}

{{citation

| last = van Helden | first = Albert

| date = January 1979

| doi = 10.1017/s0067237800012935

| journal = Austrian History Yearbook

| pages = 399–401

| title = none

| volume = 15| s2cid = 145166826

}}

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Reviews of Wien und die Weltmedizin: