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Apr 05, 1868 Prague, Czech Republic Died on 07 Jan 1943 (aged 74)
Austrian radiologist
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About Leopold Freund
- Leopold Freund (April 5, 1868 – January 7, 1943) was an Austrian-Jewish radiologist, considered the founder of medical radiology and radiotherapy. Leopold Freund was born in Miskovice in Central Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, now part of the Czech Republic.
- He died in Brussels in 1943. Freund was a professor of radiology at the Medical University of Vienna and is considered the founder of medical radiology and radiotherapy.
- He is the first physician known to have used ionizing radiation for therapeutic purposes.
- In 1896, a year after the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen and in the same year that Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity, Freund successfully treated a five-year-old patient in Vienna suffering from hairy moles covering her whole back.
- The case was published by the girl's local physician, Schiff, in 1901.
- In 1903, he published the first textbook on radiation therapy.Freund also published fundamental work on the treatment occupational diseases with light and on the use of X-rays for testing construction materials. Freund, who was a Jew, emigrated in 1938 to Belgium, following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.
