1. Joseph Friedrich Weleminsky, was a physician, a scientist and a privatdozent in Hygiene at the German University, Prague who, in the early 20th century, created an alternative treatment for tuberculosis, tuberculomucin Weleminsky.
11 Facts About Friedrich Weleminsky
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Friedrich Weleminsky was born into a Jewish family on 20 January 1868 at Golcuv Jenikov in Bohemia,.
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Friedrich Weleminsky's parents were Jacob Weleminsky, a general medical practitioner in Golcuv Jenikov, and his wife Bertha.
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Friedrich Weleminsky attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden and studied medicine in Prague.
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Friedrich Weleminsky enrolled in the medical faculty of the German University in Prague in 1893 and obtained a habilitation qualification as Dr Med.
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Friedrich Weleminsky was appointed to a teaching post in the university's medical faculty as a privatdozent in Hygiene in July 1900.
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In 1912 Friedrich Weleminsky, who was then second assistant to Ferdinand Hueppe, the head of the Institute for Hygiene at the German University of Prague, published his discovery of a new treatment for tuberculosis, which he named tuberculomucin.
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Friedrich Weleminsky used tuberculomucin Weleminsky to treat cattle which he kept at his country retreat, Schloss Thalheim.
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However, Friedrich Weleminsky fled from Prague in 1939, a couple of weeks before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, and these plans and further development of the treatment ceased.
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Friedrich Weleminsky died of pneumonia on 1 January 1945 at Fulham Hospital, London and is buried at Golders Green Jewish Cemetery.
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Since 2017, Friedrich's granddaughter Judy Weleminsky has been leading this research.