Filip Eisenberg
Filip Pinkus Eisenberg (July 19, 1876 – August 18, 1942) was a
Polish-Jewish doctor and bacteriologist
.
Biography
Eisenberg was born on July 19, 1876, in
née
Spiro).
After finishing
Sobieski Gymnasium in Kraków he studied medicine at the Jagiellonian University, where he obtained his PhD in medical studies in 1899. He then conducted postgraduate work in Vienna with Richard Paltauf and between 1901 and 1902 served as a research assistant to Odo Bujwid. Subsequently he worked in Paris, at the Pasteur Institute and then in Wrocław (Breslau) under the direction of Richard Pfeiffer
.
Between 1919 and 1920 he was the head of a military hospital in
Lwów
(Lviv).
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Eisenberg was in constant danger because of his Jewish background. The Polish bacteriologist
Kraków ghetto. From there, in 1942 he was sent to the Belzec extermination camp where he was murdered.[2]
Legacy
The genus Eisenbergiella was named after him.[3]
References
- ^ "Story of Rescue - Weigl Rudolf Stefan | Polscy Sprawiedliwi". sprawiedliwi.org.pl. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
- ISBN 978-0-8050-0348-2.
- ^ "Eisenbergiella". MRGI - Microbiota Research Group of Iran. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
