[The Viennese physician Ludwig Teleky (1872-1957) and his "History of factory and mine hygiene" (author's transl)].

This article has the intention to show the merits of the Viennese physician Ludwig Teleky (1872-1957). A short introduction characterizes Teleky in the words of Prof. Dr. med. Heinrich Zangger (Zürich), the founder of the "Archiv für Gewerbepathologie und Gewerbehygiene", as one of the most distinguished representatives of modern industrial medicine. His life-work comprises more than 350 treatises, monographs and papers of his pupils. It was realized--in collaboration with his wife--in practical and theoretical research--at three places: Vienna, Düsseldorf and New York. After the period of Vienna, where Teleky's interest was wide-spread to the whole field of social medicine, it focused (since about 1925) upon the problems of industrial medicine (factories, mining and trade). Finally the author analyzes shortly Teleky's latest book entitled "History of Factory and Mine Hygiene", which was written in New York (published 1950). It is mostly a historical review of the state of industrial reality in Germany, Great Britain and in the U.S.A., seen by a most experienced physician of public and industrial health. It also deals with the development in other countries (France, Italy etc.).