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I was born in Vienna. My father came from Várpalota, my uncle became a rabbi in Kecskemét in 1890. I was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1914.
Birth name
Bárány Róbert
Born
1876-04-22, Vienna
Deceased
1936-04-08, Uppsala
Education
University of Vienna
Profession
Medicine
Awards
Nobel Prize in Medicine
His father, Ignác Bárány, came from a Jewish family in Várpalota and emigrated to Vienna before his son's birth, where he worked as a bank clerk. His mother, Maria Hock, was the daughter of a well-known scholar from Prague. Róbert was the eldest of their six children. During his childhood, he contracted bone tuberculosis, which left his knee joint permanently stiff. Despite this, it did not prevent him from regularly playing tennis or climbing mountains.
In 1900, he earned his medical degree from the University of Vienna, after which he pursued studies in internal medicine and psychiatry in Frankfurt, Heidelberg, and Freiburg. From 1905, he worked at the otolaryngology clinic of the Vienna Medical University under Adam Politzer, the founder of Austrian otology. In recognition of his work, he was appointed as a lecturer in 1909.Bárány's entire career essentially took place at the intersection of otology and neurology. The Bárány chair, which he developed, is still used today in the treatment of motion sickness, pilot training, and balance assessment.
The Dohány Street synagogue is one of Budapest’s touristic highlights as it is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world. The synagogue was built in 1859 in the Moorish style and it can seat 3000 people. Its huge size demonstrates the significance and the high economic and cultural standards of the Budapest Jewry of the age.
The temple was designed by Ludwig Förster (1797-1863), a German architect, professor of the Vienna Academy. The clerk of works was the architect Ignác Wechselmann (1828-1903) who later bequeathed his entire wealth to the Institute of the Blind. After Förster left, Frigyes Feszl, the famous architect of the Budapest Vigadó designed the temple’s inner sanctum. The official consecration of the synagogue took place on 6 September 1859. The interior of the synagogue is 1200 square metres, the towers are 44 metres high. There are 1497 seats for men downstairs and 1472 for women in the galleries, altogether the seating capacity of the flat-ceilinged inner space is nearly 3000 people.
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