Peter Madáč (28 February 1729 in Veľká Poloma, now part of
Gemerská Poloma
Gemerská Poloma ( hu, Veszverés) is a village and large municipality in the Rožňava District in the Košice Region of middle-eastern Slovakia.
History
The area of Gemerská Poloma was variously part of Great Moravia and the medieval Kingdom of ...
– 24 November 1805,
Rimavská Sobota
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) was a
Slovak doctor, chemist, and professional writer and publicist. His father Juraj Madáč was a farmer from Veľká Poloma.
Peter Madáč obtained a basic education from the local Catholic school, and later studied in Horná Slaná and Patakiho Olácha. In 1743 he arrived in
Štítnik
Štítnik ( hu, Csetnek) is a village and municipality in the Rožňava District in the Košice Region of middle-eastern Slovakia.
Geography
The village lies at an altitude of 345 metres and covers an area of 34.54 km².
It has a population of abo ...
and studied grammar, Latin, and the Catechetism under Tubelu. He studied at the school in
Kežmarok
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, in
Levoča
Levoča (; hu, Lőcse; rue, Левоча)
is a town in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia with a population of 14,700. The town has a historic center with a well preserved town wall, a Gothic church with the highest wooden altar in the wo ...
, and in
Debrecen
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, and from 1757 onwards studied medicine in
Wittenberg
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,
Leipzig
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, and
Berlin
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.
Madáč laid the foundations of public health in Liptov in Malohont and also prepared a proposal for the training of midwives. His thesis on the regeneration of blood vessels and work on a chemical reaction earned him a medical degree from the
University of Trnava
The University of Trnava (in Trnava) ( sk, Trnavská univerzita v Trnave) is one of the oldest universities in Slovakia. It is based in Trnava, in the west of Slovakia.
Historical university
The original Jesuit university was founded in 1635 by ...
.
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1729 births
1805 deaths
18th-century Slovak people
18th-century physicians
Slovak physicians