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Peter Madáč (28 February 1729 in Veľká Poloma, now part of
Gemerská Poloma Gemerská Poloma () is a village and large municipality in the Rožňava District. It is located in the Košice Region of middle-eastern Slovakia. History The area of Gemerská Poloma was variously part of Great Moravia and the medieval Kingdom o ...
– 24 November 1805,
Rimavská Sobota Rimavská Sobota (; , ) is a town in southern Slovakia, in the Banská Bystrica Region, on the Rimava river. It has approximately 24,000 inhabitants. The town is a historical capital of Gömör és Kishont County (from 1850 to 1922). Geography ...
) 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 () 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 about 1485 ...
and studied grammar, Latin, and the Catechetism under Tubelu. He studied at the school in
Kežmarok Kežmarok ( or ; , , , ) is a town in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia (population 16,000), on the Poprad River. Prior to World War I, it was in Szepes county in the Kingdom of Hungary. History Settlement at Kežmarok dates back to the Up ...
, in
Levoča Levoča (; ; ) is the principal town of Levoča District in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia, with a population of 14,256. The town has a historic center with a well-preserved town wall, a Gothic architecture, Gothic church with the talle ...
, and in
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, and from 1757 onwards studied medicine in
Wittenberg Wittenberg, officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is the fourth-largest town in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, in the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany. It is situated on the River Elbe, north of Leipzig and south-west of the reunified German ...
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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) () is based in Trnava, in western Slovakia. The university's presence in the town has historical antecedents as the University of Nagyszombat was operating there throughout the 17th and 18th century (present d ...
. {{DEFAULTSORT:Madac, Peter 1729 births 1805 deaths 18th-century Slovak people 18th-century physicians from the Holy Roman Empire Slovak physicians Scientists from the Habsburg Netherlands 18th-century chemists 18th-century writers from the Holy Roman Empire