Plan of tombstone Semmelweis was designed by Albert Schickedanz. Josef Baltzer foreman-builder, mason. 1894 (black ink) Bacteriological research verified Semmelweis’s claims after his death, and even though his disciples carried on with his clinical research and there was no doubt about the…

Patterns from plaster of Semmelweis’s statue and complementary figures in Alajos Stróbl’s (1856–1926) workshop. 1906 (photo) The leading figure of Hungarian sculpture at the turn of the century, Alajos Stróbl used a photography from 1863 for portraying Semmelweis’s figure, putting a book in his…

Postcard of Semmelweis’ first statue in Budapest. 1908 One of the long-term plans of the Semmelweis Memorial Executive Committee, established in 1891, was to commemorate his figure with a public statue installed in the right place. Around 1901 there was already enough money in the international…