Illés Trangus (, about 1704 – 11 December 1761) was a Hungarian physician,

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owner, first chief physician () of Gömör and

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Life

As the son of Illés Trangus Sr. (1669–1737), a

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pastor, and Zsuzsanna Katalin Alauda (1676–1733), he was probably born in

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() since his parents lived there at that time but was raised in

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(), and declared himself a Hungarian from Szeben, or Cibinio-Hungarian in Latin. Between 1728 and 1731, he completed his studies at

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), and in his dissertation he discussed the healing of the rich. His first wife was Judit Kruss (1712–1741), his second wife was Erzsébet Mária Raymann (1718–1764), the daughter of János Ádám Raymann, a doctor from

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(). He first lived in

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(), and in the early 1730s he settled in

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, where he founded the Arany Szarvas (Golden Deer) Pharmacy and opened a medical practice. Later his son, Mihály Teofil Gottlieb Trangus became a physician too.

Works

* Dissertatio inauguralis medica de sanatione divitum difficili, quam auspice Deo Propitio Ex Consensu atque Auctoritate Gratiosa Facultatis Medicae in Alma Regia Fridericiana Praeside DN. D. Michaele Alberti Sacr eMaj statiReg aeBoruss caeAulico et Consist. Magdeb. Consiliario, med. et philos. natur. professore publ. ordin. etc. decano H. T. spectatissimo Domino Patrono ac Promotore suo omni honoris cultu prosequando pro licentia summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis doctoralibus legitime impterandis hotis locoque consuetis Anno MDCCXXXI D. Septembr. publicae ac placidae eruditorum ventilationi subjiciet. Halae Magdeburgicae. 1731.

References

{{Reflist 18th-century Hungarian physicians People from Miskolc 1700s births 1761 deaths