Josef von Fodor de Galánta (Hungarian:galántai Fodor József; 16 July 1843 – 19 March 1901) was a Hungarian professor of hygiene at the University of Buda-Pesth and pioneer of public health.
Josef's father was Galántai Fodor Antal[Hu] and his mother was Mary Picha. He had a daughter, Margit Fodor who married Zsigmond Gerlóczy.[citation needed]
He studied medicine at Buda-Pesth, Vienna, and Munich and was awarded Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Buda-Pesth on 19 October 1865.[1] He completed a degree as a master of ophthalmology and obstetrics, and on 17 July 1866 he completed a degree in surgery.
Around 1870, von Fodor took aWanderjahr with the support of a state grant to visit the largest cities of Europe (Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, England) to study their hygiene practices.[1][2]
Professor von Fodor made significant contributions in teaching hygiene, investigating the connection between public health and conditions of water and air, and also studied many other projects including disinfectants and the effects ofcarbon monoxide, which he introduced the first quantitative analytical method for determiningcarboxyhemoglobin saturation.[3][4][5] Professor von Fodor was among the first to demonstrate the spread oftyphoid through water.[2] In 1886 he reported thein vivo bactericidal activity of the blood, concluding that the organism was protected against the spread of bacteria by an unknown vital power of blood, and in 1887 he demonstratedin vitro that whole blood is able to reduceanthrax bacilli.[6]
It has also been suggested Prof. von Fodor was the first to suggest establishing a National Institute for Public Health and a Regional Institute of Public Health and Epidemiology.[2]
As the Chair of Hygiene, Professor von Fodor influenced sanitation reform throughout Hungary.[1]
In 1885, Professor von Fodor played a key role in founding the Institution of School of Medical Officers, and established the Hungarian National Health Association withLajos Markusovszky.[1]
He served as editor of the Bulletin of the Society of Public Health "Health" from 1887, and edited a section of the Hungarian Medical Journal called Public Health and Forensic Medicine. Professor von Fodor was regarded as a pioneer of modern public health.[2]
1909 - on 29 August 1909 the National Public Health Association erected a bronze bust ( the work of György Vastagh Jr. ) in the capital, in the VIII. district Gutenberg Square, with the inscription “First Apostle of Our Public Health” engraved on the sculpture foundation. In Kaposvár, a full-length bronze statue, in its native village, Lakócsa, Somogy county, also a bust and a memorial plaque mark the memory of the famous native of the village.
1869 - About outside toilet systems with regard to domestic conditions, especially of Pest, 1869
1873 - Sanitary Administration in England / Public health in England with regard to the situation of medicine, health regulations, forensic medicine and the conditions in Hungary.[1]
1875 - on soil and soil gases
1877 - Healthy houses and dwellings
1878 - Das gesunde Haus und die gesunde Wohnung. Braunschweig,
1878 - Official report on the universal exhibition held in Paris in 1878 III
1879 - The Public Health. Bp
1880 - Das Kohlenoxyd vom hygienischen Standpunkt. Pest. med. chir. Presse, Budapest, 1880, xvi, 42[9]
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